Can't add/clone template (Configuration - Templates)

[Minimod]

Please help!
When I try to add or full clone template, I see error:

Cannot add template:
Invalid parameter "/1/host": invalid host name.

What is it?
How can I fix it?

[vladimir_lv]

Providing the Zabbix version increases the chances of getting a correct answer. As far as a template name.

[Minimod]

Providing the Zabbix version increases the chances of getting a correct answer. As far as a template name.

Thank you
It was really template name

[vgervais]

Hi. I am having the same issue after trying to import an xml file. My running Zabbix is 6.2.4 in docker. The xml file was generated using SNMPWALK2ZABBIX script from https://github.com/Sean-Bradley/SNMPWALK2ZABBIX

Can anyone give me some idea whats wrong with the template? Would I need to share it?

[vgervais]

Bump. My Zabbix server version is 6.2.4 and it is running in Docker

[vgervais]

I think I fixed it, trying to get info from the vague answers on this thread. The way I did it was to amend the <template></template> just above the <name></name> portion of the .xml file.
Eg. The .xml file generated from the above app, had the quotation marks in the template like this: <template>"some_name_here" SNMP</template>
I just removed the quotation marks "" and SNMP to leave <template>some_name_here</template>
Hope this helps if anyone else comes by, or if needs further input.

[biapy]

Hello,

The error

Invalid parameter "/1/host": invalid host name.

is due to invalid characters in template name. Remove special characters (such as ( and )) and use the visible name field to use a name with special characters.

The error should really be "Invalid template name".

[nameuser]

Sometimes I wonder how this even gets released. If the issue lies in the template name, then the error should clearly state that. Instead, when I mistakenly named the template, I received an 'Invalid parameter "/1/host": invalid hostname' error. What does the host or hostname have to do with it? It's baffling.
2023, by the way.

[cyber]

I do agree that template errors should say things about template not host... but a random fact for you ... Templates and hosts live in same DB table.. Template is basically a host, just has different type... So that is probably the origin of the issue...