Aria Automation Config high state is getting failed for the step "import_initial_objects"

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• While running highstate against RaaS node to install the RaaS Service, the highstate fails at the "import_initial_objects" stage. 
• From the raas log we can see the following error 
  

  [ERROR   :216 ][MainProcess:#####] HTTP Error 301: Moved Permanently
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "raas/utils/client.py", line 80, in _fetch
    response = opener.open(request, timeout=60)
  File "urllib/request.py", line 523, in open
  File "urllib/request.py", line 632, in http_response
  File "urllib/request.py", line 561, in error
  File "urllib/request.py", line 494, in _call_chain
  File "urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_error_default
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 301: Moved Permanently

  [ERROR   :496 ][MainProcess:#####] An un-handled exception was caught by raas's global exception handler:
RaasBackendException: Moved Permanently

• Downgraded the openssl version to 3.1.x or below  as stated in the KB article Unable to deploy RaaS server, part of SaltStack Config/Aria Automation Config

Environment

Aria Automation Config 8.17

Resolution

Disable the  proxy on the file  /etc/profile.d/https_proxy.sh for Raas Nodes.