IFS Cloud - SFTP interface

You don’t really need an username, you can just make something up - as it doesn’t really need to login.
Even if the login is failed you’ll get the knownhost key.

Another way is to use some other SSH software if you can’t run Java, and dig the key out of their files.
You will of course need some understanding of how a known_hosts file is built - and IFS Cloud will only accept it with a .txt extension so it has to be renamed.

In your middle tier Linux server the key would be located in the .ssh hidden folder.
Just login to the middle tier and do
cat .ssh/known_hosts

.

You can either copypaste the key into a text file , or get the key file for example to the management server with something like
(from Windows command prompt)
scp ifs@my-mt-server.com:/home/ifs/.ssh/known_hosts .

(the last dot is needed if I recall right)

Hello ​@SamiL ,

I m actually following the same thing. using ssh-keyscan from ubuntu server. 

using following command 

ssh-keyscan -p 6022 P2Pxxxst.xxxxxx.co.za >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts

then created a knowhost.txt file and upload in sender. 

send the message is send to 3rd party then getting following error message 

ifs.fnd.connect.senders.ConnectSender$TemporaryFailureException: Error during file sending Caused by: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: reject HostKey: [P2Pxxxst.xxxxxx.co.za]:6022

Please suggest

Regards

Pankaj

According to IFS guidelines, IP addresses cannot be used for setting up IFS Connect. They recommend using the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) instead. 

Hello ​@maheshmuz ,

FQDN is used.

regards

Pankaj

Based on my experience, you need to have at least the hostname  (FQDN)  and the username to properly generate the knownhosts file for it to work correctly in the application.

Please check the encryption used on the host key (it says that in plain text inside the file).
Not all encryptions are supported by IFS Cloud.
This also depends on your IFS Cloud version. See for example 

Hello ​@SamiL ,

the error is not related to encryption.

​@maheshmuz  Knownhost file contains FDQN

regards

Pankaj

Hi ​@paguin 

Here You have everything:

https://community.ifs.com/framework-experience-infrastructure-cloud-integration-dev-tools-50/knowhost-file-error-messages-ifs-cloud-58229

https://community.ifs.com/ifs-framework-experience-employees-partners-only-109/creation-of-knownhost-file-without-user-password-gsdtech-22451

https://community.ifs.com/ifs-framework-experience-employees-partners-only-109/create-knownhost-file-for-sftp-sender-towards-azure-sftp-gsdtech-23394