Help! nrpe_nt, service check when name contains $ problem

[L. Mark Stone]

On Tuesday, June 28, 2005 09:59 am, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Evan Touchett wrote:
> > I am trying to get nagios and nrpe to check a windows 2003 server
> > service.  The problem I am experiencing is that the name of the
> > service contains a $ in it.
 <snip> 
>
> Escape the $ with a $, so that you have double dollar-signs in your
> command, like so
> MSSQL\$$BKUPEXEC

Never tried escaping the dollar sign, we just use vertical, single 
quotes, like this:

               check_nt_service!'MSSQL$SHAREPOINT'

Works great for services that have spaces in them, too, like:

               check_nt_service!'Symantec AntiVirus'

HTH,
Mark

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