Can't use bang (!) as string in services.cfg check_command declaration

[Lennard Bakker]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 15:51, Jason Lancaster wrote:
> I seriously apologize if this went through the first time I sent this. I
> received a "returned mail" message saying it didn't...
> 
> In my service definition file, I need to define a check_command that looks
> something like this:
> 
> check_command    check_http!-S -u /post.html -P
> username=abc&password=!ab2!)z! -s status
> 
> The problem with this is the password has bang's (!) and Nagios translates
> these into arguments when it executes the check_http command. I don't want
> the above line to be split into multiple arguments. It should be a single
> argument passed to the check command check_http.

Is it possible to create a user macro in the resource file?
Something like 
$USER2$=!ab2!)z!

And would the check command be something like:
check_command check_http!-S -u /post.html -P
username=abc&password=$USER2$ -s status

I don't know for sure if this will work, but you can give it a try.

More information about macro's can be found in de nagios help.

Lennard Bakker







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