using awk in check commands

[Clint Sulis]

Try backslashing the dollar sign.  Hope that works!

On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Kevin D. Thompson wrote:

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> Hi all,
> I want to make a simple check command that will return the serial  
> number of my Cisco routers.
> I run this command from the command line
>
> /usr/local/bin/snmpget -v 2c -c *snmpremoved central-2621-1
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.3.6.3.0 | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'
>
> and I get the appropriate response.  So then I added that to my
> checkcommands.cfg file, as the following entry
> define command{
>         command_name    get_router_serial_number
>         command_line    /usr/local/bin/snmpget -v 2c -c *snmpremoved  
> $HOSTADDRESS$
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.3.6.3.0 | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'
>         }
> when I run Nagios, I keep getting errors from awk,
> awk: cmd. line:2: {print $2}$
> awk: cmd. line:2:            ^ unexpected newline
>
> Any thoughts on why this works from the command line, but not in the
> check command I made?
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