It looks like the format of the time stamp in the BigFix Inventory Data Import log changed in one of our environments. Below is what is now being seen (new format) as opposed to what was seen before in this environment (old format). The old format is also still being seen in our other environments.
a +0000 was added after the hours:minutes:seconds of the time stamp.
new format:
# Logfile created on 2023-06-22 06:00:00 +0000 by logger.rb/v1.2.7
2023-06-22 06:00:00 +0000 (+0:00:00.000) INFO: BFI version: 10.0.12.0-20230315-1641
old format:
# Logfile created on 2023-06-21 18:28:40 +0000 by logger.rb/v1.2.7
2023-06-21 18:28:40 (+0:00:00.000) INFO: BFI version: 10.0.12.0-20230315-1641
Does anyone know why this change took place? version 10.0.12 is in place in 3 environments, but only 1 shows this change. Upgrade to 10.0.12 took place more than 2 weeks ago in each of these environments.
I don’t see the change in my lab Environment. Is anything different on the one server where you see the change, especially since it didn’t change in the other 2 environments?
I’d be inclined to look toward localization settings on the endpoint itself - if this is on a Windows client, I’d check whether the Time Zone & Region options, Date Display, etc. have changed or been customized for a server.
You may want to open a support case on this if it’s impacting you, then the Dev team could collect more info on where we determine the time formatting for the log. Just based on the symptoms I think it could potentially be a Region setting, i.e. the difference between “US English” or “UK English” or “India English”. Though, honestly if that were the case I would also have expected the date format to swap between 2023-06-22 and 22-06-2023 and 06-22-2023.
( I’m not specifically aware of any logging issues with the scan tool around this, it just seems to me the kind of thing that could make a difference. )