Special characters

When you create or edit a sensor, you cannot use the following special characters in the sensor name:

• Comma ,

• Quotation marks "

• Equal sign =

• Brackets: curly { } or square [ ]

• Parentheses ( )
• Question mark ?
• Ampersand &
• Underscore _ (The Tanium Console does not prevent you from using an underscore in sensor names. However, the underscore is used as a delimiter for sensor sub-columns. If the sensor name has an underscore, sensor-sourced packages cannot use the sensor as a sensor variable.)

Reserved words

If sensor names use any of the following reserved words, you must add quotation marks around the names when you enter a question in the Ask a Question field.

When you configure sensors, do not use reserved words in sensor names.

• $serverNames

• $serverIDs

• $substring

• $unescape

• all

• All

• ALL

• and

• any

• computers

• Computers

• COMPUTERS

• contains

• containing

• equals

• from

• From

• FROM

• get

• Get

• GET

• having

• Having

• HAVING

• in

• machines

• Machines

• MACHINES

• matches

• matching

• not

• number

• Number

• NUMBER

• of

• Of

• OF

• or

• where

• Where

• WHERE

• with

• With

• WITH