3477415 - Intermittent "Unable to create a socket" error in PI/PO SOAP Receiver Channel

• The Process Integration (PI) or Process Orchestration (PO) SOAP Receiver channel is intermittently failing with an "Unable to create a socket" error.
• Additionally, the detailed SOAP adapter channel trace is displaying this error: Error creating client SSL socket
  [EXCEPTION]
  java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect (local port 64240 to address X:X:X:X:X:X:X:X, remote port 443 to address XX.XXX.XX.XX)
  at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
  at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(DualStackPlainSocketImpl.java:75)
  at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:476)
  at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:218)
  at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)
  at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:163)
  at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:394)
  at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:874)
  at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:811)
  at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:707)
  at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:484)
  at iaik.security.ssl.SSLSocket.<init>(SourceFile:108)
  at com.sap.aii.af.sdk.xi.net.SSLSocketFactory.createSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:413)
  at com.sap.aii.af.sdk.xi.net.HTTPClientConnection.classicSSLConnection(HTTPClientConnection.java:1127)
  at com.sap.aii.af.sdk.xi.net.HTTPClientConnection.call(HTTPClientConnection.java:567)
  at com.sap.aii.af.sdk.xi.net.HTTPClientConnection.post(HTTPClientConnection.java:309)
  at com.sap.aii.af.sdk.xi.srt.CallerServiceImpl2.call(CallerServiceImpl2.java:267)
  at com.sap.aii.af.sdk.xi.srt.TransportBubble.onMessage(TransportBubble.java:50)

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