Chapter 7 Environmental Monitoring And Power Management; Understanding Environmental Monitoring - Cisco 4500M Software Manual

Environmental Monitoring and Power
Management
Before reading this chapter, read the "Preparing for Installation" section of the
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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 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:
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For complete syntax and usage information for the switch commands used in this chapter, refer to the
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Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS Command Reference and related publications at
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/index.htm.

Understanding Environmental Monitoring

This section contains the following subsections:
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Environmental monitoring of chassis components provides early warning indications of possible
component failure. This warning helps you to ensure the safe and reliable operation of your system and
avoid network interruptions.
This section describes how to monitor critical system components so that you can identify and rapidly
correct hardware-related problems.
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Understanding Environmental Monitoring, page 7-1
Power Management, page 7-3
Using CLI Commands to Monitor your Environment, page 7-2
System Alarms, page 7-2
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