logmon probe keep restarting with appfault

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

After adding the below profile and logmon probe keep restarting with crash - appfault.

<test01> 
     active = yes
     scanfile = nslookup %COMPUTERNAME%
     scanmode = command

Faulting application name: logmon.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5a7853c6
Faulting module name: MSVCR90.dll, version: 9.0.30729.6161, time stamp: 0x4dace4e7
Exception code: 0xc0000417
Fault offset: 0x00000000000552d4

Environment

logmon 3.92 on Windows Robot
Hub and Robot 7.93

Cause

In logmon probe string starting with % is reserved as time formatting primitives.

Resolution

If you want to use Windows environmental variable, you need to specify as follows.

<test01> 
     active = yes
     scanfile = nslookup %%COMPUTERNAME%%
     scanmode = command


 https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/GA/monitoring/systems-and-service-response/logmon-log-monitoring/logmon-im-configuration/logmon-advanced-im-configuration.html#concept.dita_f85019998d6d855df32fbdb3825e471c05453786_UseTimeFormattingPrimitives

 

%%

The percent sign

A literal '%' character