illegal_macro_output_chars

[Steve Loughran]

I just copied-n-pasted these entries into my old config and it worked first
time...

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bishop, Dean" <dean.bishop at tcdsb.org>
To: "'Steve Loughran'" <stevelml1 at scee.sony.co.uk>; "Nagios Users"
<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Bishop, Dean" <dean.bishop at tcdsb.org>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:35 PM
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] illegal_macro_output_chars


> cool.
>
> Should i just copy a 106b clean nagios.cfg over to my etc and redo it?
>
> what other stuff has changed wrt configs?
>
> thanks a million,
> dean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Loughran [mailto:stevelml1 at scee.sony.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:19 PM
> To: Nagios Users
> Cc: Bishop, Dean
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] illegal_macro_output_chars
>
>
> this is a new config entry in 106b (or earlier.. cant remember). if you
have
> upgraded from an earlier version, then the old config will not have these
> new entries and nagios will fail.
>
> they appear just below the `date_format` entry in the config file, and
look
> something like this:
>
> =======================
>
> # ILLEGAL OBJECT NAME CHARACTERS
> # This options allows you to specify illegal characters that cannot
> # be used in host names, service descriptions, or names of other
> # object types.
>
> illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()=
>
>
>
> # ILLEGAL MACRO OUTPUT CHARACTERS
> # This options allows you to specify illegal characters that are
> # stripped from macros before being used in notifications, event
> # handlers, etc.  This DOES NOT affect macros used in service or
> # host check commands.
> # The following macros are stripped of the characters you specify:
> #       $OUTPUT$, $PERFDATA$
>
> illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|'"<>
>
> =======================
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bishop, Dean" <dean.bishop at tcdsb.org>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 4:52 PM
> Subject: [Nagios-users] illegal_macro_output_chars
>
>
> > Good morning,
> >
> > i just added a few hosts to my nagios 1.0b6 config, ran the
> > verification, and saw this error at the bottom of the message:
> >
> > Warning: Nothing specified for illegal_macro_output_chars variable!
> >
> > What is this?  Where do i begin to look?
> >
> > thanks,
> > dean
> >
> >
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