JBoss ON rhqctl status command reports RHQ Storage Node as ?running or ?down

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Operations Network (ON) 3.3
  • Checking status of RHQ Storage Node using rhqctl status command

Issue

  • Checking status shows RHQ Storage Node is ?running and not ✔running
  • Meaning of status ?running or ?down

Resolution

The ? character can be ignored. The running and down state is correct and the decoration should be ignored.

To get the proper decoration to appear, the user's terminal who executed rhqctl must be using a locale configuration that supports the display of the heavy check mark character represented by U+2714. For example:

LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rhqctl status

Root Cause

The status of the JBoss ON storage node is checked and printed from the JVM. The ? character displayed is due to the terminal or user's locale setting not supporting the necessary character set required to print the expected ✔ or ✘ symbols.

It is important to note that this same issue does not affect the JBoss ON server or agent status due to their status lines being generated by their respective shell script.

This issue has been reported in This content is not included.Red Hat Bug 1323325 - rhqctl status can report storage node as ?running or ?down if locale does not support extended character sets

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