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Cynthia_18735
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Mar 07, 2008

SSH no longer works with Perl script after upgrading BigIP's to newer hardware/software

I have an iControl script, that I also do connection to using SSH. I can logon via Putty using SSH to the LTM; however, using the following code results in a permission denied error. This same scri...
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JRahm
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Mar 10, 2008
check Protocol setting in /config/ssh/sshd_config. You can set protocol to be version 1 (Protocol 1), version 2 (Protocol 2), or both (Protocol 2,1). It looks like the windows version of Net::SSH is only version 2, so as long as the F5 is accepting version 2, you should be ok on this front. You'll also need to check to see if your perl host is in the allow list in /etc/hosts.allow.