power over ethernet (POE)

[tofkamp]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
My company bought 10 switches with POE, and now I want to manage them, but I could not find the Power Over Ethernet commands

Describe the solution you'd like
Have a resource for control, and maybe a datasource of a POE interface

Documentation
(https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/PoE-Out)

Additional context
This is not so common. If you don't have access to a POE switch, I can give you some sample data.

[durandguru]

You can already define POE settings on interfaces. See https://registry.terraform.io/providers/terraform-routeros/routeros/latest/docs/resources/interface_ethernet I use this to enable/disable POE on an interface. Is there something else missing?

[vaerh]

@durandguru Thanks, I was going to answer the same thing!

@tofkamp Can you please tell me what you expect to see in the data source?

[tofkamp]

Thank you for pointing that out. I will use that.

For the datasource, you might be able to get the voltage, current and power. I think the power is the most important one. With this datasource, we could detect if something is connected (using power), and then config it in a way.
On the webpage I provided, you can find the term "poe-out-voltage". If it is difficult to implement, don't bother.

[vaerh]

Perhaps it makes sense to create a data source with a single field that specifies whether or not there is power consumption?