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I'll speculate that it is just a syntax issue. They'd have to quote it or escape it in the database and their programming which would be tedious. I just use camel case and it's decent. Underscores are allowed I believe.

IPAM noted. We really want to understand this though because we have a lot of other resources that are tabular snmp.

Here's a workaround for java. Copy java.exe to java_SOMETHING.exe and wire your services/wrapper.conf to use that executable. That will give your processes unique names when running multiple java services. This doesn't help much for svchost.exe et. al., but it is something.

Solved. The Custom Poller builder doesn't let you put spaces in the names of the pollers. In my infinite ninja wisdom, I updated the poller names in the Database directly (CustomPollers table), because it was faster than updating sixteen pollers with the GUI. I had put spaces in the names. As soon as you remove the spaces…