Pulling port PoE consumption at different intervals

[N1234]

I have a network with a large number of PoE devices, and I am wanting to gather data to see how much power the AP's / phones are using.

Im looking for a way to grab the current poe power usage at a given time and log them. This way I can find the average usage per device.

Does such a thing exist already? can a script be created to do this?

[Inderdeep]

@N1234 : I dont think we have any API call or script on that. 

Rest you can check the below link and see LLDP packet captures in example 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Other_Topics/Troubleshooting_PoE_on_MS_switches

[sungod]

Switch port PoE use is one of the things we report for our customers.

Use this call  https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-device-switch-ports-statuses

Port PoE usage is reported as Watt-hours consumed over the timespan specified when making the call.

So if you want average power usage over period T, set the timespan to T and normalise to Watts by Wh/T (with T in hours).

Note that this call doesn't use a t1 parameter, so whether you use t0 or timespan it will always return data looking back from the time of the call. I just run it daily at the same time to build up long term stats.

Afaik switch PoE budgets still aren't visible, but it's simple enough to use a look-up table, just need to remember to add new switches to the table when they are released.