: no longer supported in service description ?

[DennisPR]

I have upgraded Nagios XI 2014R1.1 to R1.2 this week and everything seemed fine until I tried to change some service settings.
When I change a setting in one of the services I get the following error when saving the settings : Illegal characters in service description.

All my tests are called [Item] : Detail eg :

• Windows : Disk space C:
  Windows : CPU 5mins
  SQL : Size log file

Removing the : in the service description or changing it to an - fixes the issue
However changing the service descriptions means that I loose all historical data of all tests in Nagios
Is this a bug ?
If not, how can I save my historical data ?

[tmcdonald]

This was just fixed internally yesterday. I will update this post when we I know more.

I have attached the fix to this post. The file must be uploaded to your Nagios XI server to replace the current version of the file, which is located at /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/ccm/javascript/form_js.js

After that you must ctrl + F5 to refresh your browser and then you should be able to use the ":" in your CCM.

form_js.js

[DennisPR]

That solved my problem. Thank you very much !