passing a $ to nagios

[Morten Bekkelund]

little extra note to this one...
i had to use ' to make it work ... like this : 

check_command check_nt_service!'SQLAgent$$SQLPRD01'



On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 12:28 +0200, Morten Bekkelund wrote:
> oh great!
> 
> thanks, i've missed that :)
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 11:24 +0100, rob.moss at uk.bnpparibas.com wrote:put 
> > 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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