monitor windows service with "$"

[Marc Powell]

On Oct 7, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Spook ZA wrote:

>>> nagios at nagios:~> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nt -H 10.2.30.190  
>>> -p 12489 -v SERVICESTATE -l "service$DB"
>>>  service: Not found
>>>
> I did an dirty hack / wrapper to get round this problem.

You didn't need to AFAIK.

> I called it: /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/msauxdb.sh and used it to check
> things like MSSQL$BKUPEXEC
> Nagios uses $ to interpret arguments to commands.

Note that he's running this from the shell directly. Nagios isn't  
doing anything to it at all; no macro parsing etc... To prevent nagios  
from trying to parse the $ as the start of a macro from within the  
command{} definition, use $$ ('service$$DB' or 'MSSQL$$BKUPEXEC' in  
your case).

--
Marc


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