Counters using Colons become truncated at colon

[Rich]

Currently, the behaviour of a counter (using check_nrpe) is to truncate at a colon, even if the colon is specifically escaped.

The command:
check_nrpe -H soupdragon -p 5666 -c CheckCounter '
PhysicalDisk?(1 C: S: D: E:)
Avg. Disk Read Queue Length' -a ShowAll MaxWarn=10% MaxCrit=70%

Gives rise to the log entry:

2007-04-13 11:01:33: debug:.\NSClient++.cpp:370: Injecting: CheckCounter:
PhysicalDisk?(1 C: S: D: E:)
Avg. Disk Read Queue Length, MaxWarn=10%, MaxCrit=70%
2007-04-13 11:01:33: debug:.\NSClient++.cpp:390: Injected Result: UNKNOWN -- Unknown argument:
PhysicalDisk?(1 C
2007-04-13 11:01:33: debug:.\NSClient++.cpp:391: Injected Performance Result:

All counters I have tried have given the same problem. Is there any way to allow the colon to be escaped, and parsed correctly as a component of the counter, and not a delimiter?

[mickem]

Fixed in the latest nightly (out in secs).
This is a "design issue" really, since the syntax is: [<alias>:]<counter> thus if you just enter a counter with colon it is hard to discern if it is an alias or not. What I do now is anything starting with a \ is a counter (not that unreasonable) so alias cannot contain \...

 -c CheckCounter -a '\\PhysicalDisk(C:)\\Avg. Disk Read Queue Length' ShowAll MaxWarn=10% MaxCrit=70

This ought to work now (havent tried that specific counter as I don't have an English XP at the moment.

MickeM