Allowed characters in service description

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Allowed characters in service description

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Hi,

There is a requirement to give special character * (star) in the service description, but it is giving illegal character error.

Can you let us know what are the allowed special characters in Nagios service description ?
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Re: Allowed characters in service description

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The following are not allowed in object names (hosts/service/hostgroups, etc.)

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`~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()=
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Re: Allowed characters in service description

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Thanks for the update. Please close the request.
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bsivavani wrote:Thanks for the update. Please close the request.
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