Escaping characters in the message

[devnull]

is there a way to escape characters like "|" in the message.

sample message:

[1439925251] PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;localhost;TSERVICE;2;TEST123|456

[hsmith]

is there a way to escape characters like "|" in the message.

sample message:

[1439925251] PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;localhost;TSERVICE;2;TEST123|456

What exactly are you trying to do, just make it so the | does not show up?

[devnull]

it only shows TEST123

but if the value of $SERVICEOUTPUT$ is TEST123|456 ACB DEF:HIJ FOO|BAR|TEST|THIS|IS|LONG|Blah: GHJD

notification doesn't even execute

[devnull]

ooopss.. i wanted to show all characters in $SERVICEOUTPUT$ including the pipes.

[Box293]

Your plugin should only be returning one pipe in the output.

The pipe is what separates the status information from the performance data.

This is why you only see TEST123

https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html#AEN200

[devnull]

Are there a list of characters that nagios doesnt allow in the $SERVICEOUTPUT$

[tmcdonald]

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tput_chars

[devnull]

thanks..

[tmcdonald]

You can of course edit that list, but remember that the pipe character has special meaning in Nagios. I tried escaping it with a backslash but it had no effect.