KB Article #177817
APPLIANCE: Accessing Axway Update Repositories over secured HTTPS connection
Introduction
Axway repositories accept HTTPS connections. All Axway Appliances must be able to connect to https://appliance-repo.axway.com
on port 443 in order to download updates.
Axway plans to stop the plain HTTP repositories soon so customers are encouraged to migrate to a secured connection over HTTPS to the Axway Repositories.
Configuration
To configure the Axway appliance to access the Axway repository over a secured HTTPS connection, follow these steps.
Login to Appliance console as root
At the console type:
yast repositories
Tab to the Edit section:
Yast's repository configuration screen
Change the protocol from HTTP
to HTTPS
:
Repeat the above steps for all Axway Update repositories:
Edit the remaining repositories
Once done, press F10
to save the changes and quit Yast
From now, on the connectivity to the Axway Repositories would be encrypted using HTTPS instead of connecting through plain HTTP. The Axway Repositories connection presents a third-party (Thawte) certificate so no prompt to accept the certificate is expected.
To test the new configuration the following commands can be used (executed as root):
zypper clean zypper refresh zypper list-updates