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Service names from XymonPSClient

list Jonathan Trott
Tue, 9 Aug 2016 10:04:29 +1000
Message-Id: <user-57adea9124c1@xymon.invalid>

Hi all.

I have a windows service "MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID" that is being reported by the XymonPSClient.
To monitor this service I need to add the following line in my analysis.cfg file:

SVC MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID status=started

But, the # characters are seen as the start of a comment, so the result is this:

MSSQL$MICROSOFT: No matching service - want started/Any

I tried escaping the # characters with \ but that just resulted in:

MSSQL$MICROSOFT\: No matching service - want started/Any

Any ideas?

Thanks,
JT