Japanese Characters in External Variables File

If your external variables file contains Japanese characters, you must use the included native2ascii utility to convert the file before starting the agent.

Note 

The native2ascii utility is in the JDK bin directory. The utility is not available in the JRE.

To convert the external variables file:

1. Open a command prompt window.
2. Run the native2ascii utility, providing the input file and output file as arguments. For example, to convert an external variables file named abc.var to xyz.var, type:
     native2ascii abc.var xyz.var
3. Before starting the agent, specify xyz.var as a value to the -variables option in the Agent's configuration file.

Note 

Rulebase names may contain only numeric digits, underscore (_), hyphen (-), or a letter as defined by the UNICODE 2.0 standard. The latest version of the UNICODE specification can be found at www.unicode.org/ucd.