[Satellite6] goferd is unable to communicate with Satellite 6
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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