hammer is failing on Red Hat Satellite 6.

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.x

Issue

• hammer is failing with the following error:

  [root@satellite ~]# hammer ping
  Error: 407 "Proxy Authentication Required"
  

  or,

  [root@satellite ~]# hammer host info --id 123
  Error: 502 "notresolvable"
  

Resolution

• Unset the environment proxy from the satellite server:

  # env |grep "http\|https\|proxy"
        
  # unset http_proxy
  # unset https_proxy
  

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

Root Cause

• hammer was unable to authenticate the environmental proxy.

Diagnostic Steps

• Verify if the environmental proxy is set on the Satellite.

    [root@satellite ~]# env |grep "http\|https\|proxy"
  
     http_proxy=https://myproxy.example.com:8080 
     https_proxy=https://myproxy.example.com:8080 
  

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