Problem

AIX remote agents not able to connect with Bamboo server when the server uses SSL.

Environment

• Agents machine runs IBM AIX with IBM JDK
• Bamboo server running linux with Oracle JDK

Diagnostic Steps

• The following can be seen in the agent startup logs:

  2018-09-04 10:44:25,705 INFO [main] [AgentContext] Authenticating against Bamboo server at https://<BAMBOO_URL>/agentServer/
  Exiting due to fatal exception.
  javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake
      at com.ibm.jsse2.av.a(av.java:599)
      at com.ibm.jsse2.av.i(av.java:869)
      at com.ibm.jsse2.av.a(av.java:19)
      at com.ibm.jsse2.av.startHandshake(av.java:672)
      at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory.createLayeredSocket(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java:396)
      at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java:355)
      at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:142)
      at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:373)
      at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:381)
      at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:237)
      at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:185)
      at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:89)
      at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:111)
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:185)
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:83)
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:108)
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:56)
      at com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.bootstrap.AgentContext.initFingerprint(AgentContext.java:114)
      at com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.bootstrap.AgentContext.initServerSession(AgentContext.java:101)
      at com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.bootstrap.AgentContext.run(AgentContext.java:88)
      at com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.bootstrap.AgentBootstrap.run(AgentBootstrap.java:111)
      at com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.bootstrap.AgentBootstrap.main(AgentBootstrap.java:50)
  Caused by: java.io.EOFException: SSL peer shut down incorrectly
      at com.ibm.jsse2.b.a(b.java:131)
      at com.ibm.jsse2.av.a(av.java:562)
      ... 21 more

Resolution

The IBM JDK is not supported. Please switch to supported version of OpenJDK to fix this issue.