Yum commands fails with error no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'loadbalancer.example.com' in Red Hat Satellite 6

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Issue

  • Any yum command execution on the Client hosts connected to capsule server via loadbalancer fails with following error.

    [root@rhel8 ~]# yum install katello-agent
    Updating Subscription Management repositories.
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)  0.0  B/s |   0  B     00:00
    Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms':
     - Curl error (51): SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK for https://loadbalancer.example.com/pulp/repos/My_Org/Test/RHEL8/content/dist/rhel8/8/x86_64/baseos/os/repodata/repomd.xml [SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'loadbalancer.example.com']
    Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Capsule 6
  • HA proxy / Load Balancer

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