SSH connection refused to SP or BMC after newly introduced controller

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Category:: aff-series

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Applies to

AFF Models
FAS Models
ONTAP 9
Service Processor (SP)
Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
BIOS

Issue

Scenarios

Newly installed system prior to booting into ONTAP
Replaced motherboard prior to booting into ONTAP
Wipeclean performed on SP or BMC

Symptoms

Attempting to SSH into the SP/BMC IP address of a controller under the scenarios list results in the following:

ssh -l admin 10.10.10.10

ssh: connect to host 10.10.10.10 port 22: Connection refused

If connected to the serial console of the controller at the same time of the SSH attempt, similar errors to the following will be seen in the output:

[200912345678][123:456:easyinitd][WARN][easyinitd_wdt.c:monitor_service:119]sshd is not started yet, might still generate keys

sh: can't kill pid 11111: No such process

network: Secure Port is enabled for [ssh] with 22

Unable to load host key "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key": invalid format

Unable to load host key "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key": invalid format

Unable to load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key

Unable to load host key "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key": invalid format

Unable to load host key "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key": invalid format

Unable to load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

Unable to load host key "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_256_key": invalid format

Unable to load host key "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_256_key": invalid format

Unable to load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_256_key

Unable to load host key "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_384_key": invalid format

Unable to load host key "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_384_key": invalid format

Unable to load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_384_key

Unable to load host key "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_521_key": invalid format

Unable to load host key "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_521_key": invalid format

Unable to load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_521_key

sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.

Applications such as SecureCRT might report the following during the connection attempt:

[LOCAL] : RECV: SERVICE_ACCEPT[ssh-userauth] -- OK
[LOCAL] : SENT : USERAUTH_REQUEST [none]
[LOCAL] : 
[LOCAL] : RECV: TCP/IP close
[LOCAL] : Changing state from STATE_CONNECTION to STATE_CLOSED
[LOCAL] : Connected for 5 seconds, 1586 bytes sent, 1079 bytes received
[LOCAL] : Stream has closed [CLOSE_TYPE_NONSPECIFIC] : The operation completed successfully.