Unable to change 'Allow connections from any IP address' for the 'NFS Client' firewall setting from vSphere Client.
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Unable to change 'Allow connections from any IP address' for the 'NFS Client' firewall setting from vSphere Client.

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Article ID: 412085

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Products

VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

  • To change 'Allow connections from any IP address' for the 'NFS Client' firewall setting failed.
  • The below error occurs.
    Invalid operation requested: Can not change allowed ip list this ruleset, it is owned by system service.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 8.x

Cause

This an expected behavior. The "NFS Client" firewall ruleset is owned by system service.

Resolution

It can confirm that 'Allowed IP configurable' for the nfsClient ruleset is set to false using the below command.

# esxcli network firewall ruleset list
Name                         Enabled  Enable/Disable configurable  Allowed IP configurable
---------------------------  -------  ---------------------------  -----------------------
nfsClient                       true                        false                    false

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