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11     <title>i-scream libstatgrab homepage</title>
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26 tdb 1.1 <h1>libstatgrab</h1>
27    
28     <ul>
29     <li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
30     <li><a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a></li>
31     <li><a href="#download">Downloading</a></li>
32     <li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
33 tdb 1.6 <li><a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a></li>
34 tdb 1.1 </ul>
35    
36     <a name="news"><h2>News</h2></a>
37 tdb 1.9
38     <p>
39 tdb 1.10 <b>Wednesday 22 October 2003</b><br><br>
40     Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
41     Download it
42     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
43     The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD
44     1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise
45     function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges
46     libstatgrab needs on BSD platforms. The list of known file systems has
47     been increased, and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.
48     Finally, saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the
49     statistics.
50     </p>
51    
52     <p>
53 tdb 1.9 <b>Saturday 18 October 2003</b><br><br>
54     Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
55     Download it
56     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
57     This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some
58     bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar,
59     and statgrab.
60     </p>
61 tdb 1.1
62     <p>
63 tdb 1.5 <b>Friday 10 October 2003</b><br><br>
64 tdb 1.4 Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
65     You can download it from our mirror site
66     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
67     This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
68     5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
69     packaging enhancements.
70     </p>
71    
72     <p>
73 tdb 1.1 <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
74     We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
75     You can download version 0.5.1 from
76     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
77     </p>
78    
79     <p>
80     <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
81     We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
82     You can download version 0.5 from
83     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
84     This release provides both documentation and examples, which
85     we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
86     next release with some useful tools.
87     </p>
88    
89     <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
90    
91     <p>
92     libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
93     statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
94     presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
95     key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
96     usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
97     traffic, disk I/O, and more.
98     </p>
99    
100     <p>
101 tdb 1.10 The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD
102     4.x/5.x, and NetBSD 1.6.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many
103     operating systems as possible.
104 tdb 1.1 </p>
105    
106     <p>
107 tdb 1.8 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first,
108     <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to
109     viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a
110     sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
111     extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything
112     else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is
113     a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a>
114     configuration file to use statgrab.
115 tdb 1.1 </p>
116    
117     <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
118    
119     <p>
120     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
121     primary download
122     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
123     All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
124     </p>
125    
126     <p>
127     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
128     contained within the archive. If you're using
129     <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
130     <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
131     port to install libstatgrab for you.
132     </p>
133    
134     <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
135    
136     <p>
137     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
138     pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
139     the overview manual page:
140    
141     <ul>
142     <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
143     </ul>
144     </p>
145    
146     <p>
147     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
148    
149     <ul>
150     <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
151     <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
152     <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
153     <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
154     <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
155     <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
156     <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
157     <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
158     <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
159     </ul>
160 tdb 1.6 </p>
161    
162     <a name="screenshot"><h2>Screenshot</h2></a>
163    
164     <p>
165     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
166 tdb 1.7 </p>
167     <p>
168 tdb 1.6 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot">
169 tdb 1.1 </p>
170 tdb 1.3
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