DCE 8.3.0 - Domain name won't change nder Network Settings

[Jennifer]

I'm running EcoStruxure Data Center Expert 8.3.0 as  VM in VMware for a lab. I'm trying to change the Domain Name in System>Server Admin Setting>Network Settings to dce.local. The change appears to save but does not persist after reboot and reverts and no changes happen.

Thanks in advance - please advise the supported procedure or any known fixes for 8.3.0.

Jenn

[APC_Steve]

Hi @Jennifer ,

I thought I had seen something similar some time ago but thought it had been addressed. I will look into that in a little more detail but in the meantime, I would suggest changing the hostname using the console and the apcsetup user.

Thanks,

Steve

[ATrabert]

in general, .local shouldn't be used since it's used by mDNS https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6762 and if you check your DCE nbc.xml log, you'll see an error regarding it

10/2/25 14:44:13.360 WARN - Handler execution resulted in exception

(com.netbotz.server.services.serveradmin.controllers.SetNetworkSettingsController)

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid dns domain at com.netbotz.server.services.serveradmin.controllers.SetNetworkSettingsController.validateDnsSettings(SetNetworkSettingsController.java:123)

like Steve mentioned, you can get around this by using it with the apcsetup console script.  I've also logged a ticket with our development team about it

[ATrabert]

setting the DCE domain to .local and .localdomain via the desktop client will be fixed in the next DCE release, 9.1