Help! nrpe_nt, service check when name contains $ problem

[Andreas Ericsson]

L. Mark Stone wrote:
> 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'
> 

The dollar-sign escape was necessary a couple of versions ago (beta 2?) 
to make Nagios not add a second dollar sign after the string, thinking 
it was a macro but not being able to resolve it.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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