vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager: Adding FQDN of NTP server which begins with a number followed by a period results in error

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
Attempting to add an FQDN beginning with a number followed by a period via the UI in Home>Settings>Time Settings results in an error:

Invalid FQDN/IP Address

An example of this type of FQDN:

0.north-america.pool.ntp.org

Environment

VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x
VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1.x

Cause

This is a known issue

Resolution

This will be fixed in a future release.  Click Subscribe to Article in the Actions box to be alerted when this article is updated.

Workaround:
Manually edit the ntp.conf file:

root@vlcmtest [ /etc ]# cat /etc/ntp.conf
tinker panic 0
restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery
restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict -6 ::1
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift
server 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org