File Transfers

Downloading Switch Software

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Troubleshooting SSH, SFTP, and SCP Operations

You can verify secure file transfer operations by checking the switch’s event log, or by viewing the error messages sent by the switch that most SCP and SFTP clients will print out on their console.

Messages that are sent by the switch to the client depend on the client software in use to display them on the user console.

Broken SSH Connection. If an ssh connection is broken at the wrong moment (for instance, the link goes away or spanning tree brings down the link), a fatal exception would occur on the switch. If this happens, the switch will gracefully exit the session and produce an event log message indicating the cause of failure. The following three examples show the error messages that may appear in the log depending on the type of session that is running (SSH, SCP, or SFTP).

ssh: read error Bad file number, session aborted I 01/

01/90 00:06:11 00636 ssh: sftp session from ::ffff:10.0.12.35 W 01/01/90 00:06:26 00641 ssh:

sftp read error Bad file number, session aborted I 01/ 01/90 00:09:54 00637 ssh: scp session from ::ffff:10.0.12.35 W 01/01/90

ssh: scp read error Bad file number, session aborted

The Bad file number is from the system error value and may differ depending on the cause of the failure. In the third example, the device file to read was closed as the device read was about to occur.

Attempt to Start a Session During a Flash Write. If you attempt to start an SCP (or SFTP) session while a flash write is in progress, the switch will not allow the SCP or SFTP session to start. Depending on the client software in use, the following error message may appear on the client console:

Received disconnect from 10.0.12.31: 2: Flash access in progress

lost connection

Failure to Exit from a Previous Session. This next example shows the error message that may appear on the client console if a new SCP (or SFTP) session is started from a client before the previous client session has been closed (the switch requires approximately ten seconds to timeout the previous session):

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