NCM jobs for Procurve switches - bogus failure message and THREE(?) logins per job!

Folks,

I know the vast majority of NCM users are Cisco-centric, but I'm throwing this out there in case there are other folks using NCM to back up/config Procurve switches.

I'm setting up a very simple test job - basically, a three-line script that enters config mode, changes a setting, writes to memory and logs out.

Like this:

conf t

tacacs-server timeout 10

write mem

logout

y (for the prompt that one receives at logout)

I'm seeing two unusual things.

First, the job completes functionally but reports an error in the log like this :

ERROR: Transfer failure due to connection interrupt during execute script. I've seen a few threads with this re Procurve, so I know it's a common-ish thing.

The second symptom is more unusual - NCM logs in and out of the switch three times while completing this job.

Proof is in the log like so:

I 03/16/17 13:32:21 03363 auth: User 'US_SvcSolarwinds' logged out of SSH

            session from  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

I 03/16/17 13:32:15 03125 mgr: Startup configuration changed by CLI.  New seq.

            number 42

I 03/16/17 13:32:09 00179 mgr: SME SSH from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx MANAGER Mode

I 03/16/17 13:32:04 03362 auth: User 'US_SvcSolarwinds' logged in from

            xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to SSH  session

I 03/16/17 13:32:01 03363 auth: User 'US_SvcSolarwinds' logged out of SSH

            session from  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

I 03/16/17 13:31:55 03125 mgr: Startup configuration changed by CLI.  New seq.

            number 41

I 03/16/17 13:31:49 00179 mgr: SME SSH from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx- MANAGER Mode

I 03/16/17 13:31:44 03362 auth: User 'US_SvcSolarwinds' logged in from

            xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to SSH  session

I 03/16/17 13:31:41 03363 auth: User 'US_SvcSolarwinds' logged out of SSH

            session from  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

I 03/16/17 13:31:35 03125 mgr: Startup configuration changed by CLI.  New seq.

            number 40

I 03/16/17 13:31:29 00179 mgr: SME SSH from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - MANAGER Mode

I 03/16/17 13:31:23 03362 auth: User 'US_SvcSolarwinds' logged in from

            xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to SSH  session

I can replicate this problem all day long. I'm likely going to open a case with support, but I wanted to poll my NCM peers to find out if you've ever seen this. Very strange.