[Satellite6] goferd is unable to communicate with Satellite 6

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Issue

  • Clients is unable to communicate with Satellite 6.
  • Errata apply fails with following error message
Host did not respond within 20 seconds. Is katello-agent installed and goferd running on the Host
  • goferd is unable to communicate with the satellite.
  • Following below warning error message under /var/log/message
Oct  9 14:27:04 satellite_fqdn goferd: [INFO][MainThread] rhsm.connection:661 - Using certificate authentication: key = /etc/pki/consumer/key.pem, cert = /etc/pki/consumer/cert.pem, ca = /etc/rhsm/ca/, insecure = False
Oct  9 14:27:04 satellite_fqdn goferd: [INFO][MainThread] rhsm.connection:674 - Connection Built: host:host.example.com, port: 443, handler: /rhsm
Oct  9 14:27:04 satellite_fqdn goferd: [WARNING][MainThread] katelloplugin:87 - 'ca_cert_dir'

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and older version
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
  • subscription-manager-1.1.23-1.el6.x86_64 and older version

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