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Description

This article describes the issue of SRX-650 PoE gPIM not delivering power to the PoE devices.

Symptoms

AX-411 directly connected to SRX-650 POE gPIM
CX-111 directly connected to SRX-650 POE gPIM
AX-411/CX-111 directly connected to SRX-210/220, PoE devices does power up

Solution

On the SRX-650 platform, when configuring the Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), you need to specify maximum-power output going to each Flexible Pic Concentrator (FPC). On the SRX-650, you have multiple choices of number of POE FPC's, and quantities of POE FPC. Possible options with SRX-650 include:

16 port POE gPIM

24 port POE gPIM

Each FPC can power up:

250 watts on a single power supply, or with redundancy using the two-power-supply option.

500 watts with the two-power-supply option operating as nonredundant.

You can also determine the power capacity on each PoE controller with the command show poe controller :

root@Houston# run show poe controller    
node0:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Controller  Maximum   Power         Guard    Management  Status
index       power     consumption   band 
   0        250.0 W   7.5 W          0 W      Static

To configure a pair of interfaces for PoE, you can configure the following:

root@Houston# show | match poe | display set set poe interface ge-2/0/23 set poe interface ge-2/0/22 set poe interface reth0 set poe fpc 2 maximum-power 125

With the SRX-210, SRX-220, and SRX-240, you do not need to specify the maximum-power, as the maximum power is fixed to the onboard FPC; whereas on the SRX-650, you have the choice of 1 or 2 FPC's, and a choice of 16 or 24 port POE's.

Based on the above partial configuration, FPC 2 will allot up to 125 Watts for that FPC. Each interface can draw up to that maximum power and also has a self imposed power limit per interface.

root# run show poe interface 
Interface Admin status Oper status Max power Priority Power consumption Class
 ge-2/0/0 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
 ge-2/0/1 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
 ge-2/0/2 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
 ge-2/0/3 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
 ge-2/0/4 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
 ge-2/0/5 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
 ge-2/0/6 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
 ge-2/0/7 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
 ge-2/0/8 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
 ge-2/0/9 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/10 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/11 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/12 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/13 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/14 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/15 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/16 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/17 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/18 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/19 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/20 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/21 Disabled     Disabled    15.4W     Low      0.0W                     0
ge-2/0/22 Enabled      Powered-up  15.4W     Low      9.5W                     3
ge-2/0/23 Enabled      Powered-up  15.4W     Low      7.6W                     3

As you can see, interfaces ge-2/0/22 and ge-2/0/23 have maximum power of 15.4W each.These power levels are extracted from the max power of the FPC.