Enable Energy Saver Globally

About this task

Perform this procedure to enable Energy Saver globally on the switch. You can optionally configure PoE power savings, to power off low priority PoE devices during off-peak times.

Before you begin

  • You must enable Energy Saver on individual ports.

  • You must create an Energy Saver schedule.

Procedure

  1. Enter Global Configuration mode:

    enable

    configure terminal

  2. Optional: Configure PoE power savings:

    energy-saver poe-power-saving

    Note

    Note

    You must configure PoE power savings before you enable Energy Saver globally.

  3. Enable Energy Saver:

    energy-saver enable

Example

Switch:1>enable
Switch:1#configure terminal 
Switch:1(config)#energy-saver poe-power-saving
Switch:1(config)#energy-saver enable

Variable Definitions

The following table defines parameters for the energy-saver command.

Variable

Value

enable

Enables Energy Saver feature. The default is disabled.

poe-power-saving

Enables PoE power saving. The default is disabled.