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What are commands dealing with PoE on a M4100 type switch
I would like to power-manage devices connected to the switch, e.g. turn them off for the night. I wanted to write a CRON job (I'm assuming the switch in question is running CRON) which would do th...
Hi velis,
I have inquired your concern to a higher tier of NETGEAR Support. I'm afraid to inform you that it is not possible to do what you require unfortunately. Via the CLI access, it is only possible to run commands capable of applying/editing changes to the configuration of the switch not any changes to the OS of the switch.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
I'm already managing both of the suggestions.
However, I need a bit more power:
I need to periodically run a script that would check a few things and if needed, reset the port affected. TBH, I just need to ping to see if the device is still alive on the other side and then reset it if it's not. That's the gist of it.
I don't know if a CRON job is even a possibility: I have seen that the switch supports SSH connections, but I'm not sure that would give me a "standard" unix prompt. Will check during one of the next steps. Anyway, the manual I linked to mentions a different way of executing scripts and I'm not sure those can even be scheduled. So far I have only seen manual execution instructions.
I have also seen some timer & scheduling in the HTML interface, but that can only be set up for running once a day. I need a check as often as 5 minutes.
Hi velis,
I have inquired your concern to a higher tier of NETGEAR Support. I'm afraid to inform you that it is not possible to do what you require unfortunately. Via the CLI access, it is only possible to run commands capable of applying/editing changes to the configuration of the switch not any changes to the OS of the switch.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
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