[Xymon] Service names from XymonPSClient

[David Baldwin]

This works for me:

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

David.
> On 09/08/16 10:57, Jonathan Trott wrote:
>>> 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!
> 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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