[Xymon] Escaping special characters in analysis.cfg

[Timothy]

Alright, that did the trick!

Timothy

On 03/25/2015 11:07 PM, David Baldwin wrote:
> On 25/03/15 7:00 PM, Timothy wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to monitor the Windows Internal Database service. The 
>> Service Name is the following:
>> MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID
>>
>> However, thanks to the ## it shows all the characters that follow as 
>> comment so I added this line with regex to my analysis.cfg
>> SVC ^MSSQL\$MICROSOFT##WID status=started
>>
>> This gives following (wrong) output on my webpage:
>> ^MSSQL\$MICROSOFT: No matching service - want started/Any
>>
>> Is there a way I can monitor this particular service?
>
> I have the following working fine:
>
>         SVC "MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID" startup=automatic status=started
>
> David.
>