Server's host key not cached on target servers

[marcog]

When running the inventory from a beacon, in a particular subnet assigned to it, I'm getting the following error.

Is there a way to automate the storage of the key in the targets, other than connecting manually in ssh on each of them?

Thanks

[ChrisG]

The "The server's host key is not cached in the registry" message is part of normal output for this process and wouldn't normally indicate a problem.

What is abnormal is the connection being unexpectedly closed. The output doesn't give much indication of why that would be occurring and I don't have any particularly insightful guesses as to what is likely to cause it.  I wonder (wildly guessing) if the SSH server has some sort of timeout set up that is breaking the connection after a time.

A troubleshooting step you could try may be to manually run something like the following on the beacon to see if basic SSH connections are working:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Flexera Software\Inventory Beacon\RemoteExecution\plink.exe" -batch -ln flexerauser_linux 172.30.118.133 "echo success"

[marcog]

Thanks I will try this

[marcog]

Sadly we have no access to the beacon, so this cannot be tried