Service Monitoring with Special Characters

[Pponze]

We have a Windows Internal Database for WSUS we'd like to monitor. How do we go about monitoring this service due to the special characters in the name?

Service name: MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID

define service{
use generic-service
host_name VCAUTIL01
service_description MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID
event_handler win_service_restart
event_handler_enabled 1
check_command check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l $SERVICEDESC$
}


Thanks,

Paolo

[rkennedy]

Try changing the $ to "$$" (with the double quotes), I'm not sure if you'll need to escape out the ## or not. Could you try this, and let us know what the check is reporting?

[bwallace]

Your service definition will need a backslash \ and two $$ signs.

MSSQL\$$INSTANCE

Refer to this doc https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=168

[Pponze]

Thanks for the tips and link. Tried both "$$" and \$$. Got a check error. I did rule out that the ## doesn't require an escape. Ran a check with the name MSSQLMICROSOFT##WID and it passed.

[Box293]

Is it resolved?

If not, can you show us your testing command from the command line and the output produced.

[Pponze]

Unfortunately it's not resolved. Here is the command:

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

[Box293]

Please show us your check_nt command at the command line along with the output. Before making it work in Nagios, lets see it working on the command line first.

[Pponze]

Box293, would this be the correct command to run check_nt?

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nt -H x.x.x.x -v SERVICESTATE -d SHOWALL -l 'MSSQL\$$MICROSOFT##WID'

[tgriep]

Try running the command like the example below and see if this works for you

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nt -H x.x.x.x -v SERVICESTATE -d SHOWALL -l "MSSQL$"$"MICROSOFT##WID"

[Pponze]

Ran the suggested command and got this response:

root@nagios:/# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nt -H 1.2.3.4 -v SERVICESTATE -d SHOWALL -l "MSSQL$"$"MICROSOFT##WID"
Connection refused
could not fetch information from server
root@nagios:/#

Got the same results pointing to the WSUS service which we're monitoring that service successfully.

root@nagios:/# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nt -H 1.2.3.4 -v SERVICESTATE -d SHOWALL -l "WsusService"
Connection refused
could not fetch information from server
root@nagios:/#