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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 1.12
38     <p>
39     To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not subscribe
40     to our project over on <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">
41     freshmeat</a>?
42 tdb 1.13 </p>
43    
44     <p>
45     <b>Tuesday 6 January 2004</b><br><br>
46     Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
47     Download it
48     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">here</a>.
49     This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial support for Cygwin.
50     On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk names using cNtNdNsN names rather
51     than the older sdN names. There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations
52     in various places. Finally, a new function has been added to make it
53     quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab may require on some
54     operating systems.
55 tdb 1.12 </p>
56 tdb 1.9
57     <p>
58 tdb 1.10 <b>Wednesday 22 October 2003</b><br><br>
59     Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
60     Download it
61     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
62     The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD
63     1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise
64     function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges
65 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
66     and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms. Finally,
67     saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the
68 tdb 1.10 statistics.
69     </p>
70    
71     <p>
72 tdb 1.9 <b>Saturday 18 October 2003</b><br><br>
73     Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
74     Download it
75     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
76     This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some
77     bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar,
78     and statgrab.
79     </p>
80 tdb 1.1
81     <p>
82 tdb 1.5 <b>Friday 10 October 2003</b><br><br>
83 tdb 1.4 Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
84     You can download it from our mirror site
85     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
86     This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
87     5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
88     packaging enhancements.
89     </p>
90    
91     <p>
92 tdb 1.1 <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
93     We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
94     You can download version 0.5.1 from
95     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
96     </p>
97    
98     <p>
99     <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
100     We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
101     You can download version 0.5 from
102     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
103     This release provides both documentation and examples, which
104     we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
105     next release with some useful tools.
106     </p>
107    
108     <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
109    
110     <p>
111     libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
112     statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
113     presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
114     key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
115     usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
116     traffic, disk I/O, and more.
117     </p>
118    
119     <p>
120 tdb 1.10 The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD
121     4.x/5.x, and NetBSD 1.6.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many
122     operating systems as possible.
123 tdb 1.1 </p>
124    
125     <p>
126 tdb 1.8 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first,
127     <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to
128     viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a
129     sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
130     extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything
131     else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is
132     a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a>
133     configuration file to use statgrab.
134 tdb 1.1 </p>
135    
136     <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
137    
138     <p>
139     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
140     primary download
141     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
142     All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
143     </p>
144    
145     <p>
146     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
147     contained within the archive. If you're using
148     <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
149     <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
150     port to install libstatgrab for you.
151     </p>
152    
153     <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
154    
155     <p>
156     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
157     pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
158     the overview manual page:
159    
160     <ul>
161     <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
162     </ul>
163     </p>
164    
165     <p>
166     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
167    
168     <ul>
169     <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
170     <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
171     <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
172     <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
173     <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
174     <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
175     <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
176     <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
177     <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
178     </ul>
179 tdb 1.6 </p>
180    
181     <a name="screenshot"><h2>Screenshot</h2></a>
182    
183     <p>
184     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
185 tdb 1.7 </p>
186     <p>
187 tdb 1.6 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot">
188 tdb 1.1 </p>
189 tdb 1.3
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