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Revision: 1.50
Committed: Tue Mar 18 00:22:47 2008 UTC (16 years, 1 month ago) by tdb
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Release libstatgrab 0.16.

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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 1.50 Monday 17 March 2008
85     </h3>
86     <p>
87     Version 0.16 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 fixes some minor build problems on Solaris
92     with Sun's compiler, and on the Debian "armel" port. Also
93     a minor fix to statgrab-make-mrtg-config on machines with
94     no swap, and added support for FreeBSD 8.
95     </p>
96     <h3>
97 tdb 1.48 Saturday 14 July 2007
98     </h3>
99     <p>
100     Version 0.15 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 regression introduced on OpenBSD in
105     the last release - memory statistics were reported
106     incorrectly. Some other minor changes have been made, see
107     the NEWS file for more information.
108     </p>
109     <h3>
110 tdb 1.45 Monday 8 January 2007
111     </h3>
112     <p>
113     Version 0.14 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
114     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
115     </p>
116     <p>
117     This release contains mainly bugfixes - see the NEWS file
118 tdb 1.46 in the distribution for a full list. It also brings a new
119     feature in saidar: colour support, which can be activated
120     with the -c runtime flag.
121 tdb 1.45 </p>
122     <h3>
123 tdb 1.43 Monday 20 March 2006
124     </h3>
125     <p>
126     Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
127     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
128     </p>
129     <p>
130     This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
131     also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
132     added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
133     easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
134     full details.
135     </p>
136     <h3>
137 tdb 1.40 Sunday 31 July 2005
138     </h3>
139     <p>
140     Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
141     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
142     </p>
143     <p>
144     This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
145     API change. More details have been added to the file
146     system statistics, linux partition detection has been
147     reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
148     Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
149     There are also manual pages for all the tools.
150     </p>
151     <p>
152     The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
153     changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
154     We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
155     the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
156     defined.
157     </p>
158     <h3>
159 tdb 1.38 Tuesday 26 April 2005
160     </h3>
161     <p>
162     Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
163 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
164 tdb 1.38 </p>
165     <p>
166     Thanks to the work of
167     <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
168     libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
169     unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
170     updated.
171     </p>
172     <h3>
173 tdb 1.36 Thursday 3 March 2005
174     </h3>
175     <p>
176     Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
177     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
178     </p>
179     <p>
180     This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
181     settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
182     full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
183     filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
184     ignored. These have all been fixed.
185     </p>
186     <h3>
187 tdb 1.31 Friday 12 November 2004
188     </h3>
189     <p>
190     Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
191     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
192     </p>
193     <p>
194     This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
195     also fixes a few other minor issues.
196     </p>
197     <h3>
198 tdb 1.30 Wednesday 25 August 2004
199     </h3>
200     <p>
201     Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
202     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
203     </p>
204     <p>
205     This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
206     adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
207     the tarball for more details.
208     </p>
209     <h3>
210 tdb 1.28 Tuesday 27 July 2004
211     </h3>
212     <p>
213     Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
214 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
215 tdb 1.28 </p>
216     <p>
217     This release fixes a problem with the shared library
218     version number in the last release.
219     </p>
220     <h3>
221 tdb 1.27 Monday 26 July 2004
222     </h3>
223     <p>
224     Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
225 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
226 tdb 1.27 </p>
227     <p>
228     This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
229     We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
230     NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
231     that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
232     variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
233     suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
234     we've added error reporting functions that store errno
235     values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
236     NEWS file.
237     </p>
238     <h3>
239 tdb 1.24 Thursday 20 May 2004
240     </h3>
241     <p>
242     Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
243 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
244 tdb 1.24 </p>
245     <p>
246     This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
247     of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
248     this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
249     we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
250     for those who still need the old functions we have provided
251     compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
252     </p>
253     <p>
254     The other main change in this release is a new function to
255     provide full details on currently running processes. See the
256     documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
257     this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
258     process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
259     error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
260     see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
261     </p>
262     <p>
263     Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
264     of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
265     bindings - they're now available as their own project called
266     <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
267     </p>
268     <h3>
269 tdb 1.21 Sunday 21 March 2004
270     </h3>
271     <p>
272     pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
273 tdb 1.45 bindings, has been released. Check out its
274 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
275     </p>
276     <h2>
277     <a id="download">Downloading</a>
278     </h2>
279     <p>
280     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
281 tdb 1.29 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
282     All downloads are pgp signed using our
283 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
284     </p>
285     <p>
286     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
287 tdb 1.33 files contained within the archive.
288 tdb 1.22 </p>
289     <h2>
290 tdb 1.25 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
291     </h2>
292     <ul>
293     <li>
294     <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
295     </li>
296     <li>
297     <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
298     </li>
299     <li>
300     <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
301     </li>
302     </ul>
303     <p>
304     Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
305     that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
306     a binding for another language, please get
307 tdb 1.41 <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
308 tdb 1.25 can add a link here.
309 tdb 1.33 </p>
310     <h2>
311     <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
312     </h2>
313     <ul>
314     <li>
315 tdb 1.34 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
316 tdb 1.33 </li>
317     <li>
318 tdb 1.45 <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
319 tdb 1.33 </li>
320     <li>
321     <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
322     </li>
323     <li>
324 tdb 1.44 <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
325     </li>
326     <li>
327 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
328 tdb 1.33 </li>
329     <li>
330     <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
331     </li>
332 tdb 1.47 <li>
333     <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/anagappan/">RPMs for various Linux distributions</a>
334     </li>
335 tdb 1.49 <li>
336     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/libstatgrab/">OpenBSD</a>
337     </li>
338 tdb 1.33 </ul>
339     <p>
340     These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
341     that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
342     we've missed any out, please let us know.
343     </p>
344     <p>
345     We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
346     to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
347     </p>
348 tdb 1.25 <h2>
349 tdb 1.22 <a id="development">Development</a>
350     </h2>
351     <ul>
352     <li>
353 tdb 1.23 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
354 tdb 1.22 </li>
355     </ul>
356     <p>
357 tdb 1.25 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
358 tdb 1.22 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
359 tdb 1.25 For more information on our CVS setup see our
360 tdb 1.22 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
361 tdb 1.21 </p>
362     <h2>
363     <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
364     </h2>
365     <p>
366     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
367 tdb 1.43 manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
368     manual pages for the command line tools:
369     </p>
370     <ul>
371     <li>
372     <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
373     </li>
374     <li>
375     <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
376     </li>
377     <li>
378     <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
379     </li>
380     <li>
381     <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
382     </li>
383     </ul>
384     <p>
385     We also have an overview page for the library:
386 tdb 1.21 </p>
387     <ul>
388     <li>
389 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
390 tdb 1.21 </li>
391     </ul>
392     <p>
393     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
394     </p>
395     <ul>
396     <li>
397 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
398 tdb 1.24 </li>
399     <li>
400 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
401 tdb 1.21 </li>
402     <li>
403 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
404 tdb 1.21 </li>
405     <li>
406 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
407 tdb 1.21 </li>
408     <li>
409 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
410 tdb 1.21 </li>
411     <li>
412 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
413 tdb 1.21 </li>
414     <li>
415 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
416 tdb 1.21 </li>
417     <li>
418 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
419 tdb 1.21 </li>
420     <li>
421 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
422 tdb 1.21 </li>
423     <li>
424 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
425 tdb 1.21 </li>
426     <li>
427 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
428 tdb 1.21 </li>
429     </ul>
430     <h2>
431     <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
432     </h2>
433     <p>
434     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
435     </p>
436     <p>
437     <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
438     </p>
439     </div>
440 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
441 tdb 1.21 </div>
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443 tdb 1.21 </div>
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