a "$" in checkcommands definition

[Scott Barnhill]

Shoot, I thought I have fixed that. Okay that explains the 127 error.
 
Now I'm getting an UNKNOWN state (Orange) with status information:
check_nt: Unknown argument (null).
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Powell [mailto:mpowell at ena.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:52 PM
To: scottb at ssbweb.com; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] a "$" in checkcommands definition
 
You're using $USER$ instead of $USER1$ in the command path.


--
Marc

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Barnhill <scottb at ssbweb.com>
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tue Nov 11 18:53:37 2003
Subject: [Nagios-users] a "$" in checkcommands definition


All,

I'm trying to set up a check to check the number of items in an MSMQ
Queue on a windows server. I'm using NSClient to get to a Counter that
provides the number of items in the queue. From the command line the
check_nt command executes as expected. However when executed from within
Nagios it returns: Return code of 127 is out of bounds.)

The nagios configs are as follows:

define command{
        host_name                       wf1
        service_description             AUDIT Q MSG
        is_volatile                     0
        check_period                    24x7
        max_check_attempts              3
        normal_check_interval           3
        retry_check_interval            1
        contact_groups                  techops
        notification_interval           120
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_options            u
        check_command                   audit_queue!5!10
        }

and:

# Check the number of items in the MSMQ Audit Queue
define command{
        command_name    audit_queue
        command_line    $USER$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v
COUNTER -l '\\MSMQ Queue(wf1\private$\ppmd audit)\\Messages in
Queue','Items in MSMQ Audit Queue: %.f' -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$
}


I'm pretty sure that it's the fact that the MSMQ queue name in the -l
portion of the command has a "$" contained in it. Is there any way to
escape out the "$" ? I've tried single, double quotes, and "\" before
it. I've also tried putting the "private$" portion into $ARG1$. All with
no success. Does anybody have any additional ideas?

Thanks!
-scott
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