Red Hat Satellite upgrade from 6.2.14 to 6.3 fails with Could not evaluate: Exception Connection refused - connect(2)

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Issue

  • Red Hat Satellite upgrade from 6.2.14 to 6.3 fails with below error:
[ERROR 2018-04-04 12:21:24 main]  /Stage[main]/Foreman_proxy::Register/Foreman_smartproxy[satellite.example.com]: Could not evaluate: Exception Connection refused - connect(2) in get request to: https://satellite.example.com/api/v2/smart_proxies?search=name=%22satellite.example.com%22
  • API call to https://satellite.example.com/api/v2/smart_proxies?search=name=%22satellite.example.com%22 works but during installer it fails to connect.

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.2.z
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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