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Service names from XymonPSClient

list Adam Goryachev
Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:24:50 +1000
Message-Id: <user-7078cf454a56@xymon.invalid>

On 09/08/16 10:57, Jonathan Trott wrote:
From: Adam Goryachev <user-92fd6827f6ae@xymon.invalid>
To: xymon at xymon.com
Date: 09/08/2016 10:17
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Service names from XymonPSClient
Sent by: "Xymon" <xymon-bounces at xymon.com>

On 09/08/16 10:04, Jonathan Trott wrote:
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?
Can you use a regex?
%^MSSQL.MICROSOFT..WID$

You might be able to insert the actual needed chars with the escape \
but I expect the above should work also...
Escaping the characters doesn't work, but regex works.
Thanks for the fix!
Not sure if it was clear, but I meant escaping the $ and # characters 
within the regex like this:

%^MSSQL\$MICROSOFT\#\#WID$

Just in case you also need to monitor MSSQL$MICROSOFT__WID and don't 
want to confuse the two....

Regards,
Adam
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Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au