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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 1.15 </p>
43    
44     <p>
45     <b>Wednesday 11 February 2004</b><br><br>
46     Version 0.8.2 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-0.8.2.tar.gz">here</a>.
49 tdb 1.16 The main focus of this release is adding support for Solaris 6.
50     We've also added python bindings so you can use libstatgrab directly
51     from python (see the extras directory). Finally, we've tidied up a
52     few bits of the code.
53 tdb 1.14 </p>
54    
55     <p>
56     <b>Wednesday 21 January 2004</b><br><br>
57     Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
58     Download it
59     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
60     This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file descriptor leak was
61     fixed. On Solaris some significant speed increases were made to the
62     disk mapping code, along with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms.
63     Also, the library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
64     released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
65 tdb 1.13 </p>
66    
67     <p>
68     <b>Tuesday 6 January 2004</b><br><br>
69     Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
70     Download it
71     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">here</a>.
72     This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial support for Cygwin.
73     On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk names using cNtNdNsN names rather
74     than the older sdN names. There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations
75     in various places. Finally, a new function has been added to make it
76     quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab may require on some
77     operating systems.
78 tdb 1.12 </p>
79 tdb 1.9
80     <p>
81 tdb 1.10 <b>Wednesday 22 October 2003</b><br><br>
82     Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
83     Download it
84     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
85     The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD
86     1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise
87     function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges
88 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
89     and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms. Finally,
90     saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the
91 tdb 1.10 statistics.
92     </p>
93    
94     <p>
95 tdb 1.9 <b>Saturday 18 October 2003</b><br><br>
96     Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
97     Download it
98     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
99     This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some
100     bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar,
101     and statgrab.
102     </p>
103 tdb 1.1
104     <p>
105 tdb 1.5 <b>Friday 10 October 2003</b><br><br>
106 tdb 1.4 Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
107     You can download it from our mirror site
108     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
109     This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
110     5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
111     packaging enhancements.
112     </p>
113    
114     <p>
115 tdb 1.1 <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
116     We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
117     You can download version 0.5.1 from
118     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
119     </p>
120    
121     <p>
122     <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
123     We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
124     You can download version 0.5 from
125     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
126     This release provides both documentation and examples, which
127     we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
128     next release with some useful tools.
129     </p>
130    
131     <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
132    
133     <p>
134     libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
135     statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
136     presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
137     key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
138     usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
139     traffic, disk I/O, and more.
140     </p>
141    
142     <p>
143 tdb 1.10 The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD
144     4.x/5.x, and NetBSD 1.6.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many
145     operating systems as possible.
146 tdb 1.1 </p>
147    
148     <p>
149 tdb 1.8 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first,
150     <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to
151     viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a
152     sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
153     extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything
154     else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is
155     a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a>
156     configuration file to use statgrab.
157 tdb 1.1 </p>
158    
159     <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
160    
161     <p>
162     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
163     primary download
164     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
165     All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
166     </p>
167    
168     <p>
169     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
170     contained within the archive. If you're using
171     <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
172     <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
173     port to install libstatgrab for you.
174     </p>
175    
176     <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
177    
178     <p>
179     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
180     pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
181     the overview manual page:
182    
183     <ul>
184     <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
185     </ul>
186     </p>
187    
188     <p>
189     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
190    
191     <ul>
192     <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
193     <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
194     <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
195     <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
196     <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
197     <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
198     <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
199     <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
200     <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
201     </ul>
202 tdb 1.6 </p>
203    
204     <a name="screenshot"><h2>Screenshot</h2></a>
205    
206     <p>
207     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
208 tdb 1.7 </p>
209     <p>
210 tdb 1.6 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot">
211 tdb 1.1 </p>
212 tdb 1.3
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