<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/14/2014 07:44 AM, Dhaval Oza wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:5322A530.7030900@i-link.co.in" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><big>rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://192.168.12.52/XMLRPC">http://192.168.12.52/XMLRPC</a> --activationkey=<Key-with-rhel-custom-channel></big></pre> </blockquote> I don't like this command, can you please run "rhn_check -vv" at the client? When I register client using IP address I'm getting folowing errors during rhn_check: <tt># rhn_check -vv</tt><tt> </tt><tt>...</tt><tt> </tt><tt>D: local action status: ((6,), 'Fatal error in Python code occured', {})</tt><tt> </tt><tt>D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message</tt><tt> </tt> <tt># tail -f /var/log/update ... [Tue Mar 18 09:37:32 2014] up2date </tt><tt> </tt><tt>Traceback (most recent call last):</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 338, in __run_action</tt><tt> </tt><tt> (status, message, data) = CheckCli.__do_call(method, params, kwargs)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 330, in __do_call</tt><tt> </tt><tt> method = getMethod.getMethod(method, "/usr/share/rhn/", "actions")</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/getMethod.py", line 78, in getMethod</tt><tt> </tt><tt> actions = __import__(modulename)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/share/rhn/actions/packages.py", line 270, in <module></tt><tt> </tt><tt> yum_base = YumAction()</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/share/rhn/actions/packages.py", line 65, in __init__</tt><tt> </tt><tt> self.doTsSetup()</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 84, in doTsSetup</tt><tt> </tt><tt> return self._getTs()</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 99, in _getTs</tt><tt> </tt><tt> self._getTsInfo(remove_only)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 110, in _getTsInfo</tt><tt> </tt><tt> pkgSack = self.pkgSack</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 887, in <lambda></tt><tt> </tt><tt> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 669, in _getSacks</tt><tt> </tt><tt> self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 308, in populateSack</tt><tt> </tt><tt> sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 165, in populate</tt><tt> </tt><tt> if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 223, in _check_db_version</tt><tt> </tt><tt> return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1256, in _check_db_version</tt><tt> </tt><tt> repoXML = self.repoXML</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1455, in <lambda></tt><tt> </tt><tt> repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 566, in _getRepoXML</tt><tt> </tt><tt> return YumRepository._getRepoXML(self)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1451, in _getRepoXML</tt><tt> </tt><tt> raise Errors.RepoError, msg</tt><tt> </tt><tt><class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-x86_64-server-6. Please verify its path and try again</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>[Tue Mar 18 09:37:32 2014] up2date D: local action status: ((6,), 'Fatal error in Python code occured', {})</tt><tt> </tt><tt>[Tue Mar 18 09:37:32 2014] up2date D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message</tt><tt> </tt> As you can read from the log yum-rhn-plugin is not able to retrieve repository metada, when I use IP address to access SW server. Is that your case? If so, just use hostname that's in your SW server certificate. Or you can disable SSL for clients (not recommended, not tested). Regards, <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Lukas Pramuk QA Engineer (RHCE, RHCVA) Systems Management QA, Red Hat</pre> </body> </html>