Hi

Apart from the obvious fact that the blade could be broken (and I guess you 
will have to open a case for this in our GTAC), I would recommend you to check 
also your electrical supply. By experience, I do know that peaks, instabilities 
and noise on the electrical network can severely affect PoE subsystems so, 
check if for example in this blade there is a device attached with a different 
ground / earth than the rest of the installation or things like that.

Hope this helps

Francisco García
Technical Director Southern EMEA
Enterasys Networks
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From: Mark Lamond [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: viernes, 06 de marzo de 2009 1:52
To: Enterasys Customer Mailing List
Subject: [enterasys] POE Controller Reset on DFE

Hi there,

I wonder if anyone has had issues with the POE controller resets on DFE blades?

We have an N5 chassis with the following blades:

Slot    Model             Serial #              Versions
------  ----------------  --------------------  -------------------------
1       7G4202-30         XXXXXXXXXXXX          Hw: 0
                                                Bp: 01.00.15
                                                Fw: 06.11.01.0040
2       7H4385-49         XXXXXXXXXXXX          Hw: 0
                                                Bp: 01.00.15
                                                Fw: 06.11.01.0040
3       7H4385-49         XXXXXXXXXXXX          Hw: 0
                                                Bp: 01.00.15
                                                Fw: 06.11.01.0040
5       7H4385-49         XXXXXXXXXXXX          Hw: 0
                                                Bp: 01.00.19
                                                Fw: 06.11.01.0040


The POE controller on blade 5 keeps resetting, interrupting power to our 
phones. These resets happen at random, we can go for months then have a couple 
of resets the same day. We've had these problems for some time now.

Data flow on the blade is not interrupted and we have no entries in the error 
log, we simply loose POE. The blade has already been replaced, which points 
towards something site specific, I've a few ideas.

I've noticed that you now have "show port cablestatus" on the SecureStack 
series but there does not seem to be an equivalent on the DFE?

Is there any way we can find out why the POE controller decides to reset?

The only way we can think of narrowing this down is to gradually move devices 
connected to that blade, to another and see if the fault moves, gradually 
eliminating the cause. However, because of the random nature of the fault this 
could take many months to narrow things down.

We have about 20 devices drawing power, and the power usage of each device 
tallies up with the device type.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Mark Lamond




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