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Ive been running nagios core for a little while, and have it monitoring many mssql instances.

In core, I use a check_nt command with an argument of and it works great.
so I figured I would just do the same as I move items to Nagios XI, makes since right? BUT
when I click on test, this is the result
COMMAND: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nt -H sql9 -s "" -p 12489 -v SERVICESTATE -d SHOWALL -l 'MSSQL\$\$ECOMSYNC'
OUTPUT: MSSQL\$\$ECOMSYNC: Error

DOUBLE BUT

when saving, applying changes and check the service, it reads if I make it so the 'test' passes, once I apply changes, then the service fails.


ANybody else have this issue?

Try the following - go to Home->Service Detail->click on your service->Configure->Re-configure this service, change this: to this: and click on "Update".
Schedule a forced immediate check to verify the output. Let me know if this helped.

when I try your suggestion, and hit test..

You will likely be unable to use the test check command due to the escaping, please schedule an immediate check on the service and share the output as requested.

I know how to make it check correctly......I was pointing out that the 'test' button doesn't not work on MSSQL with an instance name.

It should, it may just be having a problem with the dollar signs. Do you have an instance name that does not use dollar signs to test against?

sadly, that is how they are all listed (with $ sign) in windows services.

I guess we have been aware of this for some time. As some plugins handle escaping differently than others, it is not really possible to make the test check command escape everything correctly for *all* plugins. This is brought p enough though that it my make sense in XI to make this a one off.