Unable to update certified Amazon EC2 RHEL 6.3 images using certificate based management(RHSM)

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Issue

  • Unable to update certified Amazon EC2 RHEL 6.3 images using certificate based management(RHSM)
  • Certified Amazon EC2 RHEL 6.3 images may get the following messages when running a yum command:
Loaded plugins: amazon-id, product-id, rhui-lb, security, subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity

This machine has not been registered and therefore has
no access to security and other critical updates. Please
register using subscription-manager.

Environment

  • Amazon EC2 RHEL 6.3 Instances
  • Certificate Based Management
  • subscription-manager

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