Characters in Object Definitions?
Gerd Mueller
gmueller at netways.de
Thu Nov 23 11:31:18 CET 2006
Hi,
you will find them inside nagios.cfg:
# ILLEGAL OBJECT NAME CHARACTERS
# This option allows you to specify illegal characters that cannot
# be used in host names, service descriptions, or names of other
# object types.
illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()=
Cheers,
Gerd
nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Am Donnerstag, den 23.11.2006, 10:20 +0000 schrieb Hari Sekhon:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to use brackets in service description eg
>
> service_description FTP (Public)
>
> but this doesn't work. I have noticed that square brackets do works.
>
> Is there a list somewhere that tells me what I can and can't use in the
> object definitions?
> I've searched the FAQs without luck. I can make do with square brackets
> but I'd really love to know what I can and can't get away with in the
> definitions
>
> I have tried escaping the brackets with slashes and also putting single
> quotes thus: 'FTP (Public)' but I still get an error complaining about
> illegal characters.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Hari
>
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