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I brought this up previously but couldn't re-create the issue in Nagios. Now we know that when you clone an existing host, the Free Variables move to the newly cloned host but are removed from the original host. Anyway, not sure what I need to do to get a bug report opened.

Installed Version: 2011R3.2

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hostname 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.i686 i686
CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
Gnome Installed
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Nagios XI Data
nagios (pid 7528) is running...
NPCD running (pid 1973).
ndo2db (pid 2020) is running...
CPU Load 15: 1.17
Total Hosts: 616
Total Services: 6079

To my utter disbelief that this could happen, I tested it and in fact it does.

you can file a bug report with any information you have at
http://tracker.nagios.com/

I have already spoken with this to our developer in charge of the CCM, but the bug report would be useful.

Thanks!

I'm seeing this same problem in 2012R1.2 and I don't see it noted as fixed in the release notes for 2012R1.3 ... I looked through the tracker and I see a bug report that was fixed in 2012R1.0. It appears this may be a regression, though. I've created a new bug for this issue here : http://tracker.nagios.com/view.php?id=325

Which object type are you attempting to clone where is it failing. I was able to verify this is working for hosts and services on my test machine. Are you seeing with something like contacts or a template?

Nope, seeing this on a host.

More information :

Create a new host, add a few free variables. Clone that host. Initially, both hosts will have the free variables and everything appears to be ok. However, if you go into the newly cloned host and click save, the original host loses its free variables. I verified this on a test instance running 2012R1.1 as well.

Ok, I see it now. I was looking at the newly cloned object, not the old one. Thanks for the report, we'll get it fixed for the next release.

I was able to recreate it, so I can confirm this bug.

I'm seeing a new issue with Free Variables in NagiosXI 2012R1.2

I create a free variable on a host
Save the host. Open the host back up and it's changed to this...
The \\ is gone and the \\t is being interpolated as a tab....

I tried saving with single quotes:
But that just disappears after saving it.

Oh that will be fun to try and sanitize that correctly Alright, I'll take a look at that as well and see what I can find out. It may be as simple as single quoting and using addslashes() to the input processing.

If you can post a fix that would be great. I'm getting alarms on MSMQ monitors for any server the guys touch.