Problem with vfs.file.contents

[Oxhyd]

Hello,

I want to go up the contents of a txt file and I have a problem.



In last data, it returns to me "??T"



In the file I want to recover, there is "Testing" written in it and if it's empty it just returns me "??"
If you have an idea of the problem .. Thanks in advance

[Oxhyd]

In log :
5700:20190924:111403.786 for key [vfs.file.contents[C:\Program Files\Zabbix Agent\scripts\Maintenance\EventLog.txt]] received value [ÿþT]
5700:20190924:111403.787 In process_value() key:'SRV:vfs.file.contents[C:\Program Files\Zabbix Agent\scripts\Maintenance\EventLog.txt]' lastlogsize:null value:'ÿþT'
700:20190924:111403.787 buffer: new element 0
5700:20190924:111403.788 End of process_value():SUCCEED

Well, I did some tests and it's the .txt format that does not work ..
It annoys me a lot, is it a bug?
I just made a file without format with text inside and it works ..
Would anyone have any idea why this does not work with a .txt file?

Thank you

[Atsushi]

Isn't the character code of the file a character code such as UTF-8 instead of ASCII? And did you create it with notepad.exe on Windows?
When you create a UTF-8 file with notepad.exe on Windows, a special character called BOM is inserted first. Then, when Zabbix agent tries to read it, it cannot read normally because of the special character.

Try writing to an ASCII file or writing to the file you want to monitor in such a way that the BOM is not inserted.

[Oxhyd]

Thank you, that was the problem

My question now, it is possible to read a file in ANSI or other?
Because I have a lot of file automatically generate applications that I want to monitor but if that is not possible, it's annoying ..
Thank you

[dimir]

You can vote for

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-16596

Also some workarounds are suggested there in comments.