Description of problem:

Restarting spacewalk with monitoring entitlements enabled gives the following errors.

The system is f17, fresh install, along with a fresh install of spacewalk 1.8 as per the spacewalk-postgresql instructions. The hostname is fully resolvable. There are no SElinux errors (The systems is currently in Permissive mode). 

Starting MonitoringScout ...  
        Starting NPBootstrap ...  2012-12-22 09:11:32 NPBootstrap:      !! ERROR FROM SHELL COMMAND: 
2012-12-22 09:11:32 NPBootstrap:        !! STDOUT: Requesting https://spacewalk.fy.id.au/satconfig/cgi-bin/fetch_netsaintid.cgi?ssk=23a055c53528&publickey=ssh-dss%20AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBAOPuihRgi17wi%2B4yj3ZwBixGBWhhcmlESRJQ4Fj%2BaSv7ouzrl5oSTqxhqpJJ5Z9DyM%2Fx79NrDn8NNXdiWFx6QubruKkf%2FF0FfyjWu1F%2Fn%2F4V2IP8kwVvtHCkj%2BNnqL2k6%2Bjr3A72UgOTVUom1VkAWmS4GdFrUduYuu%2B6X4HAj%2Bk%2FAAAAFQCJBIIzKbEH9vv35g%2FApay0Za0JQQAAAIBJ0H1EUpAt7h9uU%2FR76cEB7UmxKP2PWW1jhtm1X7tsR6X9ddPsEtSOLDBNXybsWGfDqIuaWMC3k6BC1DebjxPAfoqBTsAGAYdCQSOrwnRmTrZeXK3e7qSbVQRetnvQx5EvkHA4KcJYSfM6r6JO0ZTJKteYftxa0v1bUmKEsAk36AAAAIAmNm1aVpy03CRdDILFS4zZN46vZmbu6LfZ4VF1539UtTgQg3zHINOxHpg%2FE2sDqt2h%2FbCAVsWCwRhhyXAqxrUIEf%2Fb1w4irmW5ph28crcZMTJ4EkUc3y1x2efVRVF8Itqox8sLlPpcZQEvigwvTXAlxmrRAheSLSiBY2ocIIwNOg%3D%3D%20nocpulse%40spacewalk%2Efy%2Eid%2Eau%0A
Error on attempt 1:  Status: '500 Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)'; content: 'Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51.
'
Error on attempt 2:  Status: '500 Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)'; content: 'Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51.
'
Error on attempt 3:  Status: '500 Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)'; content: 'Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51.
'
Error on attempt 4:  Status: '500 Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)'; content: 'Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51.
'
Failed 5 times to get data for this node.

2012-12-22 09:11:32 NPBootstrap:        !! STDERR: 
2012-12-22 09:11:32 NPBootstrap:        !! EXIT: 256
[ FAIL ]
2012-12-22 09:11:32 NPBootstrap: WARNING: STARTED BUT *NOT* RUNNING
2012-12-22 09:11:32 NPBootstrap: ERRORS ENCOUNTERED DURING LAST ACTION:
2012-12-22 09:11:32 NPBootstrap:        !! ERROR FROM SHELL COMMAND: 
2012-12-22 09:11:32 NPBootstrap:        !! STDOUT: Requesting https://spacewalk.fy.id.au/satconfig/cgi-bin/fetch_netsaintid.cgi?ssk=23a055c53528&publickey=ssh-dss%20AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBAOPuihRgi17wi%2B4yj3ZwBixGBWhhcmlESRJQ4Fj%2BaSv7ouzrl5oSTqxhqpJJ5Z9DyM%2Fx79NrDn8NNXdiWFx6QubruKkf%2FF0FfyjWu1F%2Fn%2F4V2IP8kwVvtHCkj%2BNnqL2k6%2Bjr3A72UgOTVUom1VkAWmS4GdFrUduYuu%2B6X4HAj%2Bk%2FAAAAFQCJBIIzKbEH9vv35g%2FApay0Za0JQQAAAIBJ0H1EUpAt7h9uU%2FR76cEB7UmxKP2PWW1jhtm1X7tsR6X9ddPsEtSOLDBNXybsWGfDqIuaWMC3k6BC1DebjxPAfoqBTsAGAYdCQSOrwnRmTrZeXK3e7qSbVQRetnvQx5EvkHA4KcJYSfM6r6JO0ZTJKteYftxa0v1bUmKEsAk36AAAAIAmNm1aVpy03CRdDILFS4zZN46vZmbu6LfZ4VF1539UtTgQg3zHINOxHpg%2FE2sDqt2h%2FbCAVsWCwRhhyXAqxrUIEf%2Fb1w4irmW5ph28crcZMTJ4EkUc3y1x2efVRVF8Itqox8sLlPpcZQEvigwvTXAlxmrRAheSLSiBY2ocIIwNOg%3D%3D%20nocpulse%40spacewalk%2Efy%2Eid%2Eau%0A
Error on attempt 1:  Status: '500 Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)'; content: 'Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51.
'
Error on attempt 2:  Status: '500 Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)'; content: 'Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51.
'
Error on attempt 3:  Status: '500 Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)'; content: 'Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51.
'
Error on attempt 4:  Status: '500 Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)'; content: 'Can't connect to spacewalk.fy.id.au:443 (certificate verify failed)

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51.
'
Failed 5 times to get data for this node.

2012-12-22 09:11:32 NPBootstrap:        !! STDERR: 
2012-12-22 09:11:32 NPBootstrap:        !! EXIT: 256