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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 tdb 1.42 <!--#include virtual="/bannerad.inc" -->
45 tdb 1.21 <h2>
46 tdb 1.37 <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
47     </h2>
48     <p>
49     libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
50     access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
51     It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
52     interfaces which can be used to access key system
53     statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
54     usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
55     network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
56     </p>
57     <p>
58     The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
59     2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
60     DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
61     this to include as many operating systems as possible.
62     </p>
63     <p>
64     The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
65     first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
66     curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
67     system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
68     interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
69     extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
70     anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
71     Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
72     <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
73     to use statgrab.
74     </p>
75     <h2>
76 tdb 1.21 <a id="news">News</a>
77     </h2>
78     <p>
79     To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
80     subscribe to our project over on
81     <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
82     </p>
83     <h3>
84 tdb 1.43 Monday 20 March 2006
85     </h3>
86     <p>
87     Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
88     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
89     </p>
90     <p>
91     This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
92     also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
93     added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
94     easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
95     full details.
96     </p>
97     <h3>
98 tdb 1.40 Sunday 31 July 2005
99     </h3>
100     <p>
101     Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
102     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
103     </p>
104     <p>
105     This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
106     API change. More details have been added to the file
107     system statistics, linux partition detection has been
108     reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
109     Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
110     There are also manual pages for all the tools.
111     </p>
112     <p>
113     The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
114     changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
115     We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
116     the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
117     defined.
118     </p>
119     <h3>
120 tdb 1.38 Tuesday 26 April 2005
121     </h3>
122     <p>
123     Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
124 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
125 tdb 1.38 </p>
126     <p>
127     Thanks to the work of
128     <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
129     libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
130     unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
131     updated.
132     </p>
133     <h3>
134 tdb 1.36 Thursday 3 March 2005
135     </h3>
136     <p>
137     Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
138     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
139     </p>
140     <p>
141     This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
142     settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
143     full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
144     filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
145     ignored. These have all been fixed.
146     </p>
147     <h3>
148 tdb 1.31 Friday 12 November 2004
149     </h3>
150     <p>
151     Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
152     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
153     </p>
154     <p>
155     This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
156     also fixes a few other minor issues.
157     </p>
158     <h3>
159 tdb 1.30 Wednesday 25 August 2004
160     </h3>
161     <p>
162     Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
163     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
164     </p>
165     <p>
166     This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
167     adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
168     the tarball for more details.
169     </p>
170     <h3>
171 tdb 1.28 Tuesday 27 July 2004
172     </h3>
173     <p>
174     Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
175 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
176 tdb 1.28 </p>
177     <p>
178     This release fixes a problem with the shared library
179     version number in the last release.
180     </p>
181     <h3>
182 tdb 1.27 Monday 26 July 2004
183     </h3>
184     <p>
185     Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
186 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
187 tdb 1.27 </p>
188     <p>
189     This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
190     We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
191     NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
192     that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
193     variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
194     suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
195     we've added error reporting functions that store errno
196     values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
197     NEWS file.
198     </p>
199     <h3>
200 tdb 1.24 Thursday 20 May 2004
201     </h3>
202     <p>
203     Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
204 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
205 tdb 1.24 </p>
206     <p>
207     This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
208     of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
209     this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
210     we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
211     for those who still need the old functions we have provided
212     compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
213     </p>
214     <p>
215     The other main change in this release is a new function to
216     provide full details on currently running processes. See the
217     documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
218     this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
219     process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
220     error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
221     see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
222     </p>
223     <p>
224     Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
225     of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
226     bindings - they're now available as their own project called
227     <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
228     </p>
229     <h3>
230 tdb 1.21 Sunday 21 March 2004
231     </h3>
232     <p>
233     pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
234     bindings, has been released. Check out it's
235     <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
236     </p>
237     <h2>
238     <a id="download">Downloading</a>
239     </h2>
240     <p>
241     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
242 tdb 1.29 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
243     All downloads are pgp signed using our
244 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
245     </p>
246     <p>
247     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
248 tdb 1.33 files contained within the archive.
249 tdb 1.22 </p>
250     <h2>
251 tdb 1.25 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
252     </h2>
253     <ul>
254     <li>
255     <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
256     </li>
257     <li>
258     <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
259     </li>
260     <li>
261     <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
262     </li>
263     </ul>
264     <p>
265     Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
266     that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
267     a binding for another language, please get
268 tdb 1.41 <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
269 tdb 1.25 can add a link here.
270 tdb 1.33 </p>
271     <h2>
272     <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
273     </h2>
274     <ul>
275     <li>
276 tdb 1.34 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
277 tdb 1.33 </li>
278     <li>
279     <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
280     </li>
281     <li>
282     <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
283     </li>
284     <li>
285 tdb 1.44 <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
286     </li>
287     <li>
288 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
289 tdb 1.33 </li>
290     <li>
291     <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
292     </li>
293     </ul>
294     <p>
295     These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
296     that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
297     we've missed any out, please let us know.
298     </p>
299     <p>
300     We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
301     to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
302     </p>
303     <p>
304     Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
305     OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
306     it. You can find it
307     <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
308 tdb 1.35 here</a>.
309 tdb 1.25 </p>
310     <h2>
311 tdb 1.22 <a id="development">Development</a>
312     </h2>
313     <ul>
314     <li>
315 tdb 1.23 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
316 tdb 1.22 </li>
317     </ul>
318     <p>
319 tdb 1.25 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
320 tdb 1.22 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
321 tdb 1.25 For more information on our CVS setup see our
322 tdb 1.22 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
323 tdb 1.21 </p>
324     <h2>
325     <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
326     </h2>
327     <p>
328     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
329 tdb 1.43 manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
330     manual pages for the command line tools:
331     </p>
332     <ul>
333     <li>
334     <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
335     </li>
336     <li>
337     <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
338     </li>
339     <li>
340     <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
341     </li>
342     <li>
343     <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
344     </li>
345     </ul>
346     <p>
347     We also have an overview page for the library:
348 tdb 1.21 </p>
349     <ul>
350     <li>
351 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
352 tdb 1.21 </li>
353     </ul>
354     <p>
355     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
356     </p>
357     <ul>
358     <li>
359 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
360 tdb 1.24 </li>
361     <li>
362 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
363 tdb 1.21 </li>
364     <li>
365 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
366 tdb 1.21 </li>
367     <li>
368 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
369 tdb 1.21 </li>
370     <li>
371 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
372 tdb 1.21 </li>
373     <li>
374 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
375 tdb 1.21 </li>
376     <li>
377 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
378 tdb 1.21 </li>
379     <li>
380 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
381 tdb 1.21 </li>
382     <li>
383 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
384 tdb 1.21 </li>
385     <li>
386 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
387 tdb 1.21 </li>
388     <li>
389 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
390 tdb 1.21 </li>
391     </ul>
392     <h2>
393     <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
394     </h2>
395     <p>
396     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
397     </p>
398     <p>
399     <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
400     </p>
401     </div>
402 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
403 tdb 1.21 </div>
404 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
405 tdb 1.21 </div>
406     </body>
407 tdb 1.1 </html>