Schecking Services with $'s in theri names

[Paul Broadwith]

I have a service called MSSQL$SBSMONITORING that I need to check. When I pass this service name through check_nt_net and onto NC_NET the service name is being detected as MSSQL (ie. everything before the $). I also have SQLAGENT$SBSMONITORING which has exactly the same problem.

I have tried enclosing the service name in double quotes but still nothing.

There is probably something straightforward about passing the $ through (maybe prefixing it with something). Any suggestions?

[Paul Broadwith]

My apologies for the dreadful spelling in the last post!

[tony]

Thanks for posting,

This issue is actually related to how nagios processes commands,
the way I usually get through this is with $$ for each $
I believe this is due to Nagios useing the $ in its macros.

I actually just posted a message in the nagios User list last week with this same issue on a different commamd.

Tony

[Paul Broadwith]

Tony,

Thanks for your reply.

This didn't work for me, however I dug out the message you posted on the Nagios list (which has too many messages for me to read so I tend to skip it :-(). One of the suggestions on there was to use $"$"$ which worked for me, sort of. I had to amend it so that it read MSSQL"$"SBSMONITORING which did work.

Thanks again.