PMM-15302 Verify no SSH key settings off AMI

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What

One Playwright test for the half of percona/pmm#5744 that had no coverage anywhere: on a deployment that is not AMI, the Settings page must not offer an SSH key tab.

PMM-T2282 — on the suite's own Docker server: no settings-tab-ssh in the DOM, /pmm-ui/settings/ssh-key redirects to the default tab, and PUT /v1/server/settings with an ssh_key comes back 500 … SSH key can be set only on AMI distribution with the stored setting unchanged.

Tagged @docker-configuration, so it rides the existing Playwright job in fb-e2e-suite.yml. e2e-tests-matrix.yml calls that suite as its fb_tests job, so it runs on every pmm-qa PR and on that workflow's 02:00 cron.

The AMI side is deliberately not here

An earlier revision had a second test, PMM-T2283, that started a container with PMM_DISTRIBUTION_METHOD=ami. That makes the server report AMI — which is what the gate keys off — but it is not an AMI deployment: no EC2, no AMI image, no admin OS user, and SSH never attempted. Simulating AMI to assert AMI behaviour is not worth having, so it is gone (021668d), and its Zephyr case is deprecated.

The AMI side belongs to the tests that run against real AMI deployments — pmm3-ui-tests-nightly-gha with SERVER_TYPE=ami (nightly cron, and via pmm3-rc-testing's nightly (AMI) stage), which boots a real AMI instance before dispatching the suite. Worth noting for whoever owns those, since only a real AMI can catch it: writeSSHKey writes the key to the pmm OS user's home, /home/pmm/.ssh/authorized_keys — confirmed on a live server during manual QA — while docs PR percona/pmm#5765 tells users to ssh admin@…. If the AMI login account is admin, the key lands in a home nobody logs in as and SSH access silently never works. The username predates this change.

Why here, and not an existing test

Checked before adding one. Nothing asserted the absence: the only other references to the SSH tab are locators plus CodeceptJS PMM-T85, which navigates to the SSH URL only when the distribution is AMI, so it never executes its assertions in CI and never covered the negative case.

@settings was the obvious host but is not an option: the Playwright tags any workflow selects are @LBAC, @alerting, @docker-configuration, @inventory|@image-renderer, @new-navigation|@menu, @pmm-ps-integration, @pmm-ps-pxc-haproxy-integration, @pmm-psmdb-integration, @pmm-valkey-integration and @rta. @settings|@cli runs on the CodeceptJS runner only, so a Playwright test tagged @settings — portalRemoval.test.ts and its siblings — does not execute. @docker-configuration is the Playwright job that runs on a plain Docker server, which is exactly this test's precondition.

Supporting changes

• ServerApi.getDistributionMethod() — reads distribution_method off /v1/version, typed to the methods PMM ships (AMI, DOCKER, UNSPECIFIED).
• SettingsResponse.ssh_key on the settings API interface, so the refusal check can compare the stored value before and after.
• minPmmVersion entry for PMM-T2282 at 3.10.0, so it does not assert the absence of a tab that legitimately exists on a released image.

No change to any existing test, page object, or workflow.

Validation

Green on the final head acdcc25: E2E matrix #1806 and Lint #207 both pass, all 37 check runs success or skipped. The Playwright @docker-configuration leg ran PMM-T2282 for real — ✓ 5 … PMM-T2282 - Verify the SSH key tab is hidden and its URL redirects on a non-AMI deployment (2.8s), 7 found / 7 passed, launchable confidence 100%, 0 actionable failures — against perconalab/pmm-server:3-dev-latest carrying #5744. Naming the per-test line rather than the run conclusion matters here: an earlier revision was green at run level while the removed PMM-T2283 was dying in fixture setup.

Earlier manual QA on a throwaway Linode VM also showed the test failing when pointed at a server reporting AMI, so the assertion has teeth. npm run lint (eslint + tsc) clean.

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Walkthrough

This change adds a typed, optional distribution method to ServerApi and makes ssh_key required in settings responses. It adds the PMM-T2282 version gate for PMM Server 3.10.0. The Docker end-to-end test now verifies distribution reporting, SSH key tab absence, route redirection, rejected updates, and unchanged settings. The simulated AMI test suite was removed.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 02166

This change retains Docker coverage for unavailable SSH key settings and removes the simulated AMI test that contained the prior asynchronous assertion concern. No current merge-blocking risk remains.

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[travagliad]

@claude please review this.

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Review — PMM-15302 AMI-only SSH key gate

Reviewed against .claude/skills/qa-code-review + references/playwright-suite.md. The coverage argument in the body holds up: I confirmed PMM-T85 (codeceptjs-e2e/tests/configuration/verifyPMMSettingsPageElements_test.js:44) and pmmSettingsPage.getSubPages() (:679) both early-return unless the server reports DISTRIBUTION_METHOD_AMI, and no workflow runs an AMI server — so those branches are inert. The page object already had everything the tests needed (pages/ha/settings.page.ts:9,15), so the "no page-object changes" claim checks out too. Nice restraint.

Two things to fix before merge, then nits.

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🟡 Host port 446 is already bound by clickhouseConfig.test.ts in the same tag

e2e_tests/tests/dockerConfiguration/distributionMethodSshKey.test.ts:10

const amiPort = 446;

clickhouseConfig.test.ts:8 publishes 446:8443 for pmm-server-default-clickhouse-config, and both files are tagged @docker-configuration, so they run in the same job on the same host. Taken ports in that directory today: 444, 445 (srvFolder), 446, 447, 448 (clickhouseConfig), 449 (clickHouse). 450 is free.

It probably passes today by luck rather than design: playwright.config.ts:42 defaults to one worker and the runner never overrides it, file order is alphabetical so clickhouseConfig goes first, and its afterEach removes all three containers. But retries: 2 and Launchable subsetting/reordering both sit on top of that, and the reference is explicit that a colliding shared resource gets fixed rather than serialized around. Free to avoid — take 450.

Fix this →

🟡 The docker run result is never checked, so a start failure surfaces as the wrong assertion

distributionMethodSshKey.test.ts:78-83

execSilent is called bare. If docker run fails — name or port conflict, bad image — and something else is listening on that port, waitForReady returns 200 against that container and the test dies on line 83 claiming the distribution method is wrong. The real cause is in a discarded stdout.

clickhouseConfig.test.ts has the same gap, but it also demonstrates the fix — .assertSuccess() on the execSilent return. Worth adding here since this test's failure mode is actively misleading.

🟡 page.url() reads are not web-first

distributionMethodSshKey.test.ts:41 and :99

expect(new URL(page.url()).pathname).toEqual(settingsPage.url);

A one-shot read of a URL that a client-side redirect is expected to have changed. The preceding expect(tabs.metrics) mostly covers for it, but await expect(page).toHaveURL(...) auto-retries and is what the reference asks for. Both call sites.

🟡 The comment at :12-13 describes something the code does not do

// The AMI container is brand new, so it does not inherit the suite's server password: give it the
// one GrafanaHelper defaults to, otherwise every authenticated call against it is a 401.
const adminPassword = process.env.ADMIN_PASSWORD || 'admin';

It says "the one GrafanaHelper defaults to", but the const prefers ADMIN_PASSWORD — which is the suite's password when it is set, i.e. the opposite of what the first clause claims. The line is self-evident from grafana.helper.ts:56 anyway (same expression). Per house style, delete it; if you want one line, say only why the password is passed to docker run at all.

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Nits

• 🔵 :40 repeats expect(settingsPage.tabs.ssh).toHaveCount(0) from :33 — the redirect step only needs to establish where it landed.
• 🔵 :59 expect(settingsAfter.settings.ssh_key).toEqual(settingsBefore.settings.ssh_key) is undefined === undefined on a Docker server. It does have teeth against a partial persist, but toBeUndefined() states the invariant directly and there is no server-derived value on both sides of the comparison.
• 🔵 api/server.api.ts:19 getDistributionMethod returns string, and both call sites compare against DISTRIBUTION_METHOD_* literals — a union type would let tsc catch a typo in the literal. pomRules asks for this on parameters; same argument applies to a closed-set return.
• 🔵 api/server.api.ts:21 ignoreHTTPSErrors: true is redundant (playwright.config.ts:37 sets it globally) and inconsistent with getPmmVersion right below, which hits the same endpoint without it.
• 🔵 api/server.api.ts:14 distribution_method is non-optional on VersionResponse, which getPmmVersion also casts to. Optional matches reality on a server that predates the field.
• 🔵 :86 grafanaHelper.authorize is the only bare statement between four steps.

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On the body and CI

Two claims to adjust. @docker-configuration is not in the nightly matrix — the only references anywhere are fb-e2e-suite.yml:372 and :384. e2e-tests-matrix.yml and nightly-e2e-tests-matrix.yml do not run the tag. So these tests are reachable, but only from an FB build; nothing on this PR exercises them (lint is green, E2E tests Matrix is still running and does not include the tag). Combined with the body's own note that PMM-T2283's docker run plumbing was never executed, that command line gets its first real run on someone's FB build. Worth a submodules FB run before merge.

Second, the body lists "the API refusing an ssh_key off AMI, including the OVF change" among what this covers — the diff only tests Docker. Nothing exercises OVF, and PMM-T2282:26 hard-asserts DISTRIBUTION_METHOD_DOCKER. Fine as scope; just say Docker.

Your PMM-T85 question

Retire the dead branch. An early-return that never fires is a test reporting green while running nothing, which is worse than no test — and PMM-T89 sitting commented out next to it is the same debt. Let PMM-T2283 own the AMI side, since it is the only thing that can actually produce an AMI-reporting server. I would not fold it into this PR though: it touches the CodeceptJS suite and deserves its own diff so a revert is clean.

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Nothing here is merge-stopping on its own, but the port and the unchecked docker run interact badly enough that I would take both first. Per the review skill I have not run the branch's own lint or tsc — CI covers those on this SHA and lint is green.
· branch claude/epic-hopper-nel1d2

[travagliad]

@claude great review there buddy, implement it all!

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Review implemented — but I could not push

All eight items are applied and committed locally as 2151b14, but the push was rejected: remote: Permission to percona/pmm-qa.git denied to github-actions[bot] (403), on both the action's push script and a retry. So nothing has landed on claude/epic-hopper-nel1d2 — the diff is below for you to apply.

• Move the AMI container off host port 446 → 450
• .assertSuccess() on the docker run
• Web-first toHaveURL at both call sites
• Drop the misleading password comment
• Nits: duplicate tab assertion, toBeUndefined(), union return type, ignoreHTTPSErrors, optional distribution_method, authorize wrapped in a step
• Lint + tsc — e2e_tests/node_modules is absent in this checkout and npm ci is not in my allowlist, so I ran neither. CI will.
• Push — blocked (403)

Notes on a couple of choices

• toHaveURL form. Used new RegExp(\${settingsPage.url}$`)rather than the bare string, matchingchangeTheme.test.ts:37. A string is resolved against baseURL` and compared whole, which would break if the app ever appends a query param; the anchored regex keeps the original pathname semantics while retrying.
• toBeUndefined() on both sides. settingsBefore is now asserted too, so the before-value being absent is a stated precondition rather than an implicit one — otherwise the variable would have been dead.
• The union type is a cast, not a validation. getDistributionMethod returns DistributionMethod | undefined now, since distribution_method became optional. It buys typo-checking at the call sites; it does not verify the server sent a member of the set.
• Left alone deliberately: retiring PMM-T85's dead branch (belongs in its own CodeceptJS diff, as said), and the PR body's OVF/nightly claims — those are yours to edit.

Patch (git apply from repo root)

diff --git a/e2e_tests/api/server.api.ts b/e2e_tests/api/server.api.ts
index c4c1e6f..6da0546 100644
--- a/e2e_tests/api/server.api.ts
+++ b/e2e_tests/api/server.api.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ import GrafanaHelper from '@helpers/grafana.helper';
 import { Timeouts } from '@helpers/timeouts';
 import apiEndpoints from '@helpers/apiEndpoints';
 
+export type DistributionMethod =
+  | 'DISTRIBUTION_METHOD_AMI'
+  | 'DISTRIBUTION_METHOD_AZURE'
+  | 'DISTRIBUTION_METHOD_DO'
+  | 'DISTRIBUTION_METHOD_DOCKER'
+  | 'DISTRIBUTION_METHOD_OVF'
+  | 'DISTRIBUTION_METHOD_UNSPECIFIED';
+
 export interface PmmVersion {
   major: number;
   minor: number;
@@ -11,17 +19,16 @@ export interface PmmVersion {
 }
 
 interface VersionResponse {
-  distribution_method: string;
+  distribution_method?: DistributionMethod;
   version: string;
 }
 
 export default class ServerApi {
   constructor(private request: APIRequestContext) {}
 
-  getDistributionMethod = async (): Promise<string> => {
+  getDistributionMethod = async (): Promise<DistributionMethod | undefined> => {
     const response = await this.request.get(apiEndpoints.server.version, {
       headers: GrafanaHelper.getAuthHeader(),
-      ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
     });
 
     expect(response.status()).toEqual(200);
diff --git a/e2e_tests/tests/dockerConfiguration/distributionMethodSshKey.test.ts b/e2e_tests/tests/dockerConfiguration/distributionMethodSshKey.test.ts
index d40f3b2..87837bb 100644
--- a/e2e_tests/tests/dockerConfiguration/distributionMethodSshKey.test.ts
+++ b/e2e_tests/tests/dockerConfiguration/distributionMethodSshKey.test.ts
@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@ import { Timeouts } from '@helpers/timeouts';
 const sshKey =
   'ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIEtU7ftdqg3rdRcv06kPAOnKX+WRmHlnG2UBpUNKw65h pmm-qa@distribution-method-test';
 const amiContainerName = 'pmm-server-distribution-ami';
-const amiPort = 446;
+const amiPort = 450;
 const dockerVersion = process.env.DOCKER_VERSION || 'perconalab/pmm-server:3-dev-latest';
-// The AMI container is brand new, so it does not inherit the suite's server password: give it the
-// one GrafanaHelper defaults to, otherwise every authenticated call against it is a 401.
+// Stamped on the AMI container at creation so it matches what the suite authenticates with.
 const adminPassword = process.env.ADMIN_PASSWORD || 'admin';
 
 pmmTest.describe('SSH key settings follow the PMM Server distribution method.', () => {
@@ -37,8 +36,7 @@ pmmTest.describe('SSH key settings follow the PMM Server distribution method.',
         await page.goto(settingsPage.urls.ssh);
 
         await expect(settingsPage.tabs.metrics).toHaveAttribute('aria-selected', 'true');
-        await expect(settingsPage.tabs.ssh).toHaveCount(0);
-        expect(new URL(page.url()).pathname).toEqual(settingsPage.url);
+        await expect(page).toHaveURL(new RegExp(`${settingsPage.url}$`));
       });
 
       await pmmTest.step('The server refuses an SSH key', async () => {
@@ -56,7 +54,8 @@ pmmTest.describe('SSH key settings follow the PMM Server distribution method.',
 
         const settingsAfter = await api.settingsApi.getSettings();
 
-        expect(settingsAfter.settings.ssh_key).toEqual(settingsBefore.settings.ssh_key);
+        expect(settingsBefore.settings.ssh_key).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(settingsAfter.settings.ssh_key).toBeUndefined();
       });
     },
   );
@@ -75,15 +74,19 @@ pmmTest.describe('SSH key settings on an AMI deployment.', () => {
     'PMM-T2283 - Verify the SSH key tab is available on an AMI deployment @docker-configuration',
     async ({ api, cliHelper, grafanaHelper, page, settingsPage }) => {
       await pmmTest.step('Start a PMM Server that reports the AMI distribution method', async () => {
-        cliHelper.execSilent(
-          `docker run --detach --restart always --network="pmm-qa" -e PMM_ENABLE_TELEMETRY=0 -e PMM_DISTRIBUTION_METHOD=ami -e GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${adminPassword} --publish ${amiPort}:8443 --name ${amiContainerName} ${dockerVersion}`,
-        );
+        cliHelper
+          .execSilent(
+            `docker run --detach --restart always --network="pmm-qa" -e PMM_ENABLE_TELEMETRY=0 -e PMM_DISTRIBUTION_METHOD=ami -e GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${adminPassword} --publish ${amiPort}:8443 --name ${amiContainerName} ${dockerVersion}`,
+          )
+          .assertSuccess();
         await api.serverApi.waitForReady(Timeouts.FIVE_MINUTES);
 
         expect(await api.serverApi.getDistributionMethod()).toEqual('DISTRIBUTION_METHOD_AMI');
       });
 
-      await grafanaHelper.authorize('admin', adminPassword, baseUrl);
+      await pmmTest.step('Authorize against the AMI server', async () => {
+        await grafanaHelper.authorize('admin', adminPassword, baseUrl);
+      });
 
       await pmmTest.step('Settings page offers the SSH key tab', async () => {
         await page.goto(settingsPage.url);
@@ -96,7 +99,7 @@ pmmTest.describe('SSH key settings on an AMI deployment.', () => {
         await page.goto(settingsPage.urls.ssh);
 
         await expect(settingsPage.tabs.ssh).toHaveAttribute('aria-selected', 'true');
-        expect(new URL(page.url()).pathname).toEqual(settingsPage.urls.ssh);
+        await expect(page).toHaveURL(new RegExp(`${settingsPage.urls.ssh}$`));
       });
     },
   );

The 403 is a token-permission thing on this job, not something I can work around from here — more in the FAQ. Re-run me once the workflow can push, or apply the patch above and run npm run lint in e2e_tests/.
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🔴 This is still open rather than a draft, although the body's own DO NOT MERGE says it is blocked on percona/pmm#5744 — mark it draft until that lands.

The Validation section reports PMM-T2283's three assertions as passed; on this head SHA the test dies in fixture setup before the first one (thread on versionGates.ts), and the FB-image run credited for PMM-T2282 is not linked. That section also says the AMI server starts on port 446, which is clickhouseConfig.test.ts's port — the code uses 450.

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Hold lifted — the PR is green and ready for review.

percona/pmm#5744 merged to pmm main today at 09:37 UTC, which was the only thing this PR was waiting on. pmm3-server-autobuild #2699 started 11:36 UTC and published the 3-dev-latest that carries the fix (sha256:089421150e…, the digest the job pulled and Docker Hub still serves for the tag).

I re-ran the one failed job on the unchanged head 2f26775. Job 100349511933:

✓ 5 … PMM-T2282 - Verify the SSH key tab is hidden and its URL redirects on a non-AMI deployment (4.2s)
✓ 6 … PMM-T2283 - Verify the SSH key tab is available on an AMI deployment (28.3s)
8 passed (7.3m)

Launchable confidence was 100%, so nothing was subset out and neither test was version-gated away — this is the first time both assertions have actually executed and passed in CI. PMM-T2282 is the one that could not pass before #5744; it now does, against dev-latest, which is also the evidence that the shared @docker-configuration job will stay green after merge.

Changes made in response: the DO NOT MERGE block is out of the description, the blocked label is removed, and the Validation section now cites this run. No code changed, so no push — the head is the same commit the reviewers already have. All seven earlier review threads are resolved and claude-review is green.

@peterSirotnak @yurkovychv this is unblocked whenever you have a moment. One open question from the description worth your call rather than mine: PMM-T85 in the CodeceptJS suite covers the same intent as PMM-T2283 but can never execute, since no job there runs an AMI-stamped server — happy to retire its dead branch in a follow-up if you'd prefer PMM-T2283 own that side outright.

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[travagliad]

Correcting my comment above, and a real bug fixed in 5ccdf13.

I said the re-run was "the first time both assertions have actually executed and passed in CI". That was wrong for PMM-T2283. Its pass depended on test ordering: it carried a minPmmVersion entry, and the auto versionGate fixture resolves the server version through the describe's own baseURL — 127.0.0.1:450, which nothing serves until the test body starts the container. It only got through because launchable happened to schedule clickHouse/clickhouseConfig first, filling getServerVersion's per-worker promise cache. Run first in a worker, it dies in fixture setup before any assertion.

The Aug-28 run was the evidence I walked past: 12 results, 6 passed, 2 actionable failures — PMM-T2282 (pre-#5744) and PMM-T2283. I read that as one failure attributable to #5744 and did not check the second.

5ccdf13 drops the gate for PMM-T2283, which needs none — it asserts the tab is offered on an AMI-stamped server, and that held before #5744 too, since the tab then showed on every distribution. Only PMM-T2282, which asserts absence, is version-sensitive, and its describe uses the default baseURL so its gate resolves normally. Reproduced in isolation before and after; details and stacks on the versionGates.ts thread. The same commit drops a redundant pmmTest.step wrapper per the other finding.

What stands from before: PMM-T2282 genuinely passes against a 3-dev-latest that carries #5744, so the shared @docker-configuration job will not go red on merge. The hold and the blocked label stay lifted.

Also, apologies for the stray "placeholder" reply on the #5744 thread — wrong thread id, and review comments cannot be deleted; it is retracted in place.

CI is running on 5ccdf13; I'll report the result.

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[travagliad]

Green on 5ccdf13. All 41 checks on the head are success or skipped; nothing failing.

The Playwright @docker-configuration leg (job 100356972463) reports 8 found, 8 passed, 0 failed against perconalab/pmm-server:3-dev-latest sha256:089421150e…, launchable confidence 100% so nothing was subset out. The CodeceptJS leg sharing the same check name is green too.

Worth being precise about what that does and does not prove. It confirms both tests work end to end against a dev-latest carrying percona/pmm#5744. It does not, on its own, prove the ordering dependence is gone — a green run is what we got last time by luck. What proves it is the fix being structural: with no minPmmVersion entry, the versionGate fixture takes the if (minVersion) branch not at all, so the :450 request cannot happen regardless of scheduling. That was verified in isolation before and after, on the versionGates.ts thread.

One note on a red check you may have seen and can ignore. Lint failed on the first attempt for a reason unrelated to this PR: ensure_actionlint fetches the pinned 1.7.7 binary from GitHub releases and the transfer was reset —

==> actionlint
curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
  FAIL: actionlint not installed

— so lint-changed.sh:74 turned a missing tool into a hard failure. This PR changes four TypeScript files and no workflows (git diff --name-only origin/main...HEAD), actionlint only reads .github/workflows/**, the e2e half of that same job printed Lint OK, and Lint was green on main 28 minutes earlier. I re-ran it once and it passed.

That failure mode will keep hitting unrelated pmm-qa PRs at random, since .claude/hooks/lib/install-linters.sh:80 has no retry. --retry 3 --retry-delay 2 --retry-all-errors on that curl is the two-line fix; I have deliberately kept it out of this test-only PR and am happy to open it separately.

Nothing else outstanding from my side — @peterSirotnak @yurkovychv over to you. The PMM-T85 question from the description is still the one call I would rather you made than me.

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[travagliad]

Scope cut down to the one test that matters, per the discussion above. 021668d:

• PMM-T2283 removed along with the container, port 450 and the PMM_DISTRIBUTION_METHOD=ami simulation. Its Zephyr case is now Deprecated. The AMI side belongs to the tests that run against real AMI deployments.
• PMM-T2282 kept — the non-AMI case: no SSH key tab, the URL redirects, and the server refuses an ssh_key. Net effect on the diff is 52 lines deleted.

I checked whether an existing test already covered this before keeping mine, and none does. The only other references to the SSH tab are locators plus CodeceptJS PMM-T85, which navigates to the SSH URL only when the distribution is AMI, so it never executes its assertions in CI and never asserted the absence.

@settings looked like the natural home but does not work: the Playwright tags any workflow actually selects are @LBAC, @alerting, @docker-configuration, @inventory|@image-renderer, @new-navigation|@menu, @pmm-ps-integration, @pmm-ps-pxc-haproxy-integration, @pmm-psmdb-integration, @pmm-valkey-integration, @rta. @settings|@cli runs on the CodeceptJS runner only, so Playwright tests tagged @settings — portalRemoval.test.ts and its siblings — never execute. That looks like an unrelated gap worth someone's attention. @docker-configuration is the Playwright job that runs on a plain Docker server, which is this test's precondition, and it is where PMM-T2282 already passes.

Title and description updated to match the narrower scope. CI is re-running on 021668d.

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