Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x hammer-related Issues

Issues

• hammer is failing on Red Hat Satellite 6
• "hammer ping" command on the Satellite Server fails with the following error - Could not load the API description from the server: Server broke connection - is the server down?
• The hammer command timeout setting is not respected by the Red Hat Satellite server
• Hammer fails to execute an Ansible playbook with "ERROR! 'name' is a required field for include_role." but the playbook works using Satellite GUI
• hammer user-group external create command fails with a Could not create external user group error
• The "hammer ping" command shows pulp and pulp_auth as failed even after upgrading to Red Hat Satellite 6.10
• Hammer command fails with "Error Failed to open TCP connection to getaddrinfo: Name or service not known"
• Hammer CLI fails with error Resource organization not found by id X
• Hammer commands fails with error "Could not load the API description from the server - is the server down?"
• Hammer commands failing with SSL certificate error on Red Hat Satellite 6.
• Hammer commands throws error "undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass"
• Running "hammer csv content-hosts --export" command fails with "500 internal Server Error" on Red Hat Satellite 6 server.
• Satellite hammer cli can't synchronize capsule content by environment name
• "hammer capsule content available-lifecycle-environments" should not list environments already attached to capsule server
• Could not deploy Virt-who configuration on Red Hat Satellite using hammer.
• Hammer fails with Association not found for location in Red Hat Satellite 6.
• Unable to add repositories to the content view using a hammer on Red Hat Satellite 6.
• [Satellite 6] Hammer commands are failing with Error: Request Timeout.
• "hammer auth-source ldap list" shows "404 Resource Not Found"
• Hammer cannot create/import SSL Certificates or SSL Keys
• I need a hammer (CLI) command that will cancel jobs
• Hammer ping fails to respond after upgrading Red Hat Satellite to v.6.7
• [Satellite6] Calling hammer commands concurrently raises 500 ISE error on apidoc / apipie

How To

• Hammer cheat sheet
• How to setup hammer API request timeout on Satellite 6
• Configure password less login for hammer command line tool.
• How to check "Last Checkin" time of content hosts using Hammer command on Red Hat Satellite 6
• How to install and configure hammer cli on any remote clients of Red Hat Satellite or Capsule 6.X ?
• [Satellite 6.x] How to generate a patch report for all content hosts registered to Satellite
• To find out the list of content hosts that requires a reboot of server on Red Hat Satellite 6.
• Using hammer to create a satellite user-group authenticated via AD
• How to use option Always use latest provided by Red Hat Satellite 6 with hammer command line while adding a content view in composite content view.
• How to remove job-invocation using hammer cli?
• How to print the complete input of a REX job using the hammer command line on Red Hat Satellite 6?
• How to modify subnet configurations of a content host using hammer CLI in Red Hat Satellite 6?
• How to remove old content view versions in Red Hat Satellite 6 using CLI/hammer?
• List all available packages for host in Red Hat Satellite using hammer
• How to find the subscription consumption via Satellite CLI?
• How to install and configure hammer cli on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 client?
• How to encrypt the password stored in ~/.hammer/cli.modules.d/foreman.yml file?
• How to authenticate hammer using SSL certificate instead of username/password?

Q & A

• Is there a way to see the status of the capsule synchronization via hammer?
• Authenticating remote hammer actions against Red Hat Satellite with an API Key