nrpe meta-character arguments

[Guy B. Purcell]

On Sep 23, 2005, at 10:09, Mohr James wrote:

> We are using Nagios 2.0b3 and would like to send specific  
> metacharacters
> using check_nrpe and have run into the limitation that certain
> characters are listed as "bad". Particulary we would like to send URL
> through check_nrpe to a remote machine which then checks the URL using
> check_http. (the Nagios machine does not have direct access to the
> machine in questions). In the URL we are passing variables to a CGI
> script and it contains a couple of ampersands (&).

[...archive notes about ampersand badness & suggested ways to  
overcome it]

> So I was wondering if there is another solution? Is there anything
> available or even planned?

Perhaps this is too obvious, but why not just define your own check  
command for this service on the NRPE server & call that from the  
Nagios server?

-Guy




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