[smartmontools-support] Raw output?

[Schorschi Decker]

Just a suggestion, but some type of standard raw output would be a nice 
feature to add!  Maybe consider it?  I love the about from -a and -P for 
example, but parsing the output via scripts or monitoring tools is a 
real PITA at times.

-Schor

On 5/20/2021 03:19, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2021 10:35:04 +0200
> Claudio Kuenzler <napsty at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
>>> Critical Warning:                   0x00
>>> Temperature:                        51 Celsius
>>> Available Spare:                    86%
>>> Available Spare Threshold:          10%
>>> Percentage Used:                    0%
>>> Data Units Read:                    1.147.167 [587 GB]
>>> Data Units Written:                 1.945.358 [996 GB]
>>> Host Read Commands:                 15.382.874
>>> Host Write Commands:                18.487.599
>>> Controller Busy Time:               1.410
>>> Power Cycles:                       278
>>> Power On Hours:                     1.232
>>> Unsafe Shutdowns:                   277
>>> Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
>>> Error Information Log Entries:      0
>>> Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
>>> Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0
>>>
>> These are your "raw" values. As this is a NVMe drive, smartctl tries
>> to read them from the nvme output.
>> You might also want to use https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli to
>> read the nvme information from the drive, there could be differences.
> OK, Thanks. What I was expecting based on online examples and the
> result I get for my HD is something like this:
>
> ```
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>    1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
>    3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   182   180   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       5891
>    4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       273
>    5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
>    7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
>    9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       1228
>   10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
>   11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
>   12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       273
> 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       13
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   194   194   000    Old_age   Always       -       20508
> 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   118   113   000    Old_age   Always       -       32
> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
> ```
>
> Best I could get out of nvme-cli is:
> ```
> ~: sudo -i nvme --smart-log /dev/nvme0
> Smart Log for NVME device:nvme0 namespace-id:ffffffff
> critical_warning			: 0
> temperature				: 52 C
> available_spare				: 86%
> available_spare_threshold		: 10%
> percentage_used				: 0%
> endurance group critical warning summary: 0
> data_units_read				: 1153209
> data_units_written			: 1955609
> host_read_commands			: 15453414
> host_write_commands			: 18584586
> controller_busy_time			: 1419
> power_cycles				: 280
> power_on_hours				: 1239
> unsafe_shutdowns			: 279
> media_errors				: 0
> num_err_log_entries			: 0
> Warning Temperature Time		: 0
> Critical Composite Temperature Time	: 0
> Thermal Management T1 Trans Count	: 0
> Thermal Management T2 Trans Count	: 0
> Thermal Management T1 Total Time	: 0
> Thermal Management T2 Total Time	: 0
> ```
>
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