Enable Perpetual PoE on a Port

About this task

Perform this procedure to enable Perpetual PoE on a specific copper port of the switch. After you enable Perpetual PoE, you must save the running configuration file.

Procedure

  1. Enter GigabitEthernet Interface Configuration mode:

    enable

    configure terminal

    interface GigabitEthernet {slot/port[/sub-port][-slot/port[/sub-port]][,...]}

  2. Enable Fast PoE on the copper port:

    poe perpetual-poe-enable [port {slot/port[/sub-port][-slot/port[/sub-port]][,...]}]

  3. Save the configuration file:

    save config

Variable Definitions

The following table defines parameters for the fast-poe-enable command.

Variable

Value

port {slot/port[/sub-port] [-slot/port[/sub-port]] [,...]}

Specifies the port or ports to be configured.