Just a quick one today. Ever so often, you need to check the status of a the power supplies in a switch or router. That information is nestled snugly in the show environment command. I’ll give you the proper syntax and results for a few different platforms.
Example 1. Cisco 2611XM running Cisco IOS Software, C2600 Software (C2600-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(13a), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
SLAP1#show environment
Power Supply:
Redundant Power System is not present.
Board Temperature:
normal.
Example 2. Cisco 7206XVR running Cisco IOS Software, 7200 Software (C7200-SPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(15)T1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
SLAP2#show environment all
Power Supplies:
Power Supply 1 is AC Power Supply. Unit is on.
Power Supply 2 is AC Power Supply. Unit is off.
Temperature readings:
NPE Inlet measured at 31C/87F
NPE Outlet measured at 36C/96F
Voltage readings:
+3.45 V measured at +3.45 V
+5.15 V measured at +5.21 V
+12.15 V measured at +12.24 V
-11.95 V measured at -11.81 V
Envm stats saved 3 time(s) since reload
Example 3. Cisco Catalyst 2960 running Cisco IOS Software, C2960 Software (C2960-LANBASEK9-M), Version 12.2(37)SE1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
SLAP3#show env power
POWER is OK
SLAP3#show env all
FAN is OK
TEMPERATURE is OK
POWER is OK
RPS is NOT PRESENT
A quick note on the output of the Catalyst 2960. show env power only shows the status of the built-in power supply. If you are using an RPS on this system, you need to use show env all to get the RPS status, as well.

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