[Nagiosplug-help] NSCLIENT - Monitoring a service with space character in its real name

[Mark Grafing]

In the nagios.cfg file there should be an section  regarding illegal characters that you could "try" removing the quotes and restarting the service to see if that helps...I have always used double quotes and that is the only thing i could thing of that might have an affect...unless of course you are choosing the wrong entry.
Thanks,
~MARK~

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	From: nagiosplug-help-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagiosplug-help-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of theal
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	Send the command line that you are trying, please.
	 
	Tony

		----- Original Message ----- 
		From: Luis Noronha <mailto:luis.noronha at oni.pt>  
		To: Mark Grafing <mailto:mgrafing at voyence.com>  ; theal at pace2020.com ; nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net 
		Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:51 PM
		Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-help] NSCLIENT - Monitoring a service with space character in its real name

		Thanks Mark, but we've already tried single and double quotes to no avail.
		It always returns service "unknown"
		 
		Cheers,
		LN

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		From: Mark Grafing [mailto:mgrafing at voyence.com] 
		Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:45 PM
		To: Luis Noronha; theal at pace2020.com; nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
		Cc: OniTelecom - Security NET4B
		Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-help] NSCLIENT - Monitoring a service with space character in its real name
		
		
		Quotes....put the service name in quotes... ; )
		Let me know if that helps you out...
		Thanks,
		~MARK~

			-----Original Message-----
			From: nagiosplug-help-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagiosplug-help-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Luis Noronha
			Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:23 PM
			To: theal at pace2020.com; nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
			Cc: OniTelecom - Security NET4B
			Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-help] NSCLIENT - Monitoring a service with space character in its real name
			
			
			Sorry, man. Didn't work totally. I believe the service real name (in registry) is what's used by "net stop/start" and NSCLIENT.
			Could someone contribute on this?
			 
			Thanks,
			Luis Noronha
			 

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			From: Tony Heal [mailto:theal at pace2020.com] 
			Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:02 PM
			To: Luis Noronha; nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
			Cc: 'OniTelecom - Security NET4B'
			Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-help] NSCLIENT - Monitoring a service with space character in its real name
			
			
			Have you tried changing the 'Display' name in services. If this is a Win2k or higher you can do this by right clicking the service, select properties and change the Display name. Not sure if this will work, but the command line 'net stop' and 'net start' will use the display name and that should only affect what is seen in services.msc, not what your program sees.
			 
			Tony

				-----Original Message-----
				From: nagiosplug-help-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagiosplug-help-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Luis Noronha
				Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:33 AM
				To: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
				Cc: OniTelecom - Security NET4B
				Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] NSCLIENT - Monitoring a service with space character in its real name
				
				
				Hi,
				 
				We're having trouble using "check_nt" (NSCLIENT plug-in) to monitor services that have a space character in its name (e.g. "Service ABC").
				 
				I read the following post   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8135478

				, and looking at the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services) one of the services really didn't have a space in its real name, and it solved the problem for this particular service :)

				 

				Still, there is another service that has a space in its real name, therefore it still doesn't work: check_nt_service can't monitor it. (This is a commercial application and we can't modify its code/installation...)

				Changing the service real name in the registry causes the service to stop responding to stop/start commands.

				 

				I also couldn't find any more posts on this subject in the archives :(
				 
				I know this is an old issue, but can anyone provide further help on this?
				Is there a way around the problem or do we have to require real service names with no spaces?
				 
				PS: I also have a problem with a service with an hyphen '-' in its real name...
				 
				Best Regards,
				
				Luís Noronha

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