From: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au> 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:

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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!

Regards, Adam

Thanks, JT

This works for me:

    SVC "MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID" status=started

David.

On 09/08/16 10:57, Jonathan Trott wrote:

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From: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au> 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:

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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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Scot Kreienkamp <Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote on 09/08/2016 10:34:48:

try double \\ ?

Scot Kreienkamp

Nope, results in this:

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

Thanks, JT

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On Aug 8, 2016, at 8:04 PM, Jonathan Trott <jtrott at dancrai.com> 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