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I've found that if I put an ampersand in the description of a host group, the name comes up wrong in some places.

Try this:

1) Add a hostgroup.
2) Put an ampersand (the "&" symbol) in the description, then go to Configure -> Core Config manager -> Host groups.
The description will show "&" instead of the actual ampersand.

3) Now go to Home -> Hostgroup Overview and look for the group.
It appears everything after the ampersand is cutoff and replaced with the Hostgroup name in parenthesis.

This should have been fixed in version 1.6 of Nagios Xi 2012, what version are you running? Is it possible for you to upgrade to the latest version? "XI 2012 r1.8"

slansing wrote:This should have been fixed in version 1.6 of Nagios Xi 2012, what version are you running? Is it possible for you to upgrade to the latest version? "XI 2012 r1.8"

Under Admin -> System Profile I have:

Nagios XI Installation Profile

Download Profile
System:

Nagios XI Version : 2012R1.8

As of right now:
Are all illegal object name characters meaning when you try to write the config files the rewrite process should bail out with an error, thank you for pointing out that it does not with Host/Service groups, would you have time to file a bug report at:

http://tracker.nagios.com/

Thanks a ton!