SNMP Community Charaters Restriction

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soc-sistemas
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SNMP Community Charaters Restriction

Post by soc-sistemas »

Hello Team,

I would like o know if some one know if Nagios have some restriction to use special characters or some characters (no matter that are not special) on the snmp community that I setting to monitoring device.

Grateful for the help you are can give me.
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Re: SNMP Community Charaters Restriction

Post by scottwilkerson »

Not specifically but there are several that can really be hard to escape, specifically ! (exclamation point)

That said, these are the list of standard illegal_macro_output_chars that will often cause problems

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`~$&|'"<>
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