UTF-8 characters in Nagios UI

Ian Masters ian at acces.co.jp
Mon May 10 09:41:41 CEST 2010


Is this relevant?

http://www.mail-archive.com/pld-cvs-commit@lists.pld-linux.org/msg195151.html

Looks like it might be but I don't really understand it.
I'm using Nagios Version 3.0.6 on CentOS. I wonder if this is fixed in a later 
version.

Ian

> I think the status info is Ajax-ed in... If so, it’s a separate HTTP
> request and process to display it, so being “different” should come as
> no surprise.
>
> So it may not be output by the server as UTF-8, or the Ajax routines to
> parse/display the output may be maniuplating it as if it’s ASCII...
>
> You could probably do some digging in LiveHeaders in FireFox to narrow
> down the issue a bit...
>
> You may even be able to solve it :-)
>
> On 5/7/10 1:08 AM, "Kumar, Ashish" <xml.devel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     We are currently using Nagios 3.0.6 on RHEL 5.
>
>     I have checked Nagios archives already but there is something I
>     found strange, so I am posting it here.
>
>     I was testing UTF-8 support in Nagios with following are the results:
>
>     1.�� Created 3 filesystems /����������, /������������, /���������
>     (thank you Google translate)
>     Results:��
>     All of them appear as it is in "Service section" in Nagios UI
>
>     2.�� Defined a NSCA service and sent messages in different languages
>     with different severity level
>     Result:��
>     E-mails are sent with UTF-8 characters perfectly fine
>     The message appears with junk characters in "Status Information"
>     section of Nagios UI
>
>     It's pretty interesting that UTF-8 characters appear perfectly fine
>     in "Service" section but not in "Status Information" that too in
>     same UI.�� Is there a way to fix this?
>
>     Thank you.
>
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