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Hello,

I'm implementing some checks on our vm hosts, the checks seem to be working just fine if I run them by hand, but when I run them with the Nagios engine is having serious issues reading the password from the resource file.

Currently what I have is something like this on the resource file:

$USER20$=monitor
$USER21$=\@T4rd3$$

As you can see I have scaped the @ with a backslash and the $ with an extra $ but is not working.
If I run it by hand it works using just backslashes for both special characters, any idea on how to tackle this one?

Thank you

If it is in the resource file you should not need to escape the characters at all.

Odd, I tried it in any way shape or form I can think of and still it doesn't work.

Any idea what may be the issue, I did double check the commands to see that the actual macros were being used and indeed they are.

what happens if you wrap the password in quotes?

"@T4rd3$"

You probably want to wrap the macro itself in quotes in the command:

Thank you for your input, I still have the same message when I add quotes to the macro in the command file.
I figure that the issue here is the $ inside the password, but sadly I'm not in the liberty to change it.

Any other suggestions are more than welcome.

Cheers

Does this particular plugin allow for accepting user\pass via file? You might be able to give it a flat file instead with the password and get out of having it in resources.