Werk #3072: windows agent: agent can now handle utf-16 encoded output from plugins

Component

Checks & agents

Title

windows agent: agent can now handle utf-16 encoded output from plugins

Date

Feb 12, 2016

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

1.2.7i4	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.8b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

utf-16 is the default unicode encoding used on windows and appears to be the only one supported as an output encoding for vbs scripts. Previously the agent would print an empty string instead of the utf-16 encoded output. For this to work the plugin/local check has to use a unicode-enabled stdout and print a utf-16 BOM, i.e.: Set objStdout = fso.GetStandardStream(1, True) objStdout.Write(chrW(&HFEFF))

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