Password rejected by Nagios

[whjsmith]

Greetings,

We were trying to setup NagiosXI under a service account we have setup and noticed the message stating that our password had to be less than 8 characters and contain no special characters such as $ or #. I find this very odd as most of the time you are getting notified by applications that your password must be greater than 8 characters and contain special characters. I am guessing there is a good reason for this. Could someone please let me know why in case my boss asks me the same question.

Thanks!

[lmiltchev]

What version of Nagios XI are you using? Where exactly do you see this message?
Please, describe the steps you took to change the password and post a screenshot of the message, stating that the "password had to be less than 8 characters and contain no special characters such as $ or #"?

[whjsmith]

Sorry, should have mentioned it was for the WMI Monitoring. Here is a picture:

ssNagios.JPG

Nagios version 2011R1.9

[scottwilkerson]

This must me an old version of the wizard.

Please download http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... owswmi.zip
Go to Admin -> Manage Config Wizards -> click the X next to the old Windows WMI Wizard
Upload the new Wizard
Should be resolved