Activate or Deactivate Energy Saver Manually

About this task

Perform this procedure to activate or deactivate Energy Saver on the switch at any time. Energy Saver is deactivated by default.

Activating Energy Saver reduces the port speed to the minimum value supported by the switch and enables PoE power saving, even if PoE is globally disabled. Deactivating Energy Saver restores the previous configuration.

Before you begin

Before you can change any previously saved Energy Saver settings, you must disable Energy Saver globally.

Procedure

Enter Privileged EXEC mode:

enable
Activate or deactivate Energy Saver:

energy-saver {activate | deactivate}

Example

Switch:1 enable

Activate Energy Saver:

Switch:1# energy-saver activate

Deactivate Energy Saver:

Switch:1# energy-saver deactivate

Variable Definitions

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


Variable	Value
activate	Activates Energy Saver manually.
deactivate	Deactivates Energy Saver manually.