I seem to have an odd issue with this brand new switch that I purchased a couple weeks ago. I am using this switch for IP Cameras and other PoE and PoE+ devices and so far everything appears to be working as expected (still staging equipment/cameras). I currently have 4 (had 6 at one point) PoE cameras connected to the switch and they all came online/active ports 0 issues. Port 1 is being used as an up-link to another switch and that port is working fine. When I logged in via the GUI, I decided to test the reboot feature, I found the button, clicked reboot, and the switch appears to reboot (first time I did this, I was logged in remotely). After a few minutes, the switch wasn't replying to pings, so I gave it some more time...nothing. When I got back on site, I noticed that all of the IP Camera ports were blinking/on and my up-link port was not active. I unplugged the cable and tried another port, it turned on and i noticed the replies come back on the local computer I was using to ping. I tried putting the cable back in the original port and this time it turned on immediately. I tried a few other random ports, initially they didn't come on, but after taking the cable out and re-inserting the port became active. This was odd/not normal, so I assumed that it was just a bad cable. I tried another cable...same issue, but it is still random, sometimes the port will work, other times it won't (even when trying other random ports). I moved the IP Cameras from the right side ports to the far left side (where I noticed the problem) and they all came online right away. This got me thinking that maybe my cisco switch is good, my cables are good, but maybe the port I am using on the other switch is bad, so I swapped ports on that switch (went from port 5 to port 4) and I noticed the same thing. When I go back, I want to either try replacing the switching that the cisco is plugging into, to see if that switch is starting to go on me (although, everything else that is plugged into that switch is working fine) and I also want to try plugging in my laptop in all the cisco ports to rule out the switch I am connecting the cisco switch to. If my laptop doesn't light up then I have to assume I have a bad cisco switch or there is something in the cisco switch settings that is not allowing that port to turn on.
The PoE devices are only grabbing 5-6 watts of power, each, I don't think that has anything to do with it. While writing this message I had someone at that location unplug the cable (lights were off on the cisco switch port) and plug it back in and it came back online. I still need to do some more testing, but I wanted to start this discussion to see if anyone else has experienced this issue, before.
Thanks.
