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EM 13C: Infiniband Credential Failing With Error "Could not validate IB Switch ssh connection. Status: AuthenticationException" During Exadata Machine Discovery (Doc ID 3074283.1)

Last updated on MARCH 10, 2025

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager for Exadata - Version 13.5.0.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

While discovering the Exadata Database Machine, Infiniband Discovery Credential Failing with an error as shown below

connectTest;Could not validate IB Switch ssh connection. Status: AuthenticationException

Error stack from compute node agent log : <AGENT_INST>/sysman/log/gcagent.log

2025-02-20 18:49:09,584 [70523:F460E8F1:GC.DPExecutor2.141 (CDProps:oracle_si_switch_oracle_ib.XXXX-iba0.com__T__:FwVersion)] INFO - Computing of dynamic property: [FwVersion] for oracle_si_switch_oracle_si_switch_oracle_ib.XXXX-iba0.com__T__ is done ( 0 msec , error=false)
2025-02-20 18:49:09,614 [70525:9D03F8D2] INFO - Could not validate IB Switch ssh connection. Status: AuthenticationException
oracle.sysman.emSDK.agent.fetchlet.exception.FetchletException: Could not validate IB Switch ssh connection. Status: AuthenticationException
at oracle.sysman.si.netswitch.ib.OracleInfiniBandSwitchImpl.getConnectTest(OracleInfiniBandSwitchImpl.java:845)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

 

Cause

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