System registration fails with error System certificates corrupted. Please reregister on content host registering to Red Hat Satellite 6

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9
• Red Hat Satellite 6.2

Issue

• System registration fails with error

System certificates corrupted. Please re-register.  

• Problem registering host to Satellite Server
• Error when running # subscription-manager status

Resolution

• The product certificate for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (69.pem) was edited. The **----BEGIN part was missing, which was restored. **
• Subscription manager details were cleaned.

# subscription-manager clean

• Host was again registered to Satellite

# subscription-manager register --org=<"Organization_Name"> --activationkey="<Activation Key Name>"

• Check the date and time of the host is synced.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Client Subscription Issues, please refer to the Red Hat Satellite Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Client Subscription Issues

Diagnostic Steps

• Verify the validity of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Product Certificate

# rct cat-cert /etc/pki/product/69.pem 

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