configuration of a slave node in jenkins with SSH-Agent

Question

Hello everubody , i have this problem when i want to configure a slave node in jenkins with the SSH-agent method , can you help me to resolve this problem ?

11/01/17 12:16:15] [SSH] Opening SSH connection to 192.168.226.197:22.
/var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/known_hosts [SSH] No Known Hosts file was found at /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/known_hosts. Please ensure one is created at this path and that Jenkins can read it.
Key exchange was not finished, connection is closed.
java.io.IOException: There was a problem while connecting to 192.168.226.197:22
    at com.trilead.ssh2.Connection.connect(Connection.java:834)
    at com.trilead.ssh2.Connection.connect(Connection.java:703)
    at com.trilead.ssh2.Connection.connect(Connection.java:617)
    at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher.openConnection(SSHLauncher.java:1284)
    at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher$2.call(SSHLauncher.java:804)
    at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher$2.call(SSHLauncher.java:793)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Key exchange was not finished, connection is closed.
    at com.trilead.ssh2.transport.KexManager.getOrWaitForConnectionInfo(KexManager.java:95)
    at com.trilead.ssh2.transport.TransportManager.getConnectionInfo(TransportManager.java:237)
    at com.trilead.ssh2.Connection.connect(Connection.java:786)
    ... 9 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: The server hostkey was not accepted by the verifier callback
    at com.trilead.ssh2.transport.KexManager.handleMessage(KexManager.java:548)
    at com.trilead.ssh2.transport.TransportManager.receiveLoop(TransportManager.java:790)
    at com.trilead.ssh2.transport.TransportManager$1.run(TransportManager.java:502)
    ... 1 more
[11/01/17 12:16:15] Launch failed - cleaning up connection
[11/01/17 12:16:15] [SSH] Connection closed.

Answer 1

In your agent configuration, for " Host Key Verification Strategy " you probably have " Known hosts file verification strategy ". But when master initiates ssh connection - it doesn't update the known host file. So, you can try to execute ssh command manually to initiate a connection and update the file appropriately.

And of course you can disable " Know hosts file verification strategy " by setting " Non verifying Verification Strategy ", but it is insecure .

Answer 2

No Known Hosts file was found at /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/known_hosts . Please ensure one is created at this path and that Jenkins can read it.

On the Master's machine, you can use ssh-copy-id command connect to agent:

ssh-copy-id [-p agent-ssh-port] agent-user@agent-hostname

On the Master, Relaunch the agent in Jenkins Nodes.