Problem definition:

1) Real hosts can use characters like “-” and “_” in the hostname. FQDN will use “.”.

2) We need to register different hosts on Zabbix for systems and subsystems, as shown below:

{Customer code}*{Short hostname/FQDN}*{Subsystem name}*{Subsystem instance}

Where * is some delimiter character, not found in the hostname.

3) We are currently limited to “alphanumerics, spaces, dots, dashes and underscores are allowed”, according documentation at 1 Configuring a host

4) Spaces are/should not (be) used for hostnames, dots are used for FQDN, underscore and dash can be found in the short hostname.

Request:

That been said, we need more options to use in the host registration,

Suggestion is to add support for other characters like “!” “~” “@” “:”, which are less common/not used at all on hostnames.