Energy efficient policies are being applied to network protocols, devices andclassical network management systems. Researchers have already studied in depth each ofthose fields, including for instance a long monitoring processes of various number ofindividual ICT equipment from where power models are constructed. With the developmentof smart meters and emerging protocols such as SNMP and NETCONF, currently there is anopen field to couple the power models, translated to the expected behavior, with the realtime energy measurements. The goal is to derive a comparison on the power data betweenboth of the processes in the direction of detection for possible deviations on the expectedresults. The logical assumption is that a fault in the usage of a particular device will not onlyincrease its own energy usage, but also may cause additional consumption on the otherdevices part of the network. A platform is developed to monitor and analyze the retrievedpower data of a simulated enterprise ICT infrastructure. Moreover, smart algorithms aredeveloped which are aware of the different states that are occurring on each device duringtheir typical use phase, as well as to detect and isolate possible anomalies. The producedresults are obtained and validated with the use of Cisco switches and routers, Dell Precisionstations and Raritan PDU as part of the monitored infrastructure.
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