Mirroring using registered SLE10 device credentials, fails in zlm 7.3 Server for SLE10 specific Catalogs

  • Document ID:7004993
  • Creation Date:08-Dec-2009
  • Modified Date:30-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      ZENworks Linux Management

Environment


Novell ZENworks 7.3 Linux Management - ZLM7.3

Situation

Mirroring fails on new zlm 7.3 installed system, when trying to mirror sles10sp2 updates using NCC registered device credentials(deviceid/secret) .
The credential should not have authentication for SLE11 Catalogs. It fails with a 403 error as given below :

* Retrieving catalog information from the remote server
* Found catalog "SLE10-SP2-Debuginfo-Updates"
* Found catalog "SLES10-SP2-Online"
* Found catalog "SLES10-SP2-Pool"
* Found catalog "SLES10-SP2-Updates"
* Using target include filter: "sles-10-i586"
* Checking for patch bundles in catalog "SLES10-SP2-Updates" for target
"sles-10-i586".
* Checking for patch bundles in catalog "SLES10-SP2-Updates" for target
"sles-10-i586".
Error: HTTP error 403 occurred during the following request:
"https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES10-SP2-Updates/sles-10-i586/null".
com.novell.zenworks.zlmmirror.server.MirrorServerException: HTTP error 403
occurred during the following request:
"https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES10-SP2-Updates/sles-10-i586/null".

Resolution

This is fixed in ZLM 7.3 - see KB 3469853 "Updates to Novell ZENworks 7.2 Linux Management" which can be found at https://www.novell.com/support