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Escaping special characters in analysis.cfg

list Japheth Cleaver
Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:29:50 -0700
Message-Id: <user-3316dbb5328b@xymon.invalid>

On Thu, March 26, 2015 5:21 am, user-7adce57665bb@xymon.invalid wrote:
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.
This is being caused by attempted variable substitution in the files
present. "$MYSERVERNAME1" presumably isn't present in the environment, and
libxymon is complaining since it doesn't have an internal default for it
either.

Does encasing that field in quotes solve the problem for you? That might
be the easiest option, as I believe escaping the '$' there will send the
escape downstream.


Regards,

-jc