semicolon in check command
Tedman Eng
teng at dataway.com
Tue Oct 28 05:25:32 CET 2003
Try escaping with $ ($; ) instead of backslash ( \; )
"Paulo Fraser" <PFraser at LeapFrog.com> wrote in message
news:91F5F0B08F271B4EBA56C69BC40B6459024DF4 at emw2kml05.leapfrog.local...
> I am trying to use a semicolon as part of a URL in a check command and it
is
> not being accepted by Nagios. One the command line, the following command
> works great:
>
> # /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -H web -u
>
"/acp-servlet/LinkServlet;jsessionid=bogus.acp2_tomcat1?type=DOWNLOAD&packag
> eID=300-4" -s Math
>
> I get the following:
> HTTP ok: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 0.138 second response time |time= 0.138
>
> However, when I try to create a service using this plugin it fails because
> of the semicolon. I have defined a command using the check_http plugin in
> checkcommands.cfg:
>
> # 'check_content' command definition
> define command{
> command_name check_content
> command_line $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u $ARG1$ -s
> $ARG2$
> }
>
> In my services.cfg I then have the following definition:
>
> check_command
>
check_content!"/acp-servlet/LeapLinkServlet;jsessionid=bogus.acp2_tomcat1?ty
> pe=DOWNLOAD&packageID=300-4"!Math
>
> However, Nagios seems to be truncating everything at the semicolon. When
I
> use View Config in the web interface and view the Services it shows:
>
> check_content!"/acp-servlet/LeapLinkServlet
>
> I tried escaping the semicolon with a backslash ( \; ) but that didn't
work.
> Has anyone ever had to monitor a URL with a semicolon, is there someway to
> do this?
>
> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated?
>
> PS - Now that I'm a member of this list is there a way to see the email
> addresses in the mailing list archives? I found a post with a similar
> problem to mine by someone named Jamin back in January of 2003, but I
can't
> email him, since the email address is hidden.
>
> --
> Paulo Fraser
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Leapfrog Enterprises, Inc.
> (510) 420-5374
>
>
>
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