diff --git a/config/pmd.xml b/config/pmd.xml
index 297bad83e..7efb4ae2e 100644
--- a/config/pmd.xml
+++ b/config/pmd.xml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
     <properties>
       <property name="showClassesComplexity" value="false"/>
       <property name="reportLevel" value="11"/>
+      <property name="violationSuppressXPath" value="//MethodDeclaration[@Name='validateCli' and ../../..[@Image='Main']]"/>
     </properties>
   </rule>
   <rule ref="rulesets/java/codesize.xml/TooManyMethods">