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Solaris/LINUX Red Hat Policy Server Logging UTF-8 Characters to an Oracle Database

A Solaris/LINUX Red Hat Policy Server can log UTF-8 characters to an Oracle audit log database. To enable this configuration, you need to set the following environment variables:

For a simplified Chinese operating system

• LANG=zh_CN.utf8

For a Japanese operating system

• LANG=jp_JP.UTF-8

You set the LANG variable system-wide or just for the Policy server process.

Note: To avoid impacting any other applications, make sure that you set this variable for the Policy Server process only.

Database Driver Variable

• IANAAppCodePage=utf-8

You set this variable in the appropriate data source definition section of the system_odbc.ini file, installed in <policy_server_installation>/db.

Oracle Client Settings

Since the Policy Server uses the Oracle wire protocol driver, an Oracle client is not necessary. However, if you need an Oracle SQLPLUS client in your environment to read data from the audit log database, you may have to set one or both of the following environment variables to correctly display the multi-bytes characters:

For a simplified Chinese operating system

• LANG=zh_CN.utf8

For a Japanese operating system

• LANG=jp_JP.UTF-8

For the Oracle SQLPlus Client

• NLS_LANG (For example, NLS_LANG=Japanese_Japan.UTF8)

Note: For more information, see the operating system and database client configuration manual.