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Enabling and disabling poe – Allied Telesis AT-8100 Series User Manual

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Chapter 11: Power Over Ethernet

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Enabling and Disabling PoE

Enabling PoE on ports allows the switch to supply power to PDs
connected to the ports. In order for PDs to receive power, PoE must be
enabled on the ports. By default, PoE is enabled on all the ports on the
PoE switch.

The switch detects whether or not a network device connected to the port
is a valid PD. If the device is not a valid PD, the port functions as a regular
Ethernet port even when PoE is enabled on the port. The PoE feature
remains activated on the port, but no power is delivered to the device.

Disabling PoE on the port turns off the power supply to the port. You may
want to disable PoE on the ports used only for data traffic in order to
prevent them from unauthorized power use.

There are two ways to disable and enable PoE:

Globally: all the ports on the switch or switches in the stack at a
time.

Individually: on a port basis.

To enable PoE globally, use the SERVICE POWER-INLINE command in
the Global Configuration mode. See “SERVICE POWER-INLINE” on
page 287. T
he NO SERVICE POWER-INLINE command disables PoE on
all the ports on the switch, or all switches in the stack. See “NO SERVICE
POWER-INLINE” on page 278.

To enable PoE on an individual port basis, use the POWER-INLINE
ENABLE command in the Port Interface mode. See “POWER-INLINE
ENABLE” on page 282. Th
e NO POWER-INLINE command disables PoE
on a port. See “NO POWER-INLINE ENABLE” on page 274.

This example enables PoE globally:

awplus> enable
awplus# configure terminal
awplus(config)# service power-inline

This example disables PoE globally:

awplus> enable
awplus# configure terminal
awplus(config)# no service power-inline