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EM 13.4: Agent Installation From Console OR EMCLI is Failed at Remote Validations Step (Doc ID 2757411.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 18, 2023

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager Base Platform - Version 13.4.0.0.0 to 13.4.0.0.0 [Release 13c]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

13.4 OMS on RHEL 7 version. Agent deployment (setup > Add Target > add host target) fails at Remote Validation with message 'Getting SSH Connection Check Failed'

With emcli submit_add_target also fails with the same error.

Connection to the SSH daemon (sshd) on the target host failed with the following error : Too many authentication failures Ensure that SSH daemon (sshd) on the target host is able to respond to login requests on the provided sshd port 22.

Ensure the provided user name and password or ssh keys are correct.Ensure that the property PasswordAuthentication is set to yes in the SSHD configuration file (sshd_config) on the remote host.

 

 From OMS_HOME/gc_inst/em/EMGC_OMS1/sysman/agentpush/<DATE_HH-MM-SEC-AM/applogs/agenthostname_deploy.log:

2021-01-28_11-32-33:INFO:retry count : 1

2021-01-28_11-32-33:INFO:Running cmd /bin/true on node <Agent_Host_Name>
2021-01-28_11-32-33:INFO:ssh connect timeout 60000
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Error Message: PROV-16011: Too many authentication failures
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Error Level : -1
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Cause : null
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Full Message: Too many authentication failures
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Message: Too many authentication failures
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:AuthFailMsg to check password Auth fail keys Auth cancel
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO: SSH Connect Failure for user oempb on node <Agent_Host_Name>
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO: Jsch Validation Failed Problem :SSH connection check failed Recommendation: Ensure that SSH daemon (sshd) on the target host is able to respond to login requests on the provided sshd port 22.Ensure the provided user name and password or ssh keys are correct.Ensure that the property PasswordAuthentication is set to yes in the SSHD configuration file (sshd_config) on the remote host.
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Breaking since the jsch validation has failed
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:InvocationTargetException Exception
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Printing Exception :java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at oracle.sysman.core.agentpush.ui.deployer.BaseDeployerOps.executeActions(BaseDeployerOps.java:2886)
at oracle.sysman.core.agentpush.ui.deployer.InitializationDeployer.deploy(InitializationDeployer.java:619)
at oracle.sysman.core.agentpush.ui.deployfwk.DeploymentWorker.run(DeploymentWorker.java:26)
at oracle.sysman.util.threadPoolManager.WorkerThread.run(Worker.java:311)
Caused by: oracle.sysman.core.agentpush.ui.exception.JschValidationException
at oracle.sysman.core.agentpush.ui.deployer.JschValidationOps.doRemotePasswordCheck(JschValidationOps.java:632)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at oracle.sysman.core.agentpush.ui.deployer.InitializationDeployer.doSSHValidations(InitializationDeployer.java:140)
... 8 more

2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO: Jsch Valdation Failed Problem :SSH connection check failed Recommendation: Ensure that SSH daemon (sshd) on the target host is able to respond to login requests on the provided sshd port 22.Ensure the provided user name and password or ssh keys are correct.Ensure that the property PasswordAuthentication is set to yes in the SSHD configuration file (sshd_config) on the remote host.
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Updating Action SSHValidationswith Status FAILED and error Message :Connection to the SSH daemon (sshd) on the target host failed with the following error : Too many authentication failures and problem SSH connection check failed and recommendation Ensure that SSH daemon (sshd) on the target host is able to respond to login requests on the provided sshd port 22.Ensure the provided user name and password or ssh keys are correct.Ensure that the property PasswordAuthentication is set to yes in the SSHD configuration file (sshd_config) on the remote host.
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:=================action status is not empty FAILED
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Breaking since the jsch validation has failed
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Skipping action CopyAgentImage since some previous step has failed
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:The following action failedSSHValidations
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:TIME TAKEN for Initialization on host <Agent_Host_Name> is 0: hrs 0: mins 2 sec
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:PERF:HOSTNAME:<Agent_Host_Name>:InitializationDeployer_EXECUTION_TIME:2988
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:HOST:<Agent_Host_Name>
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:Destroying Logger
2021-01-28_11-32-35:INFO:======================================Initialization END ====================================

 

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