Bulk Host Cloning

[BanditBBS]

I used the bulk host cloning wizard earlier today to create a few hosts. I found one short-coming and opened a new feature request

However, I also noticed an issue. The description I used had a hyphen in it. Here is an example of a line I put in:

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10.10.10.10,This is - an example,MISCHOST

The IP and hostname were populated fine. The description was populated with what i had in there, but the hyphen was replaced with some gibberish. It was a few random ascii characters. Should I enclose the description in quotes or is this a bug I should file?

[lmiltchev]

I was not able to recreate the issue. I wonder if you forgot to select "Description" and "Name" from the "Field 2" and "Field 3" drop-down menus in Step 3 of the wizard...

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[tmcdonald]

Neither was I. Tried escaping the hyphen, enclosing the whole thing in quotes, and leaving it as you had it. Nothing. Wanna post a copy of the .cfg for the misbehaving hosts?

[BanditBBS]

I just replicated it on my dev server. can you try with the information I just used:

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10.6.124.91,IDF20 – APC UPS,UPOT2IDF2001

Just to show you:

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Bother servers are 2012R2.3 with the wizxard version 1.8.

[tmcdonald]

Humor me here, and copy+paste the hyphen from your MSCHOST example. You are using two different hyphens and one is causing an issue.

The hex code "2D" is a standard hyphen that works. One you had in your config is "E2 80 93" and is breaking things, likely some weird UTF extension.

[BanditBBS]

Humor me here, and copy+paste the hyphen from your MSCHOST example. You are using two different hyphens and one is causing an issue.

The hex code "2D" is a standard hyphen that works. One you had in your config is "E2 80 93" and is breaking things, likely some weird UTF extension.

Trevor,

That makes sense. I was copy-n-paste from an email for the actual import I did. For the example I used first I just typed it. Guess I should have used the "paste as plain text" option in chrome when pasting.

Go ahead and close this and just make a mental note

[tmcdonald]

Go ahead and close this and just make a mental note :)

Aye Captain. I hope this saves some face from my earlier post-closing blunders :D