[Xymon] Escaping special characters in analysis.cfg

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Thu, March 26, 2015 5:21 am, john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com 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