passing a $ to nagios

[Morten Bekkelund]

Hey.

I'm trying to monitor some mssql cluster services on windows.
MS obviously think its a good idea to use a $ as a separator in their
names. Ex: mssql$something
I'm having problems passing this to nagios. Tried several forms of
escaping, doubleescaping (with backslashes) and tried " and ' around the
commands both in services.cfg and commands.cfg but no luck as of yet.

I get different results in my output depending on how i use the " and '
and the escapechar. 
Seems nagios recognises the $something as a macro and gives it another $
in the output like this :  $something$ 
If i doubleescape i get : mssql\$ (nothing more)
If i singleescape i get : mssql$ (nothing more)
..regardless of my use of ' and " it seems.


Any clues how to pass this correctly to nagios? Thanks in advance.

Here's what the config looks like:

commands.cfg
------------
define command{
	command_name    check_nt_service
	command_line    $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v
SERVICESTATE -l $ARG1$
}

services.cfg
------------
define service {
        use generic-service-bk
        service_description SQLPRD01 SQL Service
        check_command check_nt_service!mssql$sqlprd01
        freshness_threshold 600
        process_perf_data 0
        notifications_enabled 1
        hosts bkmvsql01i
        contact_groups bmk
}


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Morten Bekkelund
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ErgoGroup AS
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