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XI 2014R1.2 Ent Edition
RHEL 6.5
Offloaded DB

I am encountering all kind of issues with the UI due to so called invalid characters which was just fine before the upgrade.
It still works fine but the UI is not allowing any changes until the characters is removed.

1) Under Services - Description field cannot contain :
However under Hosts - Description : is accepted without issues.

2) Free variable definition, value cannot contain !
This is a big problem because I got so many password and variables using the ! character.
It works just fine, however we just cannot save.

3) Graphs not showing up if service description has :
This was thankfully fixed today.

Host definition MY1TEST.cfg is shown as

define host {
host_name MY1TEST
use test_123
alias test server
address 10.10.10.10
_PWD test!1234
_USER test
register 1
}

However when opened in CCM, the _PWD is gone from the variables list. Invalid character dialog pops up when opening the host definition.
Please fix all these issues asap.
Thanks

1.) This was mentioned in your other thread and I have filed a bug report for it has been fixed internally - see other thread

2.) Anything containing an illegal character can be stored in the resource.cfg file and referenced as a $USERX$ macro

tmcdonald wrote:1.) This was mentioned in your other thread and I have filed a bug report for it has been fixed internally - see other thread

2.) Anything containing an illegal character can be stored in the resource.cfg file and referenced as a $USERX$ macro

It was not an illegal character before. Why the sudden change which is causing so much problem for your users?
Now I need to rework something that was working fine and go through testing, uat etc all over again.

The bug has been fixed in the next release of XI. If you want to apply the patch right now, download the file below: and install it as you would install a regular component:

Admin->Manage Components->Browse->ccm.zip->Upload Component

Let me know if this fixed your issue.

lmiltchev wrote:The bug has been fixed in the next release of XI. If you want to apply the patch right now, download the file below:

ccm.zip

and install it as you would install a regular component:

Admin->Manage Components->Browse->ccm.zip->Upload Component

Let me know if this fixed your issue.

This fixed the ":" invalid character in services and also the invalid char "!" in the custom variables. Thanks.