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I have an smb check argument where the account necessary to reach the share has ! in the password. Is there a way to bypass having nagios interpret the !s in the password?
I have tried adding the \ in front of the ! but when nagios saves the command, the password is interpreted as an argument for each ! and it separates the password into different fields.

$USER1$/smb_checksize -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -S $ARG1$ -U $ARG2$ -P $USER11$ -W $ARG3$ -C $ARG4$ where user11 is the password but I get the response Error: Check Username/Password
this works fine on the command line. Just trying to get the syntax right. Password was defined in /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg as $USER11$=!blah!blah!blah

Can you show us the actual service config? Please, hide the password.
Do you have one or two backslashes? Is the macro wrapped in a single or double quotes?
When you say it works from the command line, do you mean running the check in a terminal (ssh/putty session) or testing within the CCM?

Found out what was wrong. It required the domain in front of the username for the account to work.

Found out what was wrong. It required the domain in front of the username for the account to work.

Great! I am marking this topic as resolved.