Registering a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system through Blue Coat Proxy

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4

Issue

  • Proxy directives not correctly set.

Resolution

  • Add the following directive in Blue Coat proxy to disable certificate validation for traffic on the domain "redhat.com"
<proxy>
url.domain="redhat.com" server.certificate.validate(no)

Root Cause

  • Blue Coat proxy was attempting to validate your ssl connection resulting in ssl handshake failure.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Subscription-manager output:
[root@broken ~]# subscription-manager register --auto-attach --username=proxy_man --password=proxy_pass

sslv3 alert handshake failure

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