Current the SMART report donwloads as:

 

 

hostname-smart-report-diskmount-date-time.rtf

 

so for example

 

tower-smart-report-disk11-20150725-0747.rtf

 

Ideally this should be named more after the disk and less after the hostname and disk location both of which are transient. I also worry about the date and tiem format as we have sen recently there is no one format that best fits the entire global userbase.

 

I would suggest instead:

 

smart-report-serialnumber-epoch.txt

 

(using txt wherever possible and not rtf)

 

If we could make it so that whenever a new disk is introduced to the array a smart report is created this would ensure every user would have a baseline for every disk regardless of if they know about the feature or not. Very useful for later debugging.

 

 

I had suggested model-serial-yyyymmdd-hhmm.txt

All of which are available, it stays the same per model-serial and the human date/time is sortable.

Epoch works for me, but then you have to strftime the value to convert it to a human readable format.

 

It's do-able.

I even have an strftime command and bash loadable shared library, but it's not necessary since yyyymmdd-hhmm is sort-able.

 

Better yet. let this be configurable with meta characters so people can use whatever date format they want.

 

@H = Host

@M = Model,

@S = Serial

and the rest of the % characters are passed to strftime.  fwiw. '%s' translates to the epoch.