RHN Satellite errors: <ProtocolError for satellite.rhn.redhat.com:443: 503 Service Unavailable>
Hello All,
Please forgive me if this has been covered before or if this is the wrong place; I'm new here, but I did search quite extensively on the portal and google before relenting and posting here.
While checking the daily sync logs this morning I discovered a new error with our RHN Satellite:
00:15:03 Red Hat Network Satellite - live synchronization
00:15:03 url: https://satellite.rhn.redhat.com
00:15:03 debug/output level: 1
00:16:03
00:16:03
ERROR: there was a problem synchronizing the information.
Error message: <ProtocolError for satellite.rhn.redhat.com:443: 503 Service Unavailable>
I logged into the satellite and am able to replicate this error line many times througout the running of satellite-sync, with the final debug traceback showing this:
9:52:49 ERROR: http error code :503; fault code: 0;
Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/threading.py", line 442, in __bootstrap
self.run()
File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 2129, in run
package_id, nvrea, self.sources)
File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 2070, in _get_package_stream
stream = rpmServer.getPackageStream(channel, nvrea)
File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/xmlWireSource.py", line 480, in getPackageStream
return self._rpc_call("getPackage", (channel, package_name))
File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/xmlWireSource.py", line 447, in _rpc_call
ret = apply(getattr(get_server_obj, function_name), params)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 678, in __call__
result = self._send(self._name, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 387, in _request
raise pe
ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for satellite.rhn.redhat.com:443: 503 Service Unavailable>
This is a sudden development as our satellite server and network infra haven't changed a bit. I thought it might have been an outage but cannot find anyone else talking about it, and can get as far as an HTTP 403 error when browsing manually to satellite.rhn.redhat.com:443, so the site appears to be fine.
Anyone have any advice on what else to check?
Some details: RHN Satellite version 5.4.1, embedded DB.
Thanks!