Zabbix Version 1.1.5 - Can not add host names with a dash

[Palmertree]

Is anyone else experiencing this issue in version 1.1.5. If you try and add a host name with a dash "-", I get an error saying that it is not allowed but it's showen in the allowed list. I used dashes plenty of times before in the hostname.

I get this message:

[ERROR:Cannot update host]

Hostname should contain '0-9a-zA-Z_.-$' characters only

Host I am trying to add is Computer-Test

[Palmertree]

Compared the hosts.inc.php to a Zabbix version 1.1.4 and I found that the line below was different:

Version 1.1.5:
function db_save_host($host,$port,$status,$useip,$ip,$templ ateid,$hostid=NULL)
{
if (!eregi('^([0-9a-zA-Z\_\.-\$]+)$', $host))

Version 1.1.4:
function db_save_host($host,$port,$status,$useip,$ip,$templ ateid,$hostid=NULL)
{
if (!eregi('^([0-9a-zA-Z\_\.-]+)$', $host))

I remodified the code in 1.1.5 and it seems to be working again with dashes. Hopefully I did not break anything else.

[Alexei]

Sorry for this problem. Correct fix is:

function db_save_host($host,$port,$status,$useip,$ip,$templ ateid,$hostid=NULL)
{
if (!eregi('^([0-9a-zA-Z\_\.\$-]+)$', $host))

[Palmertree]

Thanks Alex for the quick reply. I will make the adjustments.

[aelix]

Same problem with expressions too

I applied this patch, but I still get "expression does not match" errors for all my hosts that have dashes in their hostname! This happens if I update a trigger, for example.

[James Wells]

Greetings,

I applied this patch, but I still get "expression does not match" errors for all my hosts that have dashes in their hostname! This happens if I update a trigger, for example.

Please see BUG: Arithmetic Minus Not Supported In Triggers to see how to fix that one.

[aelix]

Greetings,

Please see BUG: Arithmetic Minus Not Supported In Triggers to see how to fix that one.

Although I probably would have hit that bug eventually, I found my problem is in config.inc.php line 683:

if (eregi('^\{([0-9a-zA-Z\_\.-\$]+)\: ......

should be

if (eregi('^\{([0-9a-zA-Z\_\.\$-]+)\: .....

[nevzorofff]

Why dosn't allowed to use national characters in hostname(not in DNS)?
Russian trigger i can set, but hostname - can't.

[micw]

Same issue here in version 1.6.1: It's not possible to add hostnames with dashes. This should be filed as bug because the hostname field must accept any character that is allowed for hostnames.