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Bulk Host Cloning
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:41 pm
by 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?
Re: Bulk Host Cloning
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:54 pm
by 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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Re: Bulk Host Cloning
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:59 pm
by 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?
Re: Bulk Host Cloning
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:06 pm
by 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.
Re: Bulk Host Cloning
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:15 pm
by 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.
Re: Bulk Host Cloning
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:21 pm
by BanditBBS
tmcdonald wrote: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
Re: Bulk Host Cloning
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:23 pm
by tmcdonald
BanditBBS wrote: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