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What kind of restrictions apply for DataMiner View, Element and Service names?

Solved1.65K views7th September 2020elements naming conventions services views
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Jeroen Nietvelt [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]1.34K 7th September 2020 0 Comments

When provisioning the DataMiner system with new elements, services and views, what are the character restrictions i need to take into account when defining the object names?

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Changed status to publish 7th September 2020

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Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst]5.51K Posted 7th September 2020 0 Comments

You can find a detailed overview of the restrictions in the following section of the DataMiner Help: Naming of elements, services, views, etc.

Jeroen Nietvelt [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 7th September 2020
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Ruben Vandepitte [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]2.32K Posted 7th September 2020 0 Comments

Names of elements, services, redundancy groups, templates and folders

Names may not start or end with the following characters:

. (dot)

space

Names may not contain the following characters:

/ (slash)

\ (backslash)

: (colon)

; (semicolon)

* (asterisk)

? (question mark)

“ (double quote)

< (smaller than)

> (greater than)

| (pipe)

° (degree)

The following characters may not occur more than once within a name:

% (percentage)

Names of views

Names may not start or end with the following characters:

. (dot)

 space

Names may not contain the following character:

| (pipe)

The following characters may not occur more than once within a name:

% (percentage)

Taken from https://help.dataminer.services/dataminer/#t=DataMinerUserGuide%2Fpart_7%2FNamingConventions%2FForbidden_characters.htm

Ruben Vandepitte [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Answered question 7th September 2020
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