try double \\ ?
Scot Kreienkamp
Scot Kreienkamp | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate
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On Aug 8, 2016, at 8:04 PM, Jonathan Trott <user-18b223f08ecd@xymon.invalid> 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?
Thanks,
JT
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