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charlestips_149
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Sep 18, 2009

SSHD Process Stopped and Won't Start

While going over devices that our Network Automation software cannot access I saw an F5 in our preprod environment that is inaccessible.     I pinged the device to make sure it was up and i...
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The_Bhattman
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Sep 18, 2009
You could console into the unit and perform the following:

 

 

bigstart restart sshd to see if it recovers. If that doesn't work your only option is failover and reboot the system and hope it comes up.

 

 

I would also take a look a the logs to see if there was anything point to where the sshd was shutdown.

 

 

I hope this helps

 

CB