Pay-as-you-go instances are unable to be connected to SUSE Manager

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Environment

SUSE Manager 4.2
SUSE Manager 4.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4

Situation

A system is running SUSE Manager on SLES 15 SP4.

Running rpm -q release-notes-susemanager shows the SUSE Manager version.
release-notes-susemanager-4.2.9-...

When trying to add an PAYG Instance under Admin => Setup Wizard => Pay-as-you-go, the following error occurs:

Error getting instance data: CA file

The following errors are observed in the /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log.

2022-11-03 10:40:00,939 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-7] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.payg.PaygAuthDataExtractor - Exit status: 6
2022-11-03 10:40:00,939 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-7] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.payg.PaygAuthDataExtractor - stderr:
CA file for server <name_or_ip_address> not found (/usr/share/pki/trust/anchors/registration_server_<name_or_ip_address>.pem)

2022-11-03 10:40:00,939 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-7] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.payg.PaygUpdateAuthTask - error getting instance data 
com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.payg.PaygDataExtractException: CA file for server <name_or_ip_address> not found (/usr/share/pki/trust/anchors/registration_server_<name_or_ip_address>.pem)

        at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.payg.PaygAuthDataExtractor.extractAuthData(PaygAuthDataExtractor.java:128)
        at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.payg.PaygUpdateAuthTask.updateInstanceData(PaygUpdateAuthTask.java:77)
        at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1541)
        at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.payg.PaygUpdateAuthTask.execute(PaygUpdateAuthTask.java:61)
        at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.RhnJavaJob.execute(RhnJavaJob.java:89)
        at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob.execute(TaskoJob.java:170)
        at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:202)
        at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:573)

Resolution

On the SUSE Manager server do the following:

spacewalk-service stop
zypper ref
zypper patch
spacewalk-service start

NOTE: If a reboot is suggested, please reboot the server (see https://documentation.suse.com/suma/4.2/en/suse-manager/upgrade/server-z.html)

For SUSE Manager 4.2 minimum Patch Level Upgrade(Z Upgrade) is release-notes-susemanager-4.2.10
For SUSE Manager 4.3 minimum Patch Level Upgrade(Z Upgrade) is release-notes-susemanager-4.3.3

Cause

The certificate path for SUSE cloud registration servers on SLE clients have changed starting in SLES 15 SP4.

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