Description

During lab testing of Dynamic Power Management (DPM) on an MX10004 chassis, the customer observed that the line card - JNP10K-LC9600 - failed to power on correctly after enabling the "set chassis mic-aware-power-management" command.

 

The chassis was rebooted after committing the command, as per the instructions provided in the Juniper documentation.

 

Post-reboot, the line card appeared to be stuck in a non-functional or "limbo" state.

 

Hostname: jtac-mx10004-r2003-re0

Model: mx10004

Junos: 23.4R2-S5.6 

 

FPC 0      REV 38  750-114437  XXXXXXXX     JNP10K-LC9600

FPC 1      REV 24  750-084779  XXXXXXXX     JNP10K-LC2101

 

Symptoms

#Before applying the "mic-aware-power-management" knob

labroot@jtac-mx10004-r2003-re0> show chassis power detail

...

System:

 Zone 0:

    Capacity:     11000 W (maximum 11000 W)

    Allocated power:  6297 W (4703 W remaining)

    Actual usage:   2100 W

 Total system capacity: 11000 W (maximum 11000 W)

 Total remaining power: 4703 W


Item         Used(W)     Max(W)

 FPC 0         473      1770                     


Item         Used(W)             

 FPC 1         748                       



#After applying the "mic-aware-power-management" knob

labroot@jtac-mx10004-r2003-re0# show |compare

[edit]

+ chassis {

+   mic-aware-power-management;

+ } 

 

 

labroot@jtac-mx10004-r2003-re0> restart chassis-control  

Chassis control process started, pid 24062 

 

labroot@jtac-mx10004-r2003-re0> show chassis fpc  

               Temp CPU Utilization (%)  CPU Utilization (%) Memory  Utilization (%)

Slot State      (C) Total Interrupt   1min  5min  15min DRAM (MB) Heap   Buffer

 0 Present     Testing

 1 Online      44   19     0    18   17   10  3168    21     30         

 


labroot@jtac-mx10004-r2003-re0> show chassis power detail

...

System:

 Zone 0:

    Capacity:     11000 W (maximum 11000 W)

    Allocated power:  3777 W (7223 W remaining)

    Actual usage:   1705 W

 Total system capacity: 11000 W (maximum 11000 W)

 Total remaining power: 7223 W


Item         Used(W)     Max(W)

 FPC 0          0        0               


Item         Used(W)

 FPC 1         773                       

  

Solution

Dynamic Power Management (DPM) is enabled by default on the MX10004 platform starting with Junos OS release 22.3R1. Since the MX10004 chassis supports only fixed line cards, MIC-aware power management is not applicable. Therefore, enabling mic-aware-power-management is unnecessary and may lead to unexpected behavior.


To resolve the issue:

*] Do not enable the mic-aware-power-management command on MX10004.

*] If already enabled, remove the configuration and reboot the chassis to restore normal operation.

Modification History

2025-11-10 : Article Created