OpenSSH Install

[Ian Alden]

Hi,
Question for all- I am having ransom issues getting OpenSSH working on different servers- running NT4, W2K and W2K3. I can push the OpenSSH install via SIM fine but try and run mxagentconfig -g and I get: "Failed to establish connection to 'servername'" On these machines that are having the problem there is no .ssh folder in the local administrators folder on the box pointing to a corrupt install. Has anyone seen this happen before and if so how can I cure it?? Thanks

[Mike Strako]

You must follow the attached document step-by-step, let me know how it works for you.

Best regards,

Mike.

[Ian Alden]

Thanks,
I've reviewed the document but I do not consider I have this problem. The Push of OpenSSH works fine, it is the last part of the job that fails. It says: "Configuration failed to complete because of the following exception: Unable to contact the SSH Server on 'Servername'" With the servername relating to the client it is pushed too. With no .ssh directory I cannot change the permissions on the client only on the ssh server which is working fine as it can push jobs fine. Is there an install I can manually run on these problem machine to prove (or disprove) installation corruption? Or does this error actually relate to which user is running the file as at the moment its just the default user as installed by SIM??

[Joel Rubenstein]

If you execute the command

ssh administrator@hostname

You can manually login to test the ssh server on that host. It will create the .ssh directory and the known_hosts file if necessary. If you get any errors running the command they need to be corrected before the mxagentconfig command will run successfully.