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:

Change 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