Monitoring a Microsoft SQL Server

[Jim Avery]

On 17 November 2011 15:17, Kaplan, Andrew H. <AHKAPLAN at partners.org> wrote:
> Hi there --
>
> Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion on the two plugins, and here are
> the results.
>
> When the command syntax for check_mssql was the following:
>
> ./check_mssql -H <ip address> -U <domain>\\<username> -P <password>
>
> or
>
> ./check_mssql -H <ip address> -U '<domain>\\<username>' -P <password>
>
> The error message displayed on-screen was:
>
> UNKNOWN: Invalid characters in the username.


The check_mssql plugin is way too fussy about what characters it will
allow in host names and user names.  On my system I edited the plugin
to remove the if/else sections entirely below the comments "//
Validate the hostname" and "// Validate the username".

hth,

Jim

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