Werk #15180: logwatch agent plugin on Windows: Enable monitoring of log files with non-ASCII characters in their paths

Component

Checks & agents

Title

logwatch agent plugin on Windows: Enable monitoring of log files with non-ASCII characters in their paths

Date

Feb 6, 2023

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.3.0b1 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.3.0b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.2.0b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.1.0p22	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Before this werk, the logwatch agent plugin crashed with

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character ...: ordinal not in range(128)

for log files whose paths contained non-ASCII characters.