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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Mon Apr 25 12:37:22 2005 UTC (19 years, 7 months ago) by tdb
Content type: text/xml
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: LIBSTATGRAB_0_17, LIBSTATGRAB_0_16, LIBSTATGRAB_0_15, LIBSTATGRAB_0_14, LIBSTATGRAB_0_13, LIBSTATGRAB_0_12, HEAD
Log Message:
Add manpages for the various tools.

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# Content
1 <?xml version="1.0"?>
2
3 <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
4 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
5
6 <refentry id="statgrab">
7
8 <refentryinfo>
9 <date>$Date$</date>
10 <releaseinfo>$Id$</releaseinfo>
11 </refentryinfo>
12
13 <refmeta>
14 <refentrytitle>statgrab</refentrytitle>
15 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
16 <refmiscinfo>i-scream</refmiscinfo>
17 </refmeta>
18
19 <refnamediv>
20 <refname>statgrab</refname>
21 <refpurpose>sysctl-style interface to system statistics</refpurpose>
22 </refnamediv>
23
24 <refsynopsisdiv>
25 <cmdsynopsis>
26 <command>statgrab</command>
27 <arg rep='repeat' choice='opt'>OPTION</arg>
28 <arg rep='repeat' choice='opt'>STAT</arg>
29 </cmdsynopsis>
30 </refsynopsisdiv>
31
32 <refsect1>
33 <title>Description</title>
34 <para>
35 <command>statgrab</command> provides a sysctl-style interface to all
36 the system statistics available through libstatgrab. This is useful
37 for applications that don't want to make library calls, but still
38 want to access the statistics.
39 </para>
40 <para>
41 An example of such an application is mrtg, for which scripts are
42 provided to generate configuration files.
43 </para>
44 </refsect1>
45
46 <refsect1>
47 <title>Options</title>
48 <para>
49 The following options are supported.
50 </para>
51 <variablelist>
52 <varlistentry>
53 <term><option>-l</option></term>
54 <listitem>
55 <para>
56 Linux sysctl-style output (default)
57 </para>
58 </listitem>
59 </varlistentry>
60 <varlistentry>
61 <term><option>-b</option></term>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>
64 BSD sysctl-style output
65 </para>
66 </listitem>
67 </varlistentry>
68 <varlistentry>
69 <term><option>-m</option></term>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>
72 MRTG-compatible output
73 </para>
74 </listitem>
75 </varlistentry>
76 <varlistentry>
77 <term><option>-u</option></term>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>
80 Plain output (only show values)
81 </para>
82 </listitem>
83 </varlistentry>
84 <varlistentry>
85 <term><option>-n</option></term>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>
88 Display cumulative stats once (default)
89 </para>
90 </listitem>
91 </varlistentry>
92 <varlistentry>
93 <term><option>-s</option></term>
94 <listitem>
95 <para>
96 Display stat differences repeatedly
97 </para>
98 </listitem>
99 </varlistentry>
100 <varlistentry>
101 <term><option>-o</option></term>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>
104 Display stat differences once
105 </para>
106 </listitem>
107 </varlistentry>
108 <varlistentry>
109 <term><option>-t</option> <replaceable>DELAY</replaceable></term>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>
112 When repeating, wait DELAY seconds between updates (default 1)
113 </para>
114 </listitem>
115 </varlistentry>
116 <varlistentry>
117 <term><option>-p</option></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>
120 Display CPU usage differences as percentages rather than
121 absolute values
122 </para>
123 </listitem>
124 </varlistentry>
125 <varlistentry>
126 <term><option>-f</option> <replaceable>FACTOR</replaceable></term>
127 <listitem>
128 <para>
129 Display floating-point values as integers scaled by FACTOR
130 </para>
131 </listitem>
132 </varlistentry>
133 <varlistentry>
134 <term><option>-K</option></term>
135 <listitem>
136 <para>
137 Display byte counts in kibibytes
138 </para>
139 </listitem>
140 </varlistentry>
141 <varlistentry>
142 <term><option>-M</option></term>
143 <listitem>
144 <para>
145 Display byte counts in mebibytes
146 </para>
147 </listitem>
148 </varlistentry>
149 <varlistentry>
150 <term><option>-G</option></term>
151 <listitem>
152 <para>
153 Display byte counts in gibibytes
154 </para>
155 </listitem>
156 </varlistentry>
157 </variablelist>
158 <para>
159 If no <option>STAT</option> options are given, all will be displayed.
160 Specify 'STAT.' to display all statistics starting with that prefix.
161 </para>
162 </refsect1>
163
164 <refsect1>
165 <title>See Also</title>
166
167 <simplelist type="inline">
168 <member>
169 <citerefentry>
170 <refentrytitle>statgrab-make-mrtg-config</refentrytitle>
171 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
172 </citerefentry>
173 <citerefentry>
174 <refentrytitle>statgrab-make-mrtg-index</refentrytitle>
175 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
176 </citerefentry>
177 <citerefentry>
178 <refentrytitle>saidar</refentrytitle>
179 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
180 </citerefentry>
181 <citerefentry>
182 <refentrytitle>statgrab</refentrytitle>
183 <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
184 </citerefentry>
185 </member>
186 </simplelist>
187 </refsect1>
188
189 <refsect1>
190 <title>Authors</title>
191 <para>
192 This man page was derived from the man page written by Bartosz
193 Fenski for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
194 </para>
195 </refsect1>
196
197 <refsect1>
198 <title>Website</title>
199
200 <simplelist type="vert">
201 <member>
202 <ulink url="http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/">
203 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
204 </ulink>
205 </member>
206 </simplelist>
207 </refsect1>
208
209 </refentry>