Discovering an equipment power connection relationship

A computer usable program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium including computer usable code for discovering a relationship between an equipment and an electrical power outlet, the computer usable code when executed causes a computer to:

• monitor for a period, a workload executing on the equipment, the monitoring resulting in a monitoring data pattern;
• search a metering data associated with a first power outlet in a plurality of power outlets, the metering data representing electrical power drawn from a power outlet over the period;
• determine whether the monitoring data pattern matches with a pattern in the metering data associated with the first power outlet, wherein the monitoring data pattern matches with the pattern in the metering data when at least one aspect of at least one combination of a peak and a valley in the monitoring data pattern matches with a comparable aspect of at least one combination of a peak and a valley in the pattern in the metering data;
• responsive to determining a match, form a relationship between the equipment and the first power outlet, whereby the first power outlet is known to supply electrical power to the equipment, wherein when a set of distinctive characteristics in the monitoring data cannot be determined over the period, further comprising:
• monitoring an operation of the equipment to produce a benchmark set of data over a benchmark period in a test environment;
• selecting the period such that the period is of the same length as the benchmark period;
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• use the benchmark data as the monitoring data for determining the match with the metering data associated with the first power outlet;
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• use the relationship information to adjust power supply from the first power outlet to the equipment.

A data processing system for discovering a relationship between an equipment and an electrical power outlet, the data processing system comprising:

• a storage device, wherein the storage device stores computer usable program code;
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• a processor, wherein the processor executes the computer usable program code, and wherein the computer usable program code comprises:
• computer usable code for monitoring for a period, a workload executing on the equipment, the monitoring resulting in a monitoring data pattern;
• computer usable code for searching a metering data associated with a first power outlet in a plurality of power outlets, the metering data representing electrical power drawn from a power outlet over the period;
• computer usable code for determining whether the monitoring data pattern matches with a pattern in the metering data associated with the first power outlet, wherein the monitoring data pattern matches with the pattern in the metering data when at least one aspect of at least one combination of a peak and a valley in the monitoring data pattern matches with a comparable aspect of at least one combination of a peak and a valley in the pattern in the metering data;
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• computer usable code for responsive to determining a match, forming a relationship between the equipment and the first power outlet, whereby the first power outlet is known to supply electrical power to the equipment, wherein when a set of distinctive characteristics in the monitoring data cannot be determined over the period, further comprising:
• computer usable code for monitoring an operation of the equipment to produce a benchmark data over a benchmark period in a test environment;
• computer usable code for selecting the period such that the period is of the same length as the benchmark period;
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• computer usable code for using the benchmark data as the monitoring data for determining the match with the metering data associated with the first power outlet.