[Xymon] Escaping special characters in analysis.cfg

[john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com]

I have a slightly different issue with special characters in analysis.cfg.  Although, I get errors - both tests work fine.

On one server (which was 4.3.0 and recently upgraded to 4.3.18 on Ubuntu 64bit) I get the following errors in xymonlaunch.log:
2015-03-26 11:24:29 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable MYSERVERNAME1

The only place this seems relevant is from the analysis.cfg file entry:
HOST=myservername1
        SVC IISADMIN status=started
        SVC ReportServer$MYSERVERNAME1 status=started

On a separate Xymon server (4.3.13 Ubuntu 32bit) I do not get errors like those above, the entries in analysis.cfg look like:
HOST=anotherserver1
        SVC MSSQL$SQL_2012 status=started
        SVC SQLAgent$SQL_2012 status=started

Again, both tests work, just one seems to throw errors.

Thanks,
John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of David
> Baldwin
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5:07 PM
> To: Timothy; xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Escaping special characters in analysis.cfg
>
> 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.
>
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