Failed to apply high state for RaaS Node in air gapped environment

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• running the salt high state to deploy RaaS (Aria Automation Config) failed at step install_xmlsec
• as per logs the system attempted to download additional binaries but failed so as there is no Internet connection
• attempting to manually install all binaries available in the Installer package, path sse-installer\salt\sse\eapi_service did fail during installation of openssl requiring the openssl-libs package but in a higher version

Environment

Aria Automation Config 8.17

Cause

OpenSSL is already installed in this system but in a higher release then what is bundled with the Aria Automation Config installer. Therefor the system is trying to download the missing binary when running the highstate.

Resolution

Please disable any unavailable repositories, including local repositories where the RHEL Installer image is no longer mounted:

Enabling or disabling a repository using Red Hat Subscription Management

To complete the installation you can either remove the higher version of OpenSSL and then re-run the high state to install the bundled packages.

Or download the missing openssl-libs package in the required version from RedHat to manually install it and then re-run the high state to complete the deployment.