Certificate popup keeps reappearing after clicking "Accept" button in Aria Operations for Logs

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Aria Operations for Logs keeps returning the certificate popup continuously when adding a vCenter account (Integration > vSphere) or integrating the vIDM in the Authenticatoin page (Configuration > Authentication).
The following error appears in the ui_runtime.log file: "Host cannot be null or empty string"

Environment

Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.x

Resolution

To resolve the issue, please reboot the appliance by following: Restart the VMware Aria Operations for Logs Service