Commissioning of host in SDDC is failing with following error 'Failed to install temporary VMCA commissioning certificate for host'

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

We get following errors while commissioning the host to SDDC

 

 

*Port connectivity for port  443 from sddc manager is correct.

*Date command on sddc manager will show a difference in the current time and the time set on SDDC manager.

Environment

SDDC 5.2.1

Cause

There is a time drift observed on the sddc manager-

        ERROR [vcf_om,d5b7cc26e1e2423c,cbb4] [c.v.v.s.a.AuthorizationFilter,http-nio-127.0.0.1-7300-exec-9] Error decoding JWT token
        com.vmware.vcf.security.token.service.error.TokenInvalidException: JWT expired at YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS<time_Zone>. Current time: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS<time_Zone>, a difference of 43602 milliseconds.  
        Allowed clock skew: 0 milliseconds.
        at com.vmware.vcf.security.token.service.TokenServiceImpl.getClaims(TokenServiceImpl.java:278)
        at com.vmware.vcf.security.token.service.TokenServiceImpl.decodeToken(TokenServiceImpl.java:188)
        at com.vmware.vcf.security.authorization.AuthorizationFilter.doFilterInternal(AuthorizationFilter.java:78)
        at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:116)

Resolution

Added the correct NTP server and then restarting of sddc manager services has fixed the issue and the host got commissioned.