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Hello,

We're having issue with the ampersand sign when used in action_url inside a service definition. The ampersand is removed and the url is not correctly transmitted to the browser.
How can we sort it out?

Thanks

There was a bug in 2012r1.5. If you have not made too many changes, you can roll your snapshot back to a config before the update and then update to the newest version (1.6). Otherwise, upgrade to 1.6 and fix the service checks with the issue.

Upgrading to 1.6 hasn't solved the issue.
in CCM, I've configured a service with this action url : /nagiosgraph/cgi-bin/show.cgi?host=$HOSTNAME$&service=$SERVICEDESC$' onMouseOver='showGraphPopup(this)' onMouseOut='hideGraphPopup()' rel='/nagiosgraph/cgi-bin/showgraph.cgi?host=$HOSTNAME$&service=$SERVICEDESC$, but the resulting configuration in the file is as follow :

###############################################################################
#
# Service configuration file
#
# Created by: Nagios QL Version 3.0.3
# Date: 2013-02-19 08:39:29
# Version: Nagios 3.x config file
#
# --- DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND ---
# Nagios QL will overwite all manual settings during the next update
#
###############################################################################

define service {
host_name HQLTEST1
service_description check_swap
use local-service
display_name check_swap
check_command check_local_swap!20!10!!!!!!
action_url /nagiosgraph/cgi-bin/show.cgi?host=$HOSTNAME$&service=$SERVICEDESC$' onMouseOver='showGraphPopup(this)' onMouseOut='hideGraphPopup()' rel='/nagiosgraph/cgi-bin/showgraph.cgi?host=$HOSTNAME$&service=$SERVICEDESC$
register 1
}

###############################################################################
#
# Service configuration file
#
# END OF FILE
#
###############################################################################

You can see that the "&" character is being translated as "&" and I have to correct it manually in order to get it working.

We'll take a look at correcting this for the 1.7 release.

An idea about the release date?

Here's a patched version of the CCM component that should take care of the issue.