[Xymon] Service names from XymonPSClient

[Jonathan Trott]

> 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:
> > 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
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