[Xymon] Service names from XymonPSClient

[Adam Goryachev]

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...

Regards,
Adam



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