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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello SmartmonTools folks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are in the process of evaluating smartmontools as a possible source of data of drive health. After running it on several text systems we have noticed that the response it produces is text based and can vary by vendors. We were wondering
if there is a way to obtain the smartmontools data in a more structured format (json, xml, binary), rather than a text to be parsed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As you’d imagine text parsing is prone to breaking and we are looking for a more robust mechanism to gather the data.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope you can provide any information that would be helpful in this matter.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jose<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">Jose Alvarez<br>
</span></b><a href="mailto:alvarezjose@vmware.com%0b"><span style="color:blue">alvarezjose@vmware.com<br>
</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">Mobile: 737.216.3110</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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