Transcoded data in a managed server

Transcoding is the conversion of data from one character encoding to another. Server Automation automatically transcodes some of the data between Global Shell sessions and other sources of data. For example, the file names of managed servers are transcoded, but the contents of the files are not. To see which data is transcoded, see the following table. To display the transcoding mode of the current Global Shell session, enter the swenc command with no options.

Data transcoded for Global Shell sessions

Data

Transcoding

Objects in the SA model space, such as Facility, Customer, and Server. These objects are stored in the SA Model Repository (database) in UTF-8.

Between UTF-8 and the session encoding.

File and directory names of managed servers.

Between the managed server encoding and the session encoding.

Metadata of managed servers, such as user names and registry key names.

Between the managed server encoding and the session encoding.

File contents of managed servers.

None

Contents of Windows registries, services, COM objects, and IIS metabases.

None

rosh: Contents of saved scripts executed on managed servers (a rosh push operation).

None

rosh: Ad-hoc scripts executed on managed servers.

None

rosh: Command-line arguments to programs executed on managed servers.

None

rosh: Data streams (such as stdin and stdout) of programs executed on managed servers.

None

rosh: Data streams of rosh jump operations.

None

OGFS home, tmp, and var/tmp directories.

None