zabbix_agentd
Team C
[ZBX-10344] Document the recommendation to set UTF-8 locale for the agent Created: 2016 Feb 03 Updated: 2024 Apr 10 Resolved: 2017 Oct 06 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES |
| Component/s: | Documentation (D) |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | 4.0 (plan) |
| Type: | Documentation task | Priority: | Trivial |
| Reporter: | Glebs Ivanovskis (Inactive) | Assignee: | Martins Valkovskis |
| Resolution: | Fixed | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | agent, encoding | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | Not Specified | ||
| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Environment: |
UNIX |
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| Attachments: |
zabbix_agentd
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| Team: | Team C |
| Sprint: | Sprint 17, Sprint 18 |
| Story Points: | 0.25 |
| Description |
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It is a common situation on Windows when agent collects text data in non-Unicode character set and explicitly converts it to UTF-8 before sending to server. Luckily, most modern UNIX systems use UTF-8 by default and such conversion is not needed in UNIX agent. However, there are few deviant platforms on which agent seems to receive text information from the system in non-Unicode encoding if it is run using non-UTF-8 locale. This may influence interpretation of system.hostname, system.uname and other text-based items if they contain non-ASCII characters. Recommendation to set UTF-8 locale for agent will help in such cases. |
| Comments |
| Comment by Thomas Pellegatta [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
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To complete, on HP-UX systems, agent log file reports that :
Moreover this command : zabbix_agentd -t system.uname Displays some strange characters : system.uname [s|HP-UX G@ @ ] Unfortunately, setting locale to *.utf8 doesn't change this behavior. |
| Comment by Glebs Ivanovskis (Inactive) [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
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What is expected? Can you add uname command output. |
| Comment by Thomas Pellegatta [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
uname : HP-UX uname -a : HP-UX cerbere B.11.11 U 9000/800 108901508 unlimited-user license |
| Comment by Aleksandrs Saveljevs [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
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Which Zabbix agent version are you using? Could this be related to |
| Comment by Thomas Pellegatta [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
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Zabbix agent : 2.2.9 HP-UX 11.31 RISC |
| Comment by Aleksandrs Saveljevs [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
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| Comment by Thomas Pellegatta [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
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According to http://www.zabbix.com/download.php. I have the latest Zabbix 2.2 agent on HP-UX (2.2.9 HP-UX 11.31 risc) |
| Comment by Aleksandrs Saveljevs [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
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Thomas, please try the attached "zabbix_agentd". This is a Zabbix 2.2.11 binary for HP-UX 11.31 PA-RISC. |
| Comment by Thomas Pellegatta [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
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Despite the fact I chmod +x the file. I can't execute it :
file zabbix_agentd : zabbix_agentd: PA-RISC2.0 shared executable dynamically linked The host running the agent is HP-UX 11.11 and the agent is 11.31 isn'it problematic ? |
| Comment by Aleksandrs Saveljevs [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
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Well, I prepared a binary for 11.31 based on your comment above:
Should have probably paid attention to your uname output and asked for clarification. |
| Comment by Thomas Pellegatta [ 2016 Feb 03 ] |
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I'm sorry for this misunderstanding. In fact the agent is 2.2.9 HP-UX 11.31 RISC and is deployed on a HP-UX 11.11 host. |
| Comment by Aleksandrs Saveljevs [ 2016 Feb 08 ] |
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Thomas, could you please let me know whether a precompiled 3.0.0rc1 agent (http://www.zabbix.com/download.php at the very bottom) works for you? If not, I shall try to compile on HP-UX 11.11. |
| Comment by Thomas Pellegatta [ 2016 Feb 08 ] |
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Hi Aleksandrs,
I think it's a permission-related issue so chmod +x zabbix_agentd But I already have rights to execute... ls -l : -rwxr-x--- I won't be able to execute the file as I'm not root and system admin won't do it for me neither. file zabbix_agentd : zabbix_agentd: ELF-64 executable object file |
| Comment by Thomas Pellegatta [ 2016 Feb 08 ] |
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According to : HP
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