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I am monitoring websites with specific content expression. the site is in hebrew i have noticed that nagios is unable to handle hebrew expressions. is something that can be resolved?

It will depend on the plugin or wizard are you using to match the content expression. Could you please confirm what plugins/wizards you are having issues with?

I am using the standard expression check configured using the monitoring wizard

Hebrew might have some problems with UTF-8:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/hebrew-encoding

Can you run the check form the command line and see if the output is still broken?
Please post the output here.

[root@monitor nagiosxi]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_http -H www.idi.org.il -s "על המכון"
HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 94168 bytes in 4.499 second response time |time=4.498622s;;;0.000000 size=94168B;;;0

the check is ok. but on the nagios web interface the result is different

HTTP CRITICAL: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - string '?? ?????' not found on 'http://www.idi.org.il:80/' - 94168 bytes in 4.262 second response time

it looks like nagios is seeing the hebrew string as a bunch of question marks

So it's not a problem in Core. In your XI web interface, please go to Configure -> Core Configuration Manager, and find the service under Services. Click the name and post a screenshot of the page. It should look similar to this:
The check seems to be working for me - I removed a letter and it came back as this:
Also what version of Nagios XI is this?

its the latest


as you can see I have question marks instead of the hebrew string. I tried to manually change it to hebrew, no good.

I just tested this on a fresh 2014R1.1 system and I am seeing the same issues you are, so it must have been fixed in a later version. I will update this post when I know more.

UPDATE: 2014R1.2 fixes this issue and will be released some time tomorrow.

YES the update did the job.

thnx