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Revision: 1.30
Committed: Wed Aug 25 07:55:43 2004 UTC (20 years, 2 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
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New releases of libstatgrab and pystatgrab.

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1 tdb 1.20 <!--#include virtual="/doctype.inc" -->
2 tdb 1.21 <head>
3     <title>
4     i-scream libstatgrab homepage
5     </title>
6 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/style.inc" -->
7 tdb 1.21 </head>
8     <body>
9     <div id="container">
10     <div id="main">
11 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/header.inc" -->
12 tdb 1.21 <div id="contents">
13     <h1 class="top">
14     i-scream libstatgrab homepage
15     </h1>
16     <div id="topnav">
17     <ul>
18     <li>
19     <a href="#news">News</a>
20     </li>
21     <li>
22     <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
23     </li>
24     <li>
25     <a href="#download">Downloading</a>
26     </li>
27     <li>
28 tdb 1.25 <a href="#bindings">Language Bindings</a>
29     </li>
30     <li>
31 tdb 1.22 <a href="#development">Development</a>
32     </li>
33     <li>
34 tdb 1.21 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
35     </li>
36     <li>
37     <a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a>
38     </li>
39     </ul>
40     </div>
41     <h2>
42     <a id="news">News</a>
43     </h2>
44     <p>
45     To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
46     subscribe to our project over on
47     <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
48     </p>
49     <h3>
50 tdb 1.30 Wednesday 25 August 2004
51     </h3>
52     <p>
53     Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
54     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
55     </p>
56     <p>
57     This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
58     adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
59     the tarball for more details.
60     </p>
61     <h3>
62 tdb 1.28 Tuesday 27 July 2004
63     </h3>
64     <p>
65     Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
66 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
67 tdb 1.28 </p>
68     <p>
69     This release fixes a problem with the shared library
70     version number in the last release.
71     </p>
72     <h3>
73 tdb 1.27 Monday 26 July 2004
74     </h3>
75     <p>
76     Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
77 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
78 tdb 1.27 </p>
79     <p>
80     This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
81     We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
82     NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
83     that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
84     variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
85     suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
86     we've added error reporting functions that store errno
87     values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
88     NEWS file.
89     </p>
90     <h3>
91 tdb 1.24 Thursday 20 May 2004
92     </h3>
93     <p>
94     Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
95 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
96 tdb 1.24 </p>
97     <p>
98     This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
99     of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
100     this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
101     we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
102     for those who still need the old functions we have provided
103     compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
104     </p>
105     <p>
106     The other main change in this release is a new function to
107     provide full details on currently running processes. See the
108     documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
109     this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
110     process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
111     error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
112     see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
113     </p>
114     <p>
115     Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
116     of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
117     bindings - they're now available as their own project called
118     <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
119     </p>
120     <h3>
121 tdb 1.21 Sunday 21 March 2004
122     </h3>
123     <p>
124     pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
125     bindings, has been released. Check out it's
126     <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
127     </p>
128     <h3>
129     Wednesday 10 March 2004
130     </h3>
131     <p>
132     Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
133 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
134 tdb 1.21 </p>
135     <p>
136     This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
137     added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
138     etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
139     errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
140     OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
141     to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
142     privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
143     </p>
144     <h3>
145     Wednesday 11 February 2004
146     </h3>
147     <p>
148     Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
149 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
150 tdb 1.21 </p>
151     <p>
152     The main focus of this release is adding support for
153     Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
154     libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
155     directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
156     code.
157     </p>
158     <h3>
159     Wednesday 21 January 2004
160     </h3>
161     <p>
162     Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
163 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
164 tdb 1.21 </p>
165     <p>
166     This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
167     descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
168     speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
169     with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
170     library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
171     released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
172     </p>
173     <h3>
174     Tuesday 6 January 2004
175     </h3>
176     <p>
177     Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
178 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
179 tdb 1.21 </p>
180     <p>
181     This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
182     support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
183     names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
184     There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
185     various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
186     make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
187     may require on some operating systems.
188     </p>
189     <h2>
190     <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
191     </h2>
192     <p>
193     libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
194     access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
195     It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
196     interfaces which can be used to access key system
197     statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
198     usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
199     network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
200     </p>
201     <p>
202     The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
203     2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
204     DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
205     include as many operating systems as possible.
206     </p>
207     <p>
208     The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
209     first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
210     curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
211     system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
212     interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
213     extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
214     anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
215     Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
216     <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
217     to use statgrab.
218     </p>
219     <h2>
220     <a id="download">Downloading</a>
221     </h2>
222     <p>
223     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
224 tdb 1.29 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
225     All downloads are pgp signed using our
226 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
227     </p>
228     <p>
229     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
230     files contained within the archive. If you're using
231     <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
232     use of the
233     <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
234     devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you.
235 tdb 1.22 </p>
236     <h2>
237 tdb 1.25 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
238     </h2>
239     <ul>
240     <li>
241     <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
242     </li>
243     <li>
244     <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
245     </li>
246     <li>
247     <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
248     </li>
249     </ul>
250     <p>
251     Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
252     that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
253     a binding for another language, please get
254     <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
255     can add a link here.
256     </p>
257     <h2>
258 tdb 1.22 <a id="development">Development</a>
259     </h2>
260     <ul>
261     <li>
262 tdb 1.23 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
263 tdb 1.22 </li>
264     </ul>
265     <p>
266 tdb 1.25 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
267 tdb 1.22 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
268 tdb 1.25 For more information on our CVS setup see our
269 tdb 1.22 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
270 tdb 1.21 </p>
271     <h2>
272     <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
273     </h2>
274     <p>
275     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
276     manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
277     best to start with the overview manual page:
278     </p>
279     <ul>
280     <li>
281     <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
282     </li>
283     </ul>
284     <p>
285     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
286     </p>
287     <ul>
288     <li>
289 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
290     </li>
291     <li>
292     <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
293 tdb 1.21 </li>
294     <li>
295 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
296 tdb 1.21 </li>
297     <li>
298 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
299 tdb 1.21 </li>
300     <li>
301 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
302 tdb 1.21 </li>
303     <li>
304 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
305 tdb 1.21 </li>
306     <li>
307 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
308 tdb 1.21 </li>
309     <li>
310 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
311 tdb 1.21 </li>
312     <li>
313 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
314 tdb 1.21 </li>
315     <li>
316 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
317 tdb 1.21 </li>
318     <li>
319 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
320 tdb 1.21 </li>
321     </ul>
322     <h2>
323     <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
324     </h2>
325     <p>
326     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
327     </p>
328     <p>
329     <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
330     </p>
331     </div>
332 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
333 tdb 1.21 </div>
334 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
335 tdb 1.21 </div>
336     </body>
337 tdb 1.1 </html>