[VCL-681] Failure to detect if SSH is available on VMware - timed out during banner exchange

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Component/s: vcld (backend)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew Kurth
• Created: 04/Mar/13 14:14
• Updated: 20/Nov/14 14:43
• Resolved: 06/Nov/14 18:50

Description

VMware.pm will fail to detect if SSH is available on the host if the command to check if it responds returns the SSH error "Connection timed out during banner exchange".

Example output in vcld.log:

2013-03-01 13:35:08|12766|2112395:2200930|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(4745)|executing SSH command on blade:
... 'vim-cmd ; vmware-vim-cmd' 2>&1
2013-03-01 13:35:11|12766|2112395:2200930|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(4863)|run_ssh_command output:

12766	2112395:2200930	inuse	Connection timed out during banner exchange 2013-03-01 13:35:11	12766	2112395:2200930	inuse	VIM_SSH.pm:initialize(126)	VIM executable is not available on the VM host, output:
12766	2112395:2200930	inuse	Connection timed out during banner exchange