What was the IP address you'd set on the camera, and what is the IP address set on the specific PoE channel that you connected the camera to?
What is the status of the PoE channel as seen via the NVR web GUI after the camera is plugged in?
What is the PoE status of the PoE channel as seen via the VGA/HDMI interface when the camera is plugged in?
Thanks for the help! I tried several different IP addresses. Try to bear with me as I ramble on, I tried many different things.
The IPs of the cameras on the NVR are 192.168.188.X. I set the camera to dhcp (using the sadp tool), then set the port to plug n play on the nvr. It looked like it set the static IP in the camera to 192.168.188.29. Then I'd switch it to manual in the NVR, input the username/password, but I'd get a weird error "IP Camera Exception." After removing the IP camera from the NVR and plugging it back into my lan (with a poe injector), the sadp tool would show 192.168.188.29. I then set it back to dhcp (via the sadp tool) on the lan so it'd work. I also tried plugging the camera in with the static IP of 192.168.188.29 and setting it to manual on the NVR but no luck. For another try I even plugged in my laptop directly into the NVR, gave it a static IP of 192.168.188.99 and ran the sadp tool. The odd thing is I would see the IP of the camera showing up and disappearing regularly, and I could never directly connect to the camera via the IP address when directly plugged into the NVR. It acted very strangely. At one point it showed some strange IP address, that I changed via SADP tool, but I was able to update it to the expected 192.168.188.29. However, with the camera plugged directly into my LAN's switch, and an IP of 192.168.1.226, and inputting that into the NVR, it connects and works right away and acts 100% normally.
When you say status of the PoE channel do you mean the power status (as in the power it's drawing) or the little icon? The status via the VGA/HDMI monitor off the NVR is "IP Camera Exception" from the little exclamation point. I think one time I got "Network Abnormal" as well, but that might have been when I was screwing around. I can't remember the status from the WEB/GUI it was either ip camera exception or some other error. It would constantly try to reconnect.