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1.19 International Localization

The -i option was added in release 1.24 to offer the user the ability to report date and time fields in localized format,

that is, the format that is standard for your operating systems. Previous versions of the program selfishly reported

dates and times in USA standard format.

For example, if your native language is French, a numeric date would be reported in DD-MM-YYYY format, rather

than the MM-DD-YYYY format. Text dates would appear in French, rather than English as well.

The software determines your localization in what ever method is standard for your operating system. The

non-Windows distributions look at the environment variable, LC_ALL, which is usually set up by the system

administrator at O/S installation time. Windows-family operating systems allow the user to define the country and

localization through the Control Panel -> Regional Options.

Note: The reason we added this new flag, rather than make localized date/time fields the default everywhere, was to

protect users that might be using external scripts that utilize the date/time fields. This way, no end-user scripts will be

broken. The exception is for fields that display once and are not polled, such as the login banner you see if running

an eval version of the program or the timestamp in the -mpexport file.

See the setlocale man pages in your UNIX or LINUX operating system to learn more about the locale command

and how to set it. Windows-family computers also have localization capability, and SANtools software will report

localized date/time information on PCs which have localization enabled.

1.20 Link Speed Reporting

If you have a SCSI or SAS attached-device (which also covers a SATA disk attached to a SAS controller), then

chances are good that it returns the link speed. This is useful if you wish to determine if your devices are configured

and cabled correctly in order to provide maximum performance. The link speed option can be called in either

foreground mode (i.e, along with all of the reporting flags such as -I or -J ).

This feature can be invoked by appending the -link option to the command line. We added this feature as a request

from a vendor that wished to monitor devices in an external RAID enclosure. The company wished to know if and

when the drives were renegotiating the interface from U320 to U160 due to poor signal quality.

What is Link Speed?

The numbers below define how the Transfer Period Factor, decoded from the SCSI device, is reported by

SMARTMonUX. The Common MB/sec column reports how manufacturers typically market the speed of the device.

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