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Werk #11005: veeam_client: Remove all non-printable ASCII characters from piggyback section name

Component Checks & agents
Title veeam_client: Remove all non-printable ASCII characters from piggyback section name
Date Mar 30, 2020
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Incompatible - Manual interaction might be required
Checkmk versions & editions
2.0.0i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
1.6.0p12 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

If VM names contain non ASCII characters, the discovery could fail with an UnicodeDecodeError. This has been fixed.

In case you are affected, you need to update the plugin {veeam_backup_status.ps1} and adjust the related rules for {Hostname translation for piggybacked hosts}.

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