Hi All. I have a question about one of my servers. 

I have been having issues with running backups on one of my servers as it keeps failing due to SSH but at some point, it connects without me doing anything at all

See below.

[pqaWASCPS02] / #
[pqaWASCPS02] / # ssh -vvv s2029809@brktsmap03
OpenSSH_8.1p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2u  20 Dec 2019
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: init_func_ptrs success
debug1: Value of krb5 is 1
debug1: Value of gssapi is 1
debug2: resolving "brktsmap03" port 22
debug2: ssh_connect_direct
debug1: Connecting to brktsmap03 [10.30.6.55] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 10.30.6.55 port 22: Resource temporarily unavailable
ssh: connect to host brktsmap03 port 22: Resource temporarily unavailable
[pqaWASCPS02] / #

Hi,

There seems to be old version of openssh, openssl installed in this system which we no longer support.

openssh is at 8.1 and openssl is at 1.0.2 version

Is it possible to update to supported versions, openssh to 9.7 and openssl to 3.0.15 from AIX web download pack ? 

Links to download and install

https://www.ibm.com/resources/mrs/assets?source=aixbp&S_PKG=openssl

https://www.ibm.com/resources/mrs/assets?source=aixbp&S_PKG=openssh

Thanks

Hi Sandeep.

Thanks a lot for the prompt response.

I have taken the box to the highest level of SSH and OPENSSL but still didn't work as it was supposed to but while still at that, at some point it worked without me doing anything at all. Later we then realized that the box had too many established connections which left the system with no free ports to establish newer connections. On our troubleshooting we find out that most of the sockets were held by WAS processes and just by restarting WAS JVMs all connection was back to normal.

Thanks again. 

https://www.ibm.com/resources/mrs/assets?source=aixbp&S_PKG=openssl

https://www.ibm.com/resources/mrs/assets?source=aixbp&S_PKG=openssh