Description

The LCMD (Linux Chassis Management Daemon) is a process that is running on the packet forwarding engine and communicates with chassisd process on the routing engine.

Due to a rare timing issue, Chassisd processes LCMD connect message after 10 sec of sleep, and by that time LCMD has sent multiple reconnect messages (as lcmd was listening from chassis in that duration).

When chassisd processes these reconnect messages, it thinks that lcmd connection is unstable and raises this alarm.

Symptoms

SRX1500, SRX4100, SRX4200, SRX4600, vSRX2 or SRX5k with SPC3 might display alarm "LCM Peer Connection un-stable". 

The following command can be used to check this issue:

root@srx> show chassis alarms 
1 alarms currently active
Alarm time               Class  Description
2020-05-09 09:10:11 GMT  Minor  LCM Peer Connection un-stable

 

Solution

This is a harmless alarm that doesn't even count for HW-monitoring failure.
 

It has no impact on traffic or on the stability of the cluster.
 

Workaround
 

  • Restart LCMD
"vhclient -s" to enter Linux host.
"monit restart lcmd" to restart lcmd.
 
  • Reboot the affected node/device 
Resolved in 
junos:18.4R3-S5 junos:18.4R3-S6 junos:20.2R3 junos:20.3R2 junos:20.4R1

Modification History

2023-10-16 : Article Created