Illegal characters in variable definition.

[reinaldo.gomes]

I'm getting the above error when trying to add a variable value through CCM, which contains '$'
How can I add such a value to a variable without causing Nagios any trouble? Can I just ignore it and add it through the config file itself?

[hsmith]

What are you trying to add the variable to?

[reinaldo.gomes]

I need to add a password to a SQL connection through ODBI

Host Management -> Misc Settings -> Manage Variable Definitions:
Variable Name: _SOMEPASS
Variable Value: Pa$$

I'd rather use the odbc.ini file to set the password, but it seems that the FreeTDS driver does not support such parameter.

[rkennedy]

You should be able to use the /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg file, and then define a custom $USER#$ variable.

From there, have your script reference the $USER#$ variable, rather than the password.

[reinaldo.gomes]

I forgot to mention that my nagios version is 2012R2.9
I just found out that this issue is gone on version 5.x.x

Anyway, the resource.cfg did not work for me, for some reason... I'm still looking into it.

[hsmith]

What do you mean that it didn't work for you?

Have you spun up a XI 5.2.3 test server to check?

[reinaldo.gomes]

The resource.cfg thing wasn't working because it was using some "old" config... I ran 'service nagios reload' and now it's working

Yes, I had set up a 5.2.2 nagios server a couple weeks ago, but unfortunately I still couldn't make it go live due to my company's internal restrictions. I used it just now to test the 'illegal characters' issue.

[rkennedy]

Ah. All is well now after restarting Nagios then?

Am I good to close this thread out?

[reinaldo.gomes]

Yeah. So, I have to use the resource.cfg workaround for now, until I can move to v5.x.x
Thank you all.