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I am fairly new to Nagios and apologize if this is a novice question.

I am trying to use ./check_wmi_plus.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u $ARG1$ -p $ARG2$ -m $ARG3$ $ARG4$

with $ARG3$ = checkservice
and $ARG4$ = -a "service1|service2|service3|service4|service5" -c _NumBad=0 -w _NumGood=5:

This works great if I use the actual "Service Name", however I would like to use the service's "Display Name" instead. Do you know if this is possible?

Thank you!

Due to how WMI queries the actual counters, I believe you need to stick to the actual service name, this is a windows thing I'm afraid. I'll take a look around and see if it is possible, however I would not hold out hope for this one.

Thanks for the quick reply! I will keep checking back in case you find a solution.

If not, then maybe I can arrange to have the service names changed to something more human readable (right now the service names look like AC7352G1-430F-19F8-E040-8DA8204616BA which is why I was hoping to use the Display Name instead).

Unfortunately as slansing mentioned, this is really an issue with the wmi queries more than anything, and that it must use service name. You can however, change the service name if you want via registry edits, but that's pretty far outside of the scope of items that we should be advising you on how to change.