Inventory group names must not contain blanks (and other illegal characters)

ahaerpfer / ansible-inventory-omd-livestatus

Ansible dynamic inventory script for OMD Livestatus.

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Inventory group names must not contain blanks (and other illegal characters) #2

Closed ahaerpfer closed 8 years ago

ahaerpfer commented 8 years ago

Inventory group names created from OMD hostgroup names must be sanitized w/ respect to illegal characters. Common practice is to translate any special characters that Ansible doesn't handle to underscores.

ahaerpfer commented 8 years ago

After some testing … obviously not complete:

OK: . / | # < > % & * ( ) + = @ $
NOK: , ; : [ ] [blank]

And from an IRC conversation:

you may want to restrict it to words/chars that don't make your jinja templates complicated periods are notoriously irritating