passing a $ to nagios

[Morten Bekkelund]

oh great!

thanks, i've missed that :)


On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 11:24 +0100, rob.moss at uk.bnpparibas.com wrote:
> Use the double-dollar (as written in the docs)
> 
> 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 at ergo.no@lists.sourceforge.net - 30/08/2006 11:19
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> Subject:    [Nagios-users] passing a $ to nagios
> 
> 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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