SSH key Authentication to linux machine through Orchestrator workflow fails.

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

• SSH key in aria orchestrator servers doesn't authenticate to a local Linux VM after SHA1 being blocked in Linux machines.
• Manual SSH key authentication through orchestrator appliance to same linux machine works fine.
  
  

  Invocation exception during 'public void ch.dunes.ssh2.SSH2AbstractSession.connectWithPasswordOrIdentity(boolean.java.lang.String.java.lang.String) throws com.jcraft.jsch.3SchException,java.io.Fi1eNotFoundException' call on object'ch.dunes.ssh2.SSH2Session@a741cfb'

Environment

Aria Automation 8.18

Cause

This is a known issue with existing SSH plugin.
Latest SSH plugin has been updated to not use SHA1 Algorithm.

Resolution

Update ssh plugin to the attached latest version of plugin ssh-8.0.1 24140733.