JBoss ON agent reporting error "org.hyperic.sigar.win32.Win32Exception: Buffer size (8192) too small (10332 needed)" when retrieving Windows event logs

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Operations Network (ON) 3.3
• Windows

Issue

• agent reporting error like:

2016-02-08 08:43:04,947 INFO  [EventManager.poller-3] (rhq.plugins.platform.win.Win32EventLogDelegate)- An error occurred while reading the Windows Event Log [Application]
org.hyperic.sigar.win32.Win32Exception: Buffer size (8192) too small (10332 needed)
	at org.hyperic.sigar.win32.EventLog.readlog(Native Method)
	at org.hyperic.sigar.win32.EventLog.read(EventLog.java:98)
	at org.rhq.plugins.platform.win.Win32EventLogDelegate.checkForNewEvents(Win32EventLogDelegate.java:131)
	at org.rhq.plugins.platform.win.Win32EventLogDelegate.poll(Win32EventLogDelegate.java:189)
	at org.rhq.core.pc.event.EventPollerRunner.run(EventPollerRunner.java:56)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Resolution

This issue has been reported as This content is not included.BZ-1307104 to be addressed in a future release of JBoss ON.

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