Description

The firmware alarm started immediately following the Junos upgrade to 25.4R1 or 25.4R1 based service releases, but the current show system firmware output shows all firmware components as OK, and available firmware versions are 0.

Symptoms

The firmware alarm started immediately following the Junos upgrade to 25.4R1 or 25.4R1 based service releases, but the current show system firmware output shows all firmware components as OK, and available firmware versions are 0.

> show chassis alarms

1 alarm currently active

Alarm time        Class Description

2026-09-16 22:02:27 CST Minor RE 0 firmware outdated


> show system firmware

Part       Type           Tag  Current        Available       Status

                        version        version

Routing Engine 0 BIOS            1  0.29.1        0           OK

Routing Engine 0 FPGA            2  1.103         0           OK

Routing Engine 0 I210            3  3.30.2032       0           OK

Routing Engine 0 I210-HA0          4  3.30.2047       0           OK

Routing Engine 0 I210-HA1          5  3.30.2047       0           OK

Routing Engine 0 CTRL-FPGA         6  1.55         0           OK

Routing Engine 0 UCD            7  0.6          0           OK

Routing Engine 0 NAC-FW           8  3.9          0           OK

Routing Engine 0 SSD1            13 2.48.1        0           OK <<<-----------------------

Routing Engine 0 SSD2            255 23.2.14        0           OK


CHASSISD log: 

Sep 16 22:43:29 dynamic_read_fwinfo: Firmware version mismatch for SSD1




Solution

The issue is specific to the Swissbit pSLC SSD starting with SFPCXXXXX on SRX Fleming devices. This is a false alarm caused by incorrect definition of the minimum required SSD firmware version in the Junos code.  This firmware alarm was introduced in 25.4R1 release for SRX1600, SRX2300, SRX4120 and SRX4300 platforms. A fix is expected in a future release of Junos 25.4R2. 

> show vmhost hardware

Compute cluster: default-cluster

 Compute node: default-node

  Hardware inventory:

  Item    Capacity       Part number        Serial number       Description

  DIMM 0   16384 MB       NT16GA72D8PFX3K-IX    80CA2422         DDR4 2933 MHz

  DIMM 1   16384 MB       NT16GA72D8PFX3K-IX    80CA253D         DDR4 2933 MHz

  DIMM 2   16384 MB       NT16GA72D8PFX3K-IX    80CA2544         DDR4 2933 MHz

  DIMM 3   16384 MB       NT16GA72D8PFX3K-IX    80CA24C5         DDR4 2933 MHz

  Disk1   120 GB        SFPC120GM1AR2MT      0000602765649C0000B9   SLIM NVMe SSD <<<----------------------------------------

  Disk2   960 GB        ATPFT960GP48APHBFI-JNP2  25080209-000270      SLIM NVMe SSD

Tracking PR: PR1982216
https://prsearch.juniper.net/problemreport/PR1982216

The fix will be available in following future releases:

25.4R2 
26.2R2
26.4R1 

Modification History

2026-09-24 : Article Created