Monday, January 14, 2013

Brocade PoE: "Power disabled on port X/X/X because of PD overload"

I got a call from a customer today about the new Brocade ICX 6430 switch I put in not long ago.  He was telling me that they were having power issues on those phones, and that the phones would boot up, loose power, then boot back up again only to just reboot continuously.  Well, that's not good.  So, I consoled into the switch and found this issue right off: ' PoE: Power disabled on port 1/1/6 because of PD overload".  Well, I then did a 'show inline power' only to find that I did not have enough power on the ports where the Cisco 7945 phones where connected to.  Well, I have to say that was my fault.  I ran the power down to category 2 (7000mW) instead of the default category 3 (15000mW).  I have a habit of doing this when I think we dont need that kind of power on the ports, to save power availability.  However, in this case, this bit me.  Anyway, I just ran the power back up on those ports where the IP phones were connected and all was good again.

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