Steps to disable SSH on Aria Operations for Logs

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

How to disable SSH service on Aria Operations for Logs

Environment

Aria Operations for Logs 8.14.x
Aria Operations for Logs 8.16.x
Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.x

Resolution

Please follow the steps below to disable SSH service in Aria Operations for Logs

1. Take snapshots without memory for all Aria Operations for Logs nodes.
2. SSH each Aria Operations for Log nodes using root credentials.
3. Run the following commands on each Aria Operations for Logs node:
   

   systemctl disable sshd.socket
   systemctl stop sshd.socket
   systemctl disable sshd.service
   systemctl stop sshd.service
   systemctl mask sshd.service
   reboot -f