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Thanks, that did the trick. Just to be clear, however, passing the $ on the commandline with the traditional \$ worked fine. It just didn't work from within the Nagios configuration tool. Directly at a bash prompt worked fine.

I did get around the problem by just setting a valid password on the agent and in the web page setup, and life is good. Still had to quote the service, but that's not a big deal really. Good to hear a fix is coming, so two things from that: (1) When is the next version due out, or the fix, specifica...

Greetings, I've found an interesting and annoying bug in the wizard configuration of check_nt servicestate. If you attempt to put quotes around the service name, and you don't use a password, then "SERVICESTATE" and all other arguments get bumped up one variable. In other words, SERVICESTA...

The localtime file in /etc is probably wrong (mine was.) Easiest thing to do is find something that is in your timezone within the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory tree and link it to the localtime file. I just made a backup copy of my localtime file then linked. Something like: (1) mv localtime localt...

Fixed the host groups error--finally. Permissions were set to nagios.users for some @#$ reason. Changed to nagios.nagios and life is good on that one. One new issue: (1) Service checks of windows hosts (set up using the wizard) seem to always return "null." I'm trying to remember this one....

Greetings, I have a fully functional Nagios Core server, but I'm looking to move to the NagiosXI product. To that end, I have it up and running and have a few hosts installed. I'm having some horrible configuration problems however... some I've found workarounds for, others not so much: (1) Host Gro...