{"id":699,"date":"2011-06-12T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=699"},"modified":"2022-11-05T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:53:43","slug":"nagios-monitoring-a-service-with-a-dollar-sign-or-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Nagios Monitoring a service with a dollar sign or spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>define service{\n\nuse                     generic-service\n\nhostgroup               dpm-servers\n\nservice_description     DPM Reporting Services\n\ncheck_command           check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l ReportServer\"$$\"DPMDB2010\n\n}\n\ndefine service{\n\nuse                     generic-service\n\nhost_name               FIN01\n\nservice_description     Mondas\n\ncheck_command           check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l \"Mondas RADIO Server\"\n\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So for each of the services above, one with spaces in it the other containing a dollar sign the following is needed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ReportServer$DPMDB2010 -&gt; ReportServer&#8221;$$&#8221;DPMDB2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mondas RADIO Server -&gt; &#8220;Mondas RADIO Server&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for each of the services above, one with spaces in it the other containing a dollar sign the following is needed: ReportServer$DPMDB2010 -&gt; ReportServer&#8221;$$&#8221;DPMDB2010 Mondas RADIO Server -&gt; &#8220;Mondas RADIO Server&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-nagios-and-nagiosxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}