Node in HA becomes slow and stops responding to SSH login attempts
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)
- SSH
Issue
One node in HA pair becomes extremely slow and all login sessions to the node are being closed after successful authentication:
# ssh -vvv admin@10.0.0.1OpenSSH_7.2p2, OpenSSL 1.0.2p-fips 14 Aug 2018debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_configdebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 25: Applying options for *debug2: resolving "10.0.0.1" port 22debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0debug1: Connecting to 10.0.0.1 [10.0.0.1] port 22.debug1: Connection established....debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactivedebug2: userauth_kbdintdebug3: send packet: type 50debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for replydebug3: receive packet: type 60debug2: input_userauth_info_reqdebug2: input_userauth_info_req: num_prompts 1Password:debug3: send packet: type 61debug1: Authentication succeeded (keyboard-interactive).Authenticated to 10.0.0.1 ([10.0.0.1]:22).debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]debug3: ssh_session2_open: channel_new: 0debug2: channel 0: send opendebug3: send packet: type 90debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.comdebug3: send packet: type 80debug1: Entering interactive session.debug1: pledge: networkdebug3: send packet: type 1debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1debug3: channel 0: status: The following connections are open: #0 client-session (t3 r-1 i0/0 o0/0 fd 5/6 cc -1)Connection to 10.0.0.1 closed by remote host.Connection to 10.0.0.1 closed.Transferred: sent 2168, received 1540 bytes, in 0.0 secondsBytes per second: sent 23079317.4, received 16393980.1debug1: Exit status -1real 0m50.135suser 0m0.015ssys 0m0.000s#