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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 1.51 Friday 30 May 2008
85     </h3>
86     <p>
87     Dag Odenhall got in touch today to let us know he's written
88     <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a>
89     for libstatgrab. Thanks Dag!
90     </p>
91     <h3>
92 tdb 1.50 Monday 17 March 2008
93     </h3>
94     <p>
95     Version 0.16 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
96     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
97     </p>
98     <p>
99     This release fixes some minor build problems on Solaris
100     with Sun's compiler, and on the Debian "armel" port. Also
101     a minor fix to statgrab-make-mrtg-config on machines with
102     no swap, and added support for FreeBSD 8.
103     </p>
104     <h3>
105 tdb 1.48 Saturday 14 July 2007
106     </h3>
107     <p>
108     Version 0.15 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
109     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
110     </p>
111     <p>
112     This release fixes a regression introduced on OpenBSD in
113     the last release - memory statistics were reported
114     incorrectly. Some other minor changes have been made, see
115     the NEWS file for more information.
116     </p>
117     <h3>
118 tdb 1.45 Monday 8 January 2007
119     </h3>
120     <p>
121     Version 0.14 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
122     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
123     </p>
124     <p>
125     This release contains mainly bugfixes - see the NEWS file
126 tdb 1.46 in the distribution for a full list. It also brings a new
127     feature in saidar: colour support, which can be activated
128     with the -c runtime flag.
129 tdb 1.45 </p>
130     <h3>
131 tdb 1.43 Monday 20 March 2006
132     </h3>
133     <p>
134     Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
135     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
136     </p>
137     <p>
138     This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
139     also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
140     added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
141     easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
142     full details.
143     </p>
144     <h3>
145 tdb 1.40 Sunday 31 July 2005
146     </h3>
147     <p>
148     Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
149     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
150     </p>
151     <p>
152     This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
153     API change. More details have been added to the file
154     system statistics, linux partition detection has been
155     reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
156     Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
157     There are also manual pages for all the tools.
158     </p>
159     <p>
160     The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
161     changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
162     We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
163     the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
164     defined.
165     </p>
166     <h3>
167 tdb 1.38 Tuesday 26 April 2005
168     </h3>
169     <p>
170     Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
171 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
172 tdb 1.38 </p>
173     <p>
174     Thanks to the work of
175     <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
176     libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
177     unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
178     updated.
179     </p>
180     <h3>
181 tdb 1.36 Thursday 3 March 2005
182     </h3>
183     <p>
184     Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
185     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
186     </p>
187     <p>
188     This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
189     settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
190     full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
191     filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
192     ignored. These have all been fixed.
193     </p>
194     <h3>
195 tdb 1.31 Friday 12 November 2004
196     </h3>
197     <p>
198     Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
199     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
200     </p>
201     <p>
202     This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
203     also fixes a few other minor issues.
204     </p>
205     <h3>
206 tdb 1.30 Wednesday 25 August 2004
207     </h3>
208     <p>
209     Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
210     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
211     </p>
212     <p>
213     This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
214     adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
215     the tarball for more details.
216     </p>
217     <h3>
218 tdb 1.28 Tuesday 27 July 2004
219     </h3>
220     <p>
221     Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
222 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
223 tdb 1.28 </p>
224     <p>
225     This release fixes a problem with the shared library
226     version number in the last release.
227     </p>
228     <h3>
229 tdb 1.27 Monday 26 July 2004
230     </h3>
231     <p>
232     Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
233 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
234 tdb 1.27 </p>
235     <p>
236     This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
237     We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
238     NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
239     that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
240     variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
241     suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
242     we've added error reporting functions that store errno
243     values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
244     NEWS file.
245     </p>
246     <h3>
247 tdb 1.24 Thursday 20 May 2004
248     </h3>
249     <p>
250     Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
251 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
252 tdb 1.24 </p>
253     <p>
254     This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
255     of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
256     this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
257     we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
258     for those who still need the old functions we have provided
259     compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
260     </p>
261     <p>
262     The other main change in this release is a new function to
263     provide full details on currently running processes. See the
264     documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
265     this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
266     process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
267     error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
268     see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
269     </p>
270     <p>
271     Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
272     of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
273     bindings - they're now available as their own project called
274     <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
275     </p>
276     <h3>
277 tdb 1.21 Sunday 21 March 2004
278     </h3>
279     <p>
280     pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
281 tdb 1.45 bindings, has been released. Check out its
282 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
283     </p>
284     <h2>
285     <a id="download">Downloading</a>
286     </h2>
287     <p>
288     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
289 tdb 1.29 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
290     All downloads are pgp signed using our
291 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
292     </p>
293     <p>
294     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
295 tdb 1.33 files contained within the archive.
296 tdb 1.22 </p>
297     <h2>
298 tdb 1.25 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
299     </h2>
300     <ul>
301     <li>
302     <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
303     </li>
304     <li>
305 tdb 1.51 <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP</a>
306     </li>
307     <li>
308     <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl</a>
309 tdb 1.25 </li>
310     <li>
311 tdb 1.51 <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby</a>
312 tdb 1.25 </li>
313     </ul>
314     <p>
315     Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
316     that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
317     a binding for another language, please get
318 tdb 1.41 <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
319 tdb 1.25 can add a link here.
320 tdb 1.33 </p>
321     <h2>
322     <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
323     </h2>
324     <ul>
325     <li>
326 tdb 1.34 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
327 tdb 1.33 </li>
328     <li>
329 tdb 1.45 <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
330 tdb 1.33 </li>
331     <li>
332     <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
333     </li>
334     <li>
335 tdb 1.44 <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
336     </li>
337     <li>
338 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
339 tdb 1.33 </li>
340     <li>
341     <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
342     </li>
343 tdb 1.47 <li>
344     <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/anagappan/">RPMs for various Linux distributions</a>
345     </li>
346 tdb 1.49 <li>
347     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/libstatgrab/">OpenBSD</a>
348     </li>
349 tdb 1.33 </ul>
350     <p>
351     These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
352     that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
353     we've missed any out, please let us know.
354     </p>
355     <p>
356     We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
357     to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
358     </p>
359 tdb 1.25 <h2>
360 tdb 1.22 <a id="development">Development</a>
361     </h2>
362     <ul>
363     <li>
364 tdb 1.23 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
365 tdb 1.22 </li>
366     </ul>
367     <p>
368 tdb 1.25 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
369 tdb 1.22 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
370 tdb 1.25 For more information on our CVS setup see our
371 tdb 1.22 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
372 tdb 1.21 </p>
373     <h2>
374     <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
375     </h2>
376     <p>
377     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
378 tdb 1.43 manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
379     manual pages for the command line tools:
380     </p>
381     <ul>
382     <li>
383     <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
384     </li>
385     <li>
386     <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
387     </li>
388     <li>
389     <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
390     </li>
391     <li>
392     <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
393     </li>
394     </ul>
395     <p>
396     We also have an overview page for the library:
397 tdb 1.21 </p>
398     <ul>
399     <li>
400 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
401 tdb 1.21 </li>
402     </ul>
403     <p>
404     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
405     </p>
406     <ul>
407     <li>
408 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
409 tdb 1.24 </li>
410     <li>
411 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
412 tdb 1.21 </li>
413     <li>
414 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
415 tdb 1.21 </li>
416     <li>
417 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
418 tdb 1.21 </li>
419     <li>
420 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
421 tdb 1.21 </li>
422     <li>
423 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
424 tdb 1.21 </li>
425     <li>
426 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
427 tdb 1.21 </li>
428     <li>
429 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
430 tdb 1.21 </li>
431     <li>
432 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
433 tdb 1.21 </li>
434     <li>
435 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
436 tdb 1.21 </li>
437     <li>
438 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
439 tdb 1.21 </li>
440     </ul>
441     <h2>
442     <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
443     </h2>
444     <p>
445     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
446     </p>
447     <p>
448     <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
449     </p>
450     </div>
451 tdb 1.19 <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
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