I have a slightly different issue with special characters in analysis.cfg. Although, I get errors - both tests work fine.
On one server (which was 4.3.0 and recently upgraded to 4.3.18 on Ubuntu 64bit) I get the following errors in xymonlaunch.log:
2015-03-26 11:24:29 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable MYSERVERNAME1
The only place this seems relevant is from the analysis.cfg file entry:
HOST=myservername1
SVC IISADMIN status=started
SVC ReportServer$MYSERVERNAME1 status=started
On a separate Xymon server (4.3.13 Ubuntu 32bit) I do not get errors like those above, the entries in analysis.cfg look like:
HOST=anotherserver1
SVC MSSQL$SQL_2012 status=started
SVC SQLAgent$SQL_2012 status=started
Again, both tests work, just one seems to throw errors.
Thanks,
John
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-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of David
Baldwin
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5:07 PM
To: Timothy; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Escaping special characters in analysis.cfg
On 25/03/15 7:00 PM, Timothy wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to monitor the Windows Internal Database service. The
Service Name is the following:
MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID
However, thanks to the ## it shows all the characters that follow as
comment so I added this line with regex to my analysis.cfg SVC
^MSSQL\$MICROSOFT##WID status=started
This gives following (wrong) output on my webpage:
^MSSQL\$MICROSOFT: No matching service - want started/Any
Is there a way I can monitor this particular service?
I have the following working fine:
SVC "MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID" startup=automatic status=started
David.
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