Spacewalk Client Fails to Register Using rhnreg_ks it Fails with Service Unavailable (Doc ID 2634451.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Applies to:

Symptoms

unable to register a server to SPW server using:

 # rhnreg_ks --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT \


   --serverUrl=https://swksvr_FQDN/XMLRPC --activationkey=activation_key 
 An error has occurred:
 rhn-plugin: Error communicating with server. The message was:
 Service Unavailable
 See /var/log/up2date for more information 

----------  

 /var/log/up2date shows:

<class 'up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError'>: rhn-plugin: Error communicating with server. The message was:
Service Unavailable

Changes

 n/a

Cause

My Oracle Support provides customers with access to over a million knowledge articles and a vibrant support community of peers and Oracle experts.