Running puppet agent on client of Red Hat Satellite 6 fails with: Error: The certificate retrieved from the master does not match the agent's private key

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When running puppet agent -tv the following error is found:
    The certificate retrieved from the master does not match the agent's private key

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8, 7

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