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IB Switch Upgrade Failed due to incompatible ciphers (Doc ID 2332984.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Applies to:

Exadata X3-2 Half Rack - Version All Versions and later
OCI Exadata X7-2 Hardware
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Patching the Infiniband switch using sftp or scp will fail but you can scp/sftp and everything will be fine IB linux shell.

 

# patchmgr -ibswiches -upgrade -force

&

-> load -source sftp://root:welcome1@ex01dbadm01/u01/patches/CELL/patch_12.2.1.1.2.170714/sundcs_36p_repository_upgrade_2.1_to_2.2.6_2.pkg
Downloading firmware image. This will take a few minutes.

Error: Failed initialization



Firmware image update failed.

load: Command Failed
->

Changes

 

Cause

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