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  • Red Hat Insights - Bad status from server: 401

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    Since two days I'm experiencing an issue with

    insights-client
    - I receive the message "Bad status from server: 401 | This machine has not yet been registered". As one can see in the screenshot down below, the systems are already registered. The same happened some days ago, but as the problem only occurred once, I assumed that it was just a temporary outage of the insights service. Now it turned into being a permanent problem ...

    Does anybody have an idea what's going on and how (if it's possible to be done from users side at all) to solve this problem ? Here are more details :

    $ sudo insights-client
    Bad status from server: 401
    Bad status from server: 401
    Bad status from server: 401
    This machine has not yet been registered.
    Use --register to register this machine.
    
    $ sudo insights-client --status
    Bad status from server: 401
    Bad status from server: 401
    Bad status from server: 401
    System is NOT registered locally via .registered file.
    Insights API could not be reached to confirm registration status.
    
    $ sudo insights-client --test-connection
    Bad status from server: 401
    Connection test config:
    Proxy config: None
    Certificate Verification: /etc/insights-client/cert-api.access.redhat.com.pem
    === Begin Certificate Chain Test ===
    depth=1
    verify error:num=0
    verify return:1
    depth=0
    verify error:num=0
    verify return:1
    ---
    Certificate chain
    0 s :/C=US/ST=NORTH CAROLINA/L=Raleigh/O=Red Hat/OU=Red Hat Network/CN=cert-api.access.redhat.com
      i :/C=US/ST=North Carolina/L=Raleigh/O=Red Hat, Inc./OU=Red Hat Network/CN=Entitlement Master CA/emailAddress=ca-support@redhat.com
    1 s :/C=US/ST=North Carolina/L=Raleigh/O=Red Hat, Inc./OU=Red Hat Network/CN=Entitlement Master CA/emailAddress=ca-support@redhat.com
      i :/C=US/ST=North Carolina/L=Raleigh/O=Red Hat, Inc./OU=Red Hat Network/CN=Entitlement Master CA/emailAddress=ca-support@redhat.com
    ---
    Server certificate
    -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
    MIIFfTCCA2WgAwIBAgIJAJGKz8qFAAADMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAMIGwMQswCQYD
    VQQGEwJVUzEXMBUGA1UECAwOTm9ydGggQ2Fyb2xpbmExEDAOBgNVBAcMB1JhbGVp
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    Ew9SZWQgSGF0IE5ldHdvcmsxIzAhBgNVBAMTGmNlcnQtYXBpLmFjY2Vzcy5yZWRo
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    gl7OexNL4zcpyfMdAmTYf5yTRSvB42Yg5hVfuzPEnOIqupwES3mWkEHRlqbMUkHw
    qIQAxIwQqZd5PdPpElQ/6j/ZT9DwW/I6zgndX2rsS0oGYcwFTkSj0/rKKkC13hk7
    LchXMZu5ckdustM79U6OZIBairrJaL2OpR08un2nwIjgEGqhVFYc44UK1VpkE8mr
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    Yb1NSDcJejHJ80pMINutyYQ=
    -----END CERTIFICATE-----
    
    subject=/C=US/ST=NORTH CAROLINA/L=Raleigh/O=Red Hat/OU=Red Hat Network/CN=cert-api.access.redhat.com
    issuer=/C=US/ST=North Carolina/L=Raleigh/O=Red Hat, Inc./OU=Red Hat Network/CN=Entitlement Master CA/emailAddress=ca-support@redhat.com
    ---
    === End Certificate Chain Test: SUCCESS ===
    
    === Begin Upload URL Connection Test ===
    Testing: https://cert-api.access.redhat.com/r/insights/uploads/
    HTTP Status Code: 401
    HTTP Status Text: Unauthorized
    Connection failed
    === End Upload URL Connection Test: FAILURE ===
    
    === Begin API URL Connection Test ===
    Testing: https://cert-api.access.redhat.com/r/insights/
    HTTP Status Code: 200
    HTTP Status Text: OK
    Successfully connected to: https://cert-api.access.redhat.com/r/insights/
    === End API URL Connection Test: SUCCESS ===
    
    
    Connectivity tests completed with some errors
    Failed connection test.  See /var/log/insights-client/insights-client.log for details.
    
    $ sudo insights-client --version
    Client: 3.0.2-2
    Core: 3.0.3-1
    

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