[c-nsp] 6500/7600 "reserved" power for secondary sups

[Ian Cox]

At 03:28 PM 3/3/2006 -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Is there a way to disable the automatically reserved power for a secondary
>supervisor on the 6500/7600s? For example:

No.

>system power redundancy mode = redundant
>system power total =     2331.00 Watts (55.50 Amps @ 42V)
>system power used =      1280.53 Watts (30.49 Amps @ 42V)
>system power available = 1050.47 Watts (25.01 Amps @ 42V)
>                         Power-Capacity PS-Fan Output Oper
>PS   Type               Watts   A @42V Status Status State
>---- ------------------ ------- ------ ------ ------ -----
>1    WS-CAC-2500W       2331.00 55.50  OK     OK     on
>2    WS-CAC-2500W       2331.00 55.50  OK     OK     on
>                         Pwr-Requested  Pwr-Allocated  Admin Oper
>Slot Card-Type          Watts   A @42V Watts   A @42V State State
>---- ------------------ ------- ------ ------- ------ ----- -----
>1    WS-X6704-10GE       295.26  7.03   295.26  7.03  on    on
>3    WS-X6748-SFP        328.44  7.82   328.44  7.82  on    on
>5    WS-SUP720-3BXL      328.44  7.82   328.44  7.82  on    on
>6    (Redundant Sup)       -     -      328.44  7.82  -     -
>
>Under slot 6, the system is reserving power for 328.44 watts (the same as
>the primary sup720-3bxl), but there is no card in slot 6, nor has there
>ever been.

This is by design. We need to be able to handle the case of plugging 
in a redundant supervisor and having it power up. You can place your 
line card into the redundant supervisor slot.



Ian

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