Top-down data flow: from the BigFix server to the clients
The encoding capability when sending data from the BigFix server to BigFix clients is the same as BigFix V9.2; UTF-8 support of the top-down data flow is not available in BigFix. The top-down data flow (such as actions, site subscriptions, computer groups, custom sites, and more) works only if you use non-ASCII data that belongs to the FXF encoding.
For example, if you try to create a custom site whose name contains characters different from the
FXF encoding (suppose FXF encoding is Windows 1252, and the name of the site is
Site_albêrto
, where character ê
is specific to the Windows 1250
encoding), the BigFix console displays
an error message. The same error occurs when trying to create this custom site using the REST API or
Command-Line Interface (CLI).
On BigFix servers running on Windows
systems the installer sets the FXF encoding (x-bes-fxf-charset
) in the masthead
without any user interaction.
On BigFix servers running on Linux
systems the installer shows the x-bes-fxf-charset
setting to the user, proposing a
default value and allowing the user to confirm or change it. You can also change it by using the
ENCODE_VALUE
response key in the silent installations.