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

Enter Global Configuration mode:

enable

configure terminal
Optional: Configure PoE power savings:

energy-saver poe-power-saving

Note

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