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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 tdb 1.37 <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
20 tdb 1.21 </li>
21     <li>
22 tdb 1.37 <a href="#news">News</a>
23 tdb 1.21 </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 tdb 1.37 <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
46     </h2>
47     <p>
48     libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
49     access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
50     It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
51     interfaces which can be used to access key system
52     statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
53     usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
54     network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
55     </p>
56     <p>
57     The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
58     2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
59     DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
60     this to include as many operating systems as possible.
61     </p>
62     <p>
63     The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
64     first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
65     curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
66     system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
67     interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
68     extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
69     anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
70     Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
71     <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
72     to use statgrab.
73     </p>
74     <h2>
75 tdb 1.21 <a id="news">News</a>
76     </h2>
77     <p>
78     To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
79     subscribe to our project over on
80     <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
81     </p>
82     <h3>
83 tdb 1.38 Tuesday 26 April 2005
84     </h3>
85     <p>
86     Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
87 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
88 tdb 1.38 </p>
89     <p>
90     Thanks to the work of
91     <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
92     libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
93     unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
94     updated.
95     </p>
96     <h3>
97 tdb 1.36 Thursday 3 March 2005
98     </h3>
99     <p>
100     Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
101     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
102     </p>
103     <p>
104     This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
105     settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
106     full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
107     filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
108     ignored. These have all been fixed.
109     </p>
110     <h3>
111 tdb 1.31 Friday 12 November 2004
112     </h3>
113     <p>
114     Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
115     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
116     </p>
117     <p>
118     This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
119     also fixes a few other minor issues.
120     </p>
121     <h3>
122 tdb 1.30 Wednesday 25 August 2004
123     </h3>
124     <p>
125     Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
126     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
127     </p>
128     <p>
129     This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
130     adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
131     the tarball for more details.
132     </p>
133     <h3>
134 tdb 1.28 Tuesday 27 July 2004
135     </h3>
136     <p>
137     Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
138 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
139 tdb 1.28 </p>
140     <p>
141     This release fixes a problem with the shared library
142     version number in the last release.
143     </p>
144     <h3>
145 tdb 1.27 Monday 26 July 2004
146     </h3>
147     <p>
148     Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
149 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
150 tdb 1.27 </p>
151     <p>
152     This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
153     We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
154     NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
155     that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
156     variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
157     suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
158     we've added error reporting functions that store errno
159     values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
160     NEWS file.
161     </p>
162     <h3>
163 tdb 1.24 Thursday 20 May 2004
164     </h3>
165     <p>
166     Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
167 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
168 tdb 1.24 </p>
169     <p>
170     This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
171     of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
172     this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
173     we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
174     for those who still need the old functions we have provided
175     compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
176     </p>
177     <p>
178     The other main change in this release is a new function to
179     provide full details on currently running processes. See the
180     documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
181     this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
182     process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
183     error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
184     see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
185     </p>
186     <p>
187     Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
188     of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
189     bindings - they're now available as their own project called
190     <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
191     </p>
192     <h3>
193 tdb 1.21 Sunday 21 March 2004
194     </h3>
195     <p>
196     pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
197     bindings, has been released. Check out it's
198     <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
199     </p>
200     <h2>
201     <a id="download">Downloading</a>
202     </h2>
203     <p>
204     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
205 tdb 1.29 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
206     All downloads are pgp signed using our
207 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
208     </p>
209     <p>
210     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
211 tdb 1.33 files contained within the archive.
212 tdb 1.22 </p>
213     <h2>
214 tdb 1.25 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
215     </h2>
216     <ul>
217     <li>
218     <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
219     </li>
220     <li>
221     <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
222     </li>
223     <li>
224     <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
225     </li>
226     </ul>
227     <p>
228     Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
229     that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
230     a binding for another language, please get
231     <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
232     can add a link here.
233 tdb 1.33 </p>
234     <h2>
235     <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
236     </h2>
237     <ul>
238     <li>
239 tdb 1.34 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
240 tdb 1.33 </li>
241     <li>
242     <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
243     </li>
244     <li>
245     <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
246     </li>
247     <li>
248 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
249 tdb 1.33 </li>
250     <li>
251     <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
252     </li>
253     </ul>
254     <p>
255     These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
256     that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
257     we've missed any out, please let us know.
258     </p>
259     <p>
260     We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
261     to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
262     </p>
263     <p>
264     Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
265     OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
266     it. You can find it
267     <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
268 tdb 1.35 here</a>.
269 tdb 1.25 </p>
270     <h2>
271 tdb 1.22 <a id="development">Development</a>
272     </h2>
273     <ul>
274     <li>
275 tdb 1.23 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
276 tdb 1.22 </li>
277     </ul>
278     <p>
279 tdb 1.25 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
280 tdb 1.22 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
281 tdb 1.25 For more information on our CVS setup see our
282 tdb 1.22 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
283 tdb 1.21 </p>
284     <h2>
285     <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
286     </h2>
287     <p>
288     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
289     manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
290     best to start with the overview manual page:
291     </p>
292     <ul>
293     <li>
294     <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
295     </li>
296     </ul>
297     <p>
298     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
299     </p>
300     <ul>
301     <li>
302 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
303     </li>
304     <li>
305     <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
306 tdb 1.21 </li>
307     <li>
308 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
309 tdb 1.21 </li>
310     <li>
311 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
312 tdb 1.21 </li>
313     <li>
314 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
315 tdb 1.21 </li>
316     <li>
317 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
318 tdb 1.21 </li>
319     <li>
320 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
321 tdb 1.21 </li>
322     <li>
323 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
324 tdb 1.21 </li>
325     <li>
326 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
327 tdb 1.21 </li>
328     <li>
329 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
330 tdb 1.21 </li>
331     <li>
332 tdb 1.24 <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
333 tdb 1.21 </li>
334     </ul>
335     <h2>
336     <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
337     </h2>
338     <p>
339     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
340     </p>
341     <p>
342     <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
343     </p>
344     </div>
345 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
346 tdb 1.21 </div>
347 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
348 tdb 1.21 </div>
349     </body>
350 tdb 1.1 </html>