HP Operations Manager for Windows

Select the logfile character set


Indicate the name of the character set used by the log file that you are monitoring. It is important to choose the correct character set. If the character set that the policy is expecting does not match the character set in the log file, pattern matching may not work, and message text can have incorrect characters or be truncated in the message browser. If you are unsure of which character set is used by the logfile that you want to monitor, consult the documentation of the program that writes the logfile.
Note NOTE:
The character set of the eventlog must be convertible to the agent node character set. For example, if agent character set is iso88591 (English) then, ACP 1252, ACSII, ISO 8859-1, OEMCP 850, OEMCP 437, ROMAN 8, or EBCDIC may be used. If the agent character set is sjis (Japanese), then ACP 932, ACSII, or EUC may be used. Japanese, and sjis may be used. If the agent character set is iso88595 (Cyrillic), then iso88595, ASCII, ACP 1251, or OEMCP 866 may be used.

The character sets supported by Windows and HP-UX nodes are:

ACP 1250 Central European
ACP 1251 Cyrillic
ACP 1252 Western European
ACP 932 Includes all characters defined in the shift-JIS code. This character set is supported by the Japanese versions of Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft Windows 95/98.
ACSII English (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
BIG-5 Taiwanese Taiwanese
EBCDIC (Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code) Generally used only on large IBM computers.
EUC Japanese (Extended UNIX Code) Japanese
EUC Korean (Extended UNIX Code) Korean
EUC Taiwanese (Extended UNIX Code) Taiwanese
GB-2312-80 Chinese Chinese
ISO 8859-1 Most West European languages, including French, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Portuguese, Italian, Albanian, Rhaeto-Romanic, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Faeroese, Icelandic, Irish, Scottish, and English. Also Afrikaans, Swahili.
ISO 8859-15 Latin alphabet
ISO 8859-2 Central and Eastern European languages, including Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian.
ISO 8859-5 Languages that use Cyrillic characters, including Bulgarian, Belorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian.
ISO 8859-6 Arabic
ISO 8859-7 Greek
ISO 8859-8 Hebrew and Yiddish
ISO 8859-9 Same as ISO 8859-1, but with Turkish, instead of Icelandic.
OEMCP 437 U.S. English
OEMCP 737 Greek (formerly 437G)
OEMCP 775 Baltic
OEMCP 850 All the characters used by most European, North American, and South American languages
OEMCP 852 Slavic (Latin II)
OEMCP 857 IBM Turkish
OEMCP 860 Portuguese
OEMCP 861 Icelandic
OEMCP 862 Hebrew
OEMCP 863 Canadian-French
OEMCP 864 Arabic
OEMCP 865 Nordic
OEMCP 866 Russian
OEMCP 869 IBM Modern Greek
ROMAN 8 European characters
SHIFT-JIS Microsoft's standard encoding for Japanese.
UCS-2 This codeset is intended to express all characters in the world in a united character set.
UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format-8) This codeset is intended to express all characters in the world in a united character set.

To select the logfile character set

  1. Right-click the policy and select Edit.
  2. Select Source.
  3. Use the Logfile Character set pull-down menu to indicate the character set of the log file.

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