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Environmental Monitoring and Power Management
Note Before reading this chapter, read the “Preparing for Installation” section of the
Catalyst 4500 Series Installation Guide. It is important to ensure that your installation site has enough
power and cooling to accommodate the additional electrical load and heat introduced by Power over
Ethernet (PoE).
This chapter describes power management and environmental monitoring features in the Catalyst 4500
series switches. It provides guidelines, procedures, and configuration examples.
This chapter consists of the following major sections:
About Environmental Monitoring, page 10-1
Power Management, page 10-6
IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet, page 10-22
Note For complete syntax and usage information for the switch commands used in this chapter, look at the
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Command Reference and related publications at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/index.html
If the command is not found in the Catalyst 4500 Command Reference, it is located in the larger Cisco
IOS library. Refer to the Cisco IOS Command Reference and related publications at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/index.html

About Environmental Monitoring

This section contains the following subsections:
Using CLI Commands to Monitor your Environment, page 10-2
Displaying Environment Conditions, page 10-2
Emergency Actions, page 10-3
System Alarms, page 10-4