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Revision: 1.17
Committed: Tue Mar 9 20:47:55 2004 UTC (20 years, 7 months ago) by tdb
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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 tdb 1.17 <b>Wednesday 10 March 2004</b><br><br>
46     Version 0.9 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-0.9.tar.gz">here</a>.
49     This release brings new features and new platforms. We've added
50     information about network interfaces (duplex, speed, etc) along
51     with further statistics such as i/o packets and i/o errors. Support
52     has also been added for OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some
53     work has been done to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab
54     needs elevated privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
55     </p>
56    
57     <p>
58 tdb 1.15 <b>Wednesday 11 February 2004</b><br><br>
59     Version 0.8.2 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-0.8.2.tar.gz">here</a>.
62 tdb 1.16 The main focus of this release is adding support for Solaris 6.
63     We've also added python bindings so you can use libstatgrab directly
64     from python (see the extras directory). Finally, we've tidied up a
65     few bits of the code.
66 tdb 1.14 </p>
67    
68     <p>
69     <b>Wednesday 21 January 2004</b><br><br>
70     Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
71     Download it
72     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
73     This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file descriptor leak was
74     fixed. On Solaris some significant speed increases were made to the
75     disk mapping code, along with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms.
76     Also, the library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
77     released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
78 tdb 1.13 </p>
79    
80     <p>
81     <b>Tuesday 6 January 2004</b><br><br>
82     Version 0.8 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-0.8.tar.gz">here</a>.
85     This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial support for Cygwin.
86     On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk names using cNtNdNsN names rather
87     than the older sdN names. There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations
88     in various places. Finally, a new function has been added to make it
89     quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab may require on some
90     operating systems.
91 tdb 1.12 </p>
92 tdb 1.9
93     <p>
94 tdb 1.10 <b>Wednesday 22 October 2003</b><br><br>
95     Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
96     Download it
97     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
98     The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD
99     1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise
100     function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges
101 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
102     and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms. Finally,
103     saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the
104 tdb 1.10 statistics.
105     </p>
106    
107     <p>
108 tdb 1.9 <b>Saturday 18 October 2003</b><br><br>
109     Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
110     Download it
111     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
112     This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some
113     bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar,
114     and statgrab.
115     </p>
116 tdb 1.1
117     <p>
118 tdb 1.5 <b>Friday 10 October 2003</b><br><br>
119 tdb 1.4 Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
120     You can download it from our mirror site
121     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
122     This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
123     5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
124     packaging enhancements.
125     </p>
126    
127     <p>
128 tdb 1.1 <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
129     We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
130     You can download version 0.5.1 from
131     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
132     </p>
133    
134     <p>
135     <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
136     We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
137     You can download version 0.5 from
138     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
139     This release provides both documentation and examples, which
140     we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
141     next release with some useful tools.
142     </p>
143    
144     <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
145    
146     <p>
147     libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
148     statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
149     presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
150     key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
151     usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
152     traffic, disk I/O, and more.
153     </p>
154    
155     <p>
156 tdb 1.17 The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.2/2.4/2.6,
157     FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x, DragonFly BSD 1.0, and
158     Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to include as many operating
159     systems as possible.
160 tdb 1.1 </p>
161    
162     <p>
163 tdb 1.8 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first,
164     <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to
165     viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a
166     sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
167     extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything
168     else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is
169     a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a>
170     configuration file to use statgrab.
171 tdb 1.1 </p>
172    
173     <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
174    
175     <p>
176     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
177     primary download
178     <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
179     All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
180     </p>
181    
182     <p>
183     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
184     contained within the archive. If you're using
185     <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
186     <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
187     port to install libstatgrab for you.
188     </p>
189    
190     <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
191    
192     <p>
193     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
194     pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
195     the overview manual page:
196    
197     <ul>
198     <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
199     </ul>
200     </p>
201    
202     <p>
203     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
204    
205     <ul>
206     <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
207     <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
208     <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
209     <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
210     <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
211 tdb 1.17 <li><a href="get_network_iface_stats.html">get_network_iface_stats(3)</a></li>
212 tdb 1.1 <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
213     <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
214     <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
215     <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
216     </ul>
217 tdb 1.6 </p>
218    
219     <a name="screenshot"><h2>Screenshot</h2></a>
220    
221     <p>
222     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
223 tdb 1.7 </p>
224     <p>
225 tdb 1.6 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot">
226 tdb 1.1 </p>
227 tdb 1.3
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