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Known issues

At the time of release, various issues have been reported that you should be aware of when running the probe.

This section covers the following known issues:

Probe cannot run as a Windows service
The probe is unable to be run as a Windows Service. You must run the probe under process agent (PA) control instead.
Defect in .NET 3.5 causes problems in East Asian locales when receiving high event data volumes
A defect in .NET 3.5 causes the probe to operate incorrectly when running in an East Asian locale and when event data volume reaches 2GB.
Running the probe on a server on which Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 is installed
If you are running the probe on a server on which Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 is installed, the EventDescription field of events received by the probe might not be populated.
Probe can only be started from the %OMNIHOME%\probes\win32 directory
The Probe for Windows Event Log can only be started from the %OMNIHOME%\probes\win32 directory using the console command-line option.
Probe does not stop when process agent stops
The Probe for Windows 2008 Event Log does not stop when process agent stops when using Netcool/OMNIbus 7.2.1 + Fix Pack 5.
Missing events during Resynch under high load
Under certain conditions the probe may encounter missing events during a Resynch operation.
Error with the retry function
If the Windows Event Source service is shut down or brought back up from an inactive status, the probe will attempt to reconnect to the event source regardless of the setting of the Retry property.
Enabling the retry function on a 32-bit Windows machine
If you are running the probe on a 32-bit Windows machine and have set the SourceType property to DotNet, to use the retry function, you must create an application configuration file named nco_p_wineventlog.exe.config and copy the file under the directory: %OMNIHOME%/probes/win32
Summary field gets truncated
Any Summary field values that exceed 255 characters are truncated.

Parent topic: Microsoft Windows Event Log