Red Hat Satellite Certificate activation fails with error 'No free channel slots for server in channel redhat-rhn-satellite'

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Issue

  • Red Hat Satellite Certificate activation fails with error 'No free channel slots for server in channel redhat-rhn-satellite'
  • The complete error is :
RHN_PARENT: satellite.rhn.redhat.com Error reported from RHN: <Fault -211: 'No free channel slots for server <system_id> in channel redhat-rhn-satellite-5.4-server-x86_64-5'>
ERROR: unhandled XMLRPC fault upon remote activation: <Fault -211: 'No free channel slots for server <system_id> in channel redhat-rhn-satellite-5.4-server-x86_64-5'>

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.4
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.5
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6
  • Satellite Certificate Activation

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