Symptoms:
- Distributed Firewall fails to publish.
- vShield-Stateful-Firewall logs on ESXi host (/var/run/log/vsfwd.log) contains errors similar to:
vsfwd: [ERROR] convert rule error 3: rule tag is too long: 39
In the above log excerpt, 39 is an example.
- In the Distributed Firewall UI, no rule tag seems to exceed the character count limit (30). However, some rule tag contain special characters.
Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.