[Xymon] Escaping special characters in analysis.cfg

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Wed, March 25, 2015 1:00 am, 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?


Timothy,

Can you try SVC %^MSSQL\$MICROSOFT\#\#WID as well?


HTH,

-jc