The temperature is too high, an alarm occurs. The temperature is that of the air flowing past the FPC. See the Junos OS Routing Protocols Configuration Guide, Class of Service Configuration Guide, and Junos OS System Basics and Services Command Reference. For more detailed information about the FPC states, If the FPC state is dead, an alarm occurs. The state can be online, dead, diag, dormant, empty, online, probed, or probe-wait. The command output displays a brief status of all the FPCs installed Whether there is a problem with any of the FPCs installed in the router. Use the show chassis fpc command to identify Slot State (C) Total Interrupt DRAM (MB) Heap Buffer Temp CPU Utilization (%) Memory Utilization (%)