[Satellite6] how to mimic from command line repository sync requests that are failing?

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

Red Hat Satellite 6.2 or newer

  • including Sat 6.10+ with pulp-3

Issue

  • having proxy configured or some non-standard networking paths between Satellite and cdn.redhat.com / Akamai servers
  • repository synchronize fails with connection error or file not found
  • alternatively, Capsule sync from Satellite fails under similar circumstances
  • Is there a way how to mimic the failing repository sync requests, but from command line?

Resolution

Run the attached script with an argument of pulp repository id or with a feed URL. Expected output is something like: 

# ./test_pulp-anyversion_sync_requests.sh 3cefb76b-7c41-4446-9806-7077ceaccd0f
trying command:

curl -i --cacert ./ssl_ca_cert.3cefb76b-7c41-4446-9806-7077ceaccd0f.crt --cert ./ssl_client_cert.3cefb76b-7c41-4446-9806-7077ceaccd0f.crt --key ./ssl_client_key.3cefb76b-7c41-4446-9806-7077ceaccd0f.crt https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/resilientstorage/os

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 810
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 09:21:31 GMT
X-Cache: TCP_HIT from a173-223-52-56.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (AkamaiGHost/9.6.2.0.1-25325260) (-)
Connection: keep-alive
EJ-HOST: edgejavaappa3.prod.a4.vary.redhat.com
X-Akamai-Request-ID: 10d554ec

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<HTML>
 <HEAD>
  <TITLE>Index of /98675/rcm/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/resilientstorage/os</TITLE>
 </HEAD>
 <BODY>
<H1>Index of /98675/rcm/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/resilientstorage/os</H1>
<PRE>   <A HREF="?N=D">Name</A>                              <A HREF="?M=A">Last modified</A>        <A HREF="?S=A">Size</A>  
<HR>
<IMG SRC="/icons/dir.gif" ALT="[DIR]"> <A HREF="os/..">Parent Directory</A>                  24-Mar-2019 06:59     1k  
<IMG SRC="/icons/dir.gif" ALT="[DIR]"> <A HREF="os/Packages/">Packages/</A>                         22-Mar-2019 22:55     1k  
<IMG SRC="/icons/dir.gif" ALT="[DIR]"> <A HREF="os/repodata/">repodata/</A>                         27-Mar-2019 08:03     1k  
</PRE><HR>
</BODY></HTML>

(delete files ssl_ca_cert.3cefb76b-7c41-4446-9806-7077ceaccd0f.crt ssl_client_cert.3cefb76b-7c41-4446-9806-7077ceaccd0f.crt ssl_client_key.3cefb76b-7c41-4446-9806-7077ceaccd0f.crt once done)
  • One can use the curl command in the script output for further troubleshooting (until the *crt files for accessing CDN are deleted).
  • To try with a repository of different type than yum, importer type must be changed in the script. E.g. for testing OSTree repo, one has to replace yum by ostree_web everywhere in the script. An example script for ISO repos is attached, for pulp-2 only (as it requires non-straightforward downloading PULP_MANIFEST file from the feed dir).

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Pulp 2.0 Issues, please refer to the Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Pulp 2.0-related Issues

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