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Internationalization (i18n)

CA Virtual Assurance is an internationalized product (i18n) that uses UTF-8 character encoding to display language-specific characters. For example, the German ü (umlaut), the French è (grave accent), or Japanese characters in input and output data are displayed.

The UTF-8-encoded character support includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

• Textual descriptions of objects or resources
• Messages
• User names and passwords to connect to manageable resources
• Regular expressions (SystemEDGE)

The installation of this product is supported on English, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese versions of the supported operating systems. Also, for Windows, you can use a supported version of SQL Server that is either English, or the appropriate localized version for that operating system.

Important! If you edit a product file that uses UTF-8 encoding, be sure to save it with UTF-8 encoding. Operating systems that are not English and have multibyte characters must be saved with UTF-8 encoding. Windows Notepad can save with UTF-8 encoding.

General Limitations

Because CA Virtual Assurance integrates with other CA products, review the international support statements for integration products.

CA Virtual Assurance supports only host or cluster names with the characters 'a - z', 'A - Z', '0 - 9' and '-'. A host or cluster name cannot start with a hyphen ('-') or be all numeric. The NetBIOS name of a Windows system must match its DNS host name.

CA Virtual Assurance supports only ASCII characters in:

• SQL Server host names (subject to host name limitations), instance names, user names, and passwords
• CA EEM/Security host names (subject to host name limitations), user names, and passwords
• All CA SystemEDGE parameters with the exception of policy names
• SystemEDGE Privilege Separation User (UNIX and Linux only)
• SNMP read, read/write, and trap community strings
• %TEMP% environment variable
• Installation target paths of all CA Virtual Assurance components

Customize Console Display

If you want to display console data that contains language-specific characters, verify the following prerequisites for CLI commands and the NodeCfgUtil utility:

• Verify that the appropriate language support is available on your operating system.
• Enable the Lucida Console font in the Windows Command Prompt for running commands or NodeCfgUtil utility.
• Enable UTF-8 character encoding in the UNIX or Linux console that you want to use to run your commands. Enter the following command in the terminal console to display the current language setting:

  echo $LANG
  

  If UTF-8 is not enabled, enter, for example, the following command in a console window (use the appropriate character encoding: en_US.UTF-8, ja_JP.UTF-8, fr_BE.UTF-8, de_DE.UTF-8, and so on):

  LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG
  

AutoShell and CA Virtual Assurance CLI Commands

AutoShell and CA Virtual Assurance CLI commands support the -locale switch that allows you to specify a locale based on an IS0 639_3166 combination (for example: fr_FR for French). See the Invoking AutoShell section and CLI Commands in the Reference Guide.

Solaris Zones Uptime

The Solaris Zone Uptime MIB attribute (zoneAimStatZoneUpTime) is specified as DisplayString that supports ASCII characters only. The corresponding fields in the user interface do not display UTF-8 characters.

Default Package Wrapper Name

The default package wrapper name is not localized and reads 'default' in all supported languages. Custom package wrapper names support UTF-8 characters.

Service Response Monitoring AIM Configuration File

When you modify the svcrsp.cf configuration file to add language-specific characters, verify that the text editor you use supports UTF-8 as a storage format. If your text editor inserts a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark when saving the file, SystemEDGE ignores the Byte Order Mark when reading the configuration file.

SRM CLI Commands

The svcwatch CLI supports localized output and console-help information.

If you use the optional –L switch, the utility detects the current locale of the console and language catalog if available. If a language catalog is not found, the utility falls back to English as a default language.

Cisco UCS Limitations

The Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) only supports English language characters. Because the UCS Manager treats non-English characters as invalid, CA Virtual Assurance disallows unsupported characters in UCS fields for service profile, pools, and so on.

Business Objects Reports

Business Object reports require Microsoft SQL Server, English, or Japanese versions; no other languages are supported.

Installation Limitations

You can specify the language for a silent installation by using the parameter, –L locale (for example, Install.exe –L fr). The following locales are supported: en (English), ja (Japanese), de (German), and fr (French). If you do not specify a locale, the installer chooses the best fit (system locale or English (en)).

The DVD install path that you specify cannot contain Chinese characters, unless it is a Chinese system. If you specify Chinese characters on a non-Chinese system, the installer fails with the following message:

Unable to extract the compressed file. Please get another copy of the installer and try again.