glassfish4 create-node-ssh failed due to ssh key exchange not finished - ssh

Question

I'm trying to create a node on a remote host(I've already created a domain).
I'm running the command:
asadmin -p <port_number> create-node-ssh --nodehost <remote_hostname> --installdir <glassfish_installed_dir_path> <node_name>
and getting the following error everytime:
remote failure: Warning: some parameters appear to be invalid.
SSH node not created. To force creation of the node with these parameters rerun the command using the --force option.
Could not connect to host <hostname> using SSH.
There was a problem while connecting to <hostname>:22
Key exchange was not finished, connection is closed.
Command create-node-ssh failed.
From the error it seems that there is some connection problem. But I can ssh to the target server and I'm using the same key_pair.
After searching for some solution (link1, link2) I found that trying to login through ssh without password could solve this.
But no luck. Now I can ssh to & from the target server without password as well. But this issue is still there.
What should I check for, in order to resolve this ?
Let me know if I'm missing out anything.

Answer 1

Can you try to start sshd daemon in debug mode to a different port at the remote node host:
sudo sshd -D -d -e -p 23
and try create-node-ssh command against that ssh port?:
asadmin -p <port_number> create-node-ssh --nodehost <remote_hostname> --installdir <glassfish_installed_dir_path> --sshport 23 <node_name>
I had an issue regarding glassfish ssh exchange keys because of ssh newer versions deprecating older algorithms:
Unable to negotiate with X.X.X.X port XXXXX: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 [preauth]
My solution was to add legacy keys to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
KexAlgorithms +diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
Ciphers +aes128-cbc
Even if this is not your case, sshd debug will surelly give you more information.