SNMP Community name with special characters

[onallion]

Hey,

I have several devices with SNMP Community names that contain special characters such as "@" and "!". When I try polling them with Zabbix, it does not work.

When I use snmpwalk, I can get over this by putting quotes around the community name, or by escaping the special characters with "\". So for example: S\@et4546d\$1. Unfortunately this does not work in Zabbix.

Is there any way to use these community names in Zabbix, or is this just unsupported?

[registration_is_lame]

What is the error you see on the item? Anything in the logs?
I don't think special character is the issue here. I can confirm @ works within zabbix. Not sure about !. Try escaping if it is the cause

[onallion]

It's a simple communication error - "Timeout while connecting to x.x.x.x:161". I am certain it's a community name issue because when I add a community name without special characters it works.

As for escaping, how is it done in Zabbix? I tried "\" but it does not seem to work.

BTW: I am putting the community name as a macro ({$SNMP_COMMUNITY})