How to escape "!" in service arguements?
heinowalther opened this issue · comments
Describe the bug
I am trying to monitor a switch via the snmp check. The community string includes a "!" which I am trying to pass as an arg via "$ARG1$" to the command... But of cause this is interpreted as a separator... I have of cause tried the most common options like "community!" and "community!!" and "community!" etc. etc. but nothing seems to work?
Thruk Version
3.12 OMD 5.30
tbh, i would replace the community string with something that does not contain funny characters like quotes, dollar or exclamation marks.
If that is not an option, a common workaround is to define the "!" as user macro in your resource config and the use that macro.
ex.: resource.cfg
$USER25$=!
objects.cfg:
check_command check_snmp!... -p community$USER25$ ...
(assuming you are using naemon as monitoring core, basically this is a limitation of the core, not thruk)
I agree, but sadly it is used as part of another system, so we cannot change the communitystring...
But I guess there is no escape char for this?
We will create a custom command for this then... it's not pretty.. I think we will just add the communitystring in the command, and not use the resource.cfg for this...
Thanks for the fast response...
have you tried \!
Yes I have, but then the config-check complains :-)