Red Hat Satellite hosts running yum display the message: "Error: requested datatype primary not available"

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Issue

When running yum on a host attached to a Red Hat Satellite or Capsule, yum returns the following error:

Error: requested datatype primary not available

Yum fails to run and the package count for the affect repository is zero.

Environment

Red Hat Satellite 6

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