Description

This article describes what the message, ‘PFED_NOTIFICATION_STATS_FAILED’ is and how it is triggered. This is a warning message and does not cause any problems on the SRX cluster.

Symptoms

In the secondary node of an SRX chassis cluster, the following message is logged multiple times:

Mar 1 11:32:12 srx240h-c pfed: PFED_NOTIFICATION_STATS_FAILED: Unable to retrieve notification statistics

The goal is to:
  • Explain what this message means
  • What triggers this message
  • How it affects the system

Solution

A possible trigger of this message is the user’s operation of SNMP polling on both node0 and node1.

From the System Log Explorer page , the following information is logged:

Name: PFED_NOTIFICATION_STATS_FAILED
Message: Unable to retrieve notification statistics
Help: pfed could not fetch notification statistics
Description: The Packet Forwarding Engine process (pfed) could not retrieve Packet Forwarding Engine notification statistics.
Type: Error - An error occurred
Severity: warning
Facility: LOG_PFE

This message is just a warning and does not describe any problems on the SRX cluster as it is shown on the secondary node.

To demonstrate how this message could be logged, issue the following command on the secondary node:

show snmp mib walk jnxPfeMibRoot

You will see the messages in the Syslog file:

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{secondary:node1}
root@SRX-lab> show snmp mib walk jnxPfeMibRoot

{secondary:node1}
root@SRX-lab> show log messages | grep PFED_NOTIFICATION_STATS_FAILED
Aug 18 22:22:19 SRX-lab pfed: PFED_NOTIFICATION_STATS_FAILED: Unable to retrieve notification statistics
Aug 18 22:22:25 SRX-lab mgd[33113]: UI_CMDLINE_READ_LINE: User 'root', command 'show log messages | grep PFED_NOTIFICATION_STATS_FAILED
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