ASSERT: make sure that you have a connection with password stored (in secured storage) in your OpenShift Explorer ASSERT: make sure you have no network ASSERT: tail -f your Eclipse logs so that you get what happens in it EXEC: launch a fresh Eclipse and open OpenShift Explorer & Properties view EXEC: select your connection in OpenShift Explorer ASSERT: secure storage prompts your for the secure storage pw (if you already used secure storage and gave it the pw before, you wont get the prompt) EXEC: give secure storage pw EXEC: look into your Eclipse log: Result: com.openshift.client.OpenShiftEndpointException: Could not request https: //openshift.redhat.com/broker/ rest /api: java.net.UnknownHostException: openshift.redhat.com at com.openshift.internal.client.RestService.request(RestService.java:117) at com.openshift.internal.client.RestService.request(RestService.java:102) at com.openshift.internal.client.RestService.request(RestService.java:83) at com.openshift.internal.client.AbstractOpenShiftConnectionFactory.getConnection(AbstractOpenShiftConnectionFactory.java:34) at com.openshift.client.OpenShiftConnectionFactory.getConnection(OpenShiftConnectionFactory.java:134) at com.openshift.client.OpenShiftConnectionFactory.getConnection(OpenShiftConnectionFactory.java:103) at org.jboss.tools.openshift.express.internal.core.connection.Connection.createUser(Connection.java:219) at org.jboss.tools.openshift.express.internal.core.connection.Connection.connect(Connection.java:199) at org.jboss.tools.openshift.express.internal.ui.property.UserPropertySource$1.run(UserPropertySource.java:112) at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121) Caused by: com.openshift.internal.client.httpclient.HttpClientException: java.net.UnknownHostException: openshift.redhat.com at com.openshift.internal.client.httpclient.UrlConnectionHttpClient.createException(UrlConnectionHttpClient.java:213) at com.openshift.internal.client.httpclient.UrlConnectionHttpClient.write(UrlConnectionHttpClient.java:180) at com.openshift.internal.client.httpclient.UrlConnectionHttpClient.get(UrlConnectionHttpClient.java:111) at com.openshift.internal.client.RestService.request(RestService.java:153) at com.openshift.internal.client.RestService.request(RestService.java:109) ... 9 more Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: openshift.redhat.com at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1491) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(HttpURLConnection.java:1485) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1139) at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:379) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:318) at com.openshift.internal.client.httpclient.UrlConnectionHttpClient.createException(UrlConnectionHttpClient.java:196) ... 13 more Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: openshift.redhat.com at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:195) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(SSLSocketImpl.java:559) at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:158) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:395) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:530) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(HttpsClient.java:272) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(HttpsClient.java:329) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:172) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:911) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:158) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1172) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:234) at com.openshift.internal.client.httpclient.UrlConnectionHttpClient.write(UrlConnectionHttpClient.java:178) ... 12 more