2579806 - "Could not connect to SFTP server" error for Remote File Report Job

When running or scheduling a report and having Remote File as the Report Destination, the job fails. The error below is shown in the Background Jobs tool:

Errors:   java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor661.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
 at com.plateau.common.core.api.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethod(ReflectionUtils.java:323)
 at com.plateau.common.jobscheduling.impl.simple.SimpleJobRunnable.invokeJobTearDownHandlers(SimpleJobRunnable.java:284)
 at com.plateau.common.jobscheduling.impl.simple.SimpleJobRunnable.tearDown(SimpleJobRunnable.java:236)
 at com.plateau.foundation.jobscheduling.TenantAwareJobRunnable.tearDown(TenantAwareJobRunnable.java:69)
 at com.plateau.common.jobscheduling.impl.simple.SimpleJobRunnable.run(SimpleJobRunnable.java:150)
 at com.plateau.foundation.jobscheduling.TenantAwareJobRunnable.run(TenantAwareJobRunnable.java)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:807)
Caused by: org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileSystemException: Could not connect to SFTP server at "[SFTP URL]".
 at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.sftp.SftpFileProvider.doCreateFileSystem(SftpFileProvider.java:107)
 at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.getFileSystem(AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.java:103)
 at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.findFile(AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.java:81)
 at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.findFile(AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.java:65)
 at org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager.java:693)
 at org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager.java:621)
 at com.plateausystems.elms.framework.report.impl.ReportFTPProducerImpl.sftpReport(ReportFTPProducerImpl.java:207)
 at com.plateausystems.elms.framework.report.impl.ReportFTPProducerImpl.uploadReport(ReportFTPProducerImpl.java:99)
 at com.plateausystems.elms.client.struts.report.ReportHelper.uploadReport(ReportHelper.java:1694)
 at com.plateausystems.elms.framework.report.impl.ReportBackgroundJob.sendReportToRemoteDestination(ReportBackgroundJob.java:780)
 ... 12 more
Caused by: org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileSystemException: Could not connect to SFTP server at "[SFTP URL]".
 at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.sftp.SftpClientFactory.createConnection(SftpClientFactory.java:230)
 at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.sftp.SftpFileProvider.doCreateFileSystem(SftpFileProvider.java:96)
 ... 21 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to get the length of a null array loaded from local variable 'value'
 at java.lang.String.(String.java:197)
 at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.sftp.SftpClientFactory.createConnection(SftpClientFactory.java:139)
 ... 22 more

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