SA connection issue with smcupdate failing when performing yum check-update
3 years ago
Originally Published: 2015-11-12
Article Number
000059768
Applies To
RSA Product Set: Security Analytics
RSA Product/Service Type: SA Core Appliance
RSA Version/Condition: 10.5.1.0
 
Issue
When performing a manual yum update it will fail to connect when passing through a proxy server with authentication set.
 
Resolution
To resolve this issue you will need to add the below values to your /etc/yum.repos.d/sa.repo file.


Example:
  
# The proxy server - proxy server:port number
proxy=http://mycache.mydomain.com:8080
# The account details for yum connections
proxy_username=Proxy_username
proxy_password=Proxy_password
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