Why are Satellite clients not getting patched?
Environment
- Red Hat Network Satellite or Proxy
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Guest/VM)
- VMware Virtualization Host
Issue
- Unable to get to the Satellite GUI via web browser on some other system but can get to it locally on the actual server.
- When attempting a
yum updateon one of the clients, it just sits for a while atLoaded plugins: rhnplugin, securityand then times out.
Resolution
- Reinstall
vmware-toolspackage which is provided by VMware.
Root Cause
- NIC configuration on the guest was dead.
- Reinstalling
vmware-toolsresolves the issue
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