<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">$$ didn't work for me, but changing the command worked like a charm. </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Thanks so much!</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Regards</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Brandon<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Brandon Vanderberg <brandon_vanderberg@yahoo.com><BR>To: Anthony Montibello <amontibello@gmail.com><BR>Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR>Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:34:30 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NCSA Service check question<BR><BR> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">That looks good. I'll test it tomorrow. <BR><BR>Thanks!<BR><BR> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Anthony Montibello <amontibello@gmail.com><BR>To: Brandon Vanderberg <brandon_vanderberg@yahoo.com><BR>Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR>Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:12:25 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NCSA Service check question<BR><BR> <DIV>its been a while since I looked at that issue, But </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I thought $$ works? (my test sever is down so I cannot test)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sometimes having the command definition like such helps:</DIV> <DIV>command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -v SERVICESTATE -l '$ARG1$' -d SHOWALL</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>then you do not need to worry about loosing the ' between the command and the definition,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>but my test server is down so I cannot test these options.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tony (Author of NC_Net)<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Nov 15, 2007 5:08 PM, Brandon Vanderberg <<A href="mailto:brandon_vanderberg@yahoo.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:brandon_vanderberg@yahoo.com">brandon_vanderberg@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> <DIV>Hi all, quick question here that I hope is appropriate for this list. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'm querying a Windows box w/ NSClient for services using check_nt -v SERVICESTATE -l (list of services). </DIV> <DIV>One of the services I'm checking has a dollar sign ($) in its name. This causes the check to barf. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>A standard check runs fine when surrouded by ' : </DIV> <DIV> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H host.blah.blah -v SERVICESTATE -l 'MSSQL$VITALSQLEXPRESS'<BR>All services are running</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>But using the same in my services.cfg with either ' ` or " doesn't have the desired effect. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Here's my checkcommand.cfg entry if it's helpful.</DIV> <DIV><BR>define command{<BR> command_name check_nt_service<BR> command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -v SERVICESTATE -l $ARG1$ -d SHOWALL<BR></DIV> <DIV>Any ideas? Renaming the service really isn't an option and though I can monitor the process, I'd really rather not. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards and thanks in advance,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>B Vanderberg</DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft<BR>Defy all challenges. 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