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Revision: 1.36
Committed: Thu Mar 3 10:09:34 2005 UTC (19 years, 8 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.35: +14 -61 lines
Log Message:
Release new version of libstatgrab.

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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 1.33 <a href="#packages">Packages</a>
32     </li>
33     <li>
34 tdb 1.22 <a href="#development">Development</a>
35     </li>
36     <li>
37 tdb 1.21 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
38     </li>
39     <li>
40     <a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a>
41     </li>
42     </ul>
43     </div>
44     <h2>
45     <a id="news">News</a>
46     </h2>
47     <p>
48     To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
49     subscribe to our project over on
50     <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
51     </p>
52     <h3>
53 tdb 1.36 Thursday 3 March 2005
54     </h3>
55     <p>
56     Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
57     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
58     </p>
59     <p>
60     This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
61     settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
62     full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
63     filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
64     ignored. These have all been fixed.
65     </p>
66     <h3>
67 tdb 1.31 Friday 12 November 2004
68     </h3>
69     <p>
70     Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
71     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
72     </p>
73     <p>
74     This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
75     also fixes a few other minor issues.
76     </p>
77     <h3>
78 tdb 1.30 Wednesday 25 August 2004
79     </h3>
80     <p>
81     Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
82     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
83     </p>
84     <p>
85     This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
86     adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
87     the tarball for more details.
88     </p>
89     <h3>
90 tdb 1.28 Tuesday 27 July 2004
91     </h3>
92     <p>
93     Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
94 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
95 tdb 1.28 </p>
96     <p>
97     This release fixes a problem with the shared library
98     version number in the last release.
99     </p>
100     <h3>
101 tdb 1.27 Monday 26 July 2004
102     </h3>
103     <p>
104     Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
105 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
106 tdb 1.27 </p>
107     <p>
108     This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
109     We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
110     NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
111     that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
112     variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
113     suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
114     we've added error reporting functions that store errno
115     values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
116     NEWS file.
117     </p>
118     <h3>
119 tdb 1.24 Thursday 20 May 2004
120     </h3>
121     <p>
122     Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
123 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
124 tdb 1.24 </p>
125     <p>
126     This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
127     of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
128     this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
129     we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
130     for those who still need the old functions we have provided
131     compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
132     </p>
133     <p>
134     The other main change in this release is a new function to
135     provide full details on currently running processes. See the
136     documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
137     this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
138     process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
139     error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
140     see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
141     </p>
142     <p>
143     Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
144     of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
145     bindings - they're now available as their own project called
146     <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
147     </p>
148     <h3>
149 tdb 1.21 Sunday 21 March 2004
150     </h3>
151     <p>
152     pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
153     bindings, has been released. Check out it's
154     <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
155     </p>
156     <h2>
157     <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
158     </h2>
159     <p>
160     libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
161     access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
162     It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
163     interfaces which can be used to access key system
164     statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
165     usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
166     network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
167     </p>
168     <p>
169     The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
170     2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
171 tdb 1.32 DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
172     this to include as many operating systems as possible.
173 tdb 1.21 </p>
174     <p>
175     The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
176     first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
177     curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
178     system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
179     interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
180     extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
181     anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
182     Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
183     <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
184     to use statgrab.
185     </p>
186     <h2>
187     <a id="download">Downloading</a>
188     </h2>
189     <p>
190     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
191 tdb 1.29 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
192     All downloads are pgp signed using our
193 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
194     </p>
195     <p>
196     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
197 tdb 1.33 files contained within the archive.
198 tdb 1.22 </p>
199     <h2>
200 tdb 1.25 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
201     </h2>
202     <ul>
203     <li>
204     <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
205     </li>
206     <li>
207     <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
208     </li>
209     <li>
210     <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
211     </li>
212     </ul>
213     <p>
214     Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
215     that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
216     a binding for another language, please get
217     <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
218     can add a link here.
219 tdb 1.33 </p>
220     <h2>
221     <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
222     </h2>
223     <ul>
224     <li>
225 tdb 1.34 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
226 tdb 1.33 </li>
227     <li>
228     <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
229     </li>
230     <li>
231     <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
232     </li>
233     <li>
234     <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/packages/debian/">Debian (unofficial)</a>
235     </li>
236     <li>
237     <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
238     </li>
239     </ul>
240     <p>
241     These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
242     that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
243     we've missed any out, please let us know.
244     </p>
245     <p>
246     We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
247     to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
248     </p>
249     <p>
250     Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
251     OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
252     it. You can find it
253     <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
254 tdb 1.35 here</a>.
255 tdb 1.25 </p>
256     <h2>
257 tdb 1.22 <a id="development">Development</a>
258     </h2>
259     <ul>
260     <li>
261 tdb 1.23 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
262 tdb 1.22 </li>
263     </ul>
264     <p>
265 tdb 1.25 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
266 tdb 1.22 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
267 tdb 1.25 For more information on our CVS setup see our
268 tdb 1.22 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
269 tdb 1.21 </p>
270     <h2>
271     <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
272     </h2>
273     <p>
274     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
275     manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
276     best to start with the overview manual page:
277     </p>
278     <ul>
279     <li>
280     <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
281     </li>
282     </ul>
283     <p>
284     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
285     </p>
286     <ul>
287     <li>
288 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
289     </li>
290     <li>
291     <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
292 tdb 1.21 </li>
293     <li>
294 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
295 tdb 1.21 </li>
296     <li>
297 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
298 tdb 1.21 </li>
299     <li>
300 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
301 tdb 1.21 </li>
302     <li>
303 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
304 tdb 1.21 </li>
305     <li>
306 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
307 tdb 1.21 </li>
308     <li>
309 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
310 tdb 1.21 </li>
311     <li>
312 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
313 tdb 1.21 </li>
314     <li>
315 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
316 tdb 1.21 </li>
317     <li>
318 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
319 tdb 1.21 </li>
320     </ul>
321     <h2>
322     <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
323     </h2>
324     <p>
325     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
326     </p>
327     <p>
328     <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
329     </p>
330     </div>
331 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
332 tdb 1.21 </div>
333 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
334 tdb 1.21 </div>
335     </body>
336 tdb 1.1 </html>