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2 tdb 1.21 <head>
3     <title>
4     i-scream libstatgrab homepage
5     </title>
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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 1.52 Sunday 21 February 2010
84     </h3>
85     <p>
86     Version 0.17 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
87     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
88     </p>
89     <p>
90     This release adds support for FreeBSD 9 and other systems
91     using utmpx. Also on FreeBSD it fixes an issue with large
92     quantities of memory and adds support for dynamically
93     getting a list of supported file systems. On Solaris ZFS
94     file systems will now be detected. And finally on Linux CPU
95     iowait information will be given where available.
96     </p>
97     <h3>
98 tdb 1.51 Friday 30 May 2008
99     </h3>
100     <p>
101     Dag Odenhall got in touch today to let us know he's written
102     <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a>
103     for libstatgrab. Thanks Dag!
104     </p>
105     <h3>
106 tdb 1.50 Monday 17 March 2008
107     </h3>
108     <p>
109     Version 0.16 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
110     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
111     </p>
112     <p>
113     This release fixes some minor build problems on Solaris
114     with Sun's compiler, and on the Debian "armel" port. Also
115     a minor fix to statgrab-make-mrtg-config on machines with
116     no swap, and added support for FreeBSD 8.
117     </p>
118     <h3>
119 tdb 1.48 Saturday 14 July 2007
120     </h3>
121     <p>
122     Version 0.15 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
123     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
124     </p>
125     <p>
126     This release fixes a regression introduced on OpenBSD in
127     the last release - memory statistics were reported
128     incorrectly. Some other minor changes have been made, see
129     the NEWS file for more information.
130     </p>
131     <h3>
132 tdb 1.45 Monday 8 January 2007
133     </h3>
134     <p>
135     Version 0.14 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
136     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
137     </p>
138     <p>
139     This release contains mainly bugfixes - see the NEWS file
140 tdb 1.46 in the distribution for a full list. It also brings a new
141     feature in saidar: colour support, which can be activated
142     with the -c runtime flag.
143 tdb 1.45 </p>
144     <h3>
145 tdb 1.43 Monday 20 March 2006
146     </h3>
147     <p>
148     Version 0.13 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 mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
153     also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
154     added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
155     easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
156     full details.
157     </p>
158     <h3>
159 tdb 1.40 Sunday 31 July 2005
160     </h3>
161     <p>
162     Version 0.12 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 has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
167     API change. More details have been added to the file
168     system statistics, linux partition detection has been
169     reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
170     Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
171     There are also manual pages for all the tools.
172     </p>
173     <p>
174     The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
175     changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
176     We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
177     the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
178     defined.
179     </p>
180     <h3>
181 tdb 1.38 Tuesday 26 April 2005
182     </h3>
183     <p>
184     Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
185 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
186 tdb 1.38 </p>
187     <p>
188     Thanks to the work of
189     <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
190     libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
191     unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
192     updated.
193     </p>
194     <h3>
195 tdb 1.36 Thursday 3 March 2005
196     </h3>
197     <p>
198     Version 0.11.1 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 fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
203     settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
204     full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
205     filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
206     ignored. These have all been fixed.
207     </p>
208     <h3>
209 tdb 1.31 Friday 12 November 2004
210     </h3>
211     <p>
212     Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
213     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
214     </p>
215     <p>
216     This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
217     also fixes a few other minor issues.
218     </p>
219     <h3>
220 tdb 1.30 Wednesday 25 August 2004
221     </h3>
222     <p>
223     Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
224     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
225     </p>
226     <p>
227     This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
228     adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
229     the tarball for more details.
230     </p>
231     <h3>
232 tdb 1.28 Tuesday 27 July 2004
233     </h3>
234     <p>
235     Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
236 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
237 tdb 1.28 </p>
238     <p>
239     This release fixes a problem with the shared library
240     version number in the last release.
241     </p>
242     <h3>
243 tdb 1.27 Monday 26 July 2004
244     </h3>
245     <p>
246     Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
247 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
248 tdb 1.27 </p>
249     <p>
250     This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
251     We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
252     NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
253     that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
254     variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
255     suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
256     we've added error reporting functions that store errno
257     values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
258     NEWS file.
259     </p>
260     <h3>
261 tdb 1.24 Thursday 20 May 2004
262     </h3>
263     <p>
264     Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
265 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
266 tdb 1.24 </p>
267     <p>
268     This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
269     of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
270     this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
271     we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
272     for those who still need the old functions we have provided
273     compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
274     </p>
275     <p>
276     The other main change in this release is a new function to
277     provide full details on currently running processes. See the
278     documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
279     this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
280     process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
281     error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
282     see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
283     </p>
284     <p>
285     Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
286     of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
287     bindings - they're now available as their own project called
288     <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
289     </p>
290     <h3>
291 tdb 1.21 Sunday 21 March 2004
292     </h3>
293     <p>
294     pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
295 tdb 1.45 bindings, has been released. Check out its
296 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
297     </p>
298     <h2>
299     <a id="download">Downloading</a>
300     </h2>
301     <p>
302     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
303 tdb 1.29 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
304     All downloads are pgp signed using our
305 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
306     </p>
307     <p>
308     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
309 tdb 1.33 files contained within the archive.
310 tdb 1.22 </p>
311     <h2>
312 tdb 1.25 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
313     </h2>
314     <ul>
315     <li>
316     <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
317     </li>
318     <li>
319 tdb 1.51 <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP</a>
320     </li>
321     <li>
322     <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl</a>
323 tdb 1.25 </li>
324     <li>
325 tdb 1.51 <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby</a>
326 tdb 1.25 </li>
327     </ul>
328     <p>
329     Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
330     that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
331     a binding for another language, please get
332 tdb 1.41 <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
333 tdb 1.25 can add a link here.
334 tdb 1.33 </p>
335     <h2>
336     <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
337     </h2>
338     <ul>
339     <li>
340 tdb 1.34 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
341 tdb 1.33 </li>
342     <li>
343 tdb 1.45 <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
344 tdb 1.33 </li>
345     <li>
346     <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
347     </li>
348     <li>
349 tdb 1.44 <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
350     </li>
351     <li>
352 tdb 1.53 <a href="http://www.opencsw.org/packages/libstatgrab/">Solaris (OpenCSW)</a>
353     </li>
354     <li>
355 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
356 tdb 1.33 </li>
357     <li>
358     <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
359     </li>
360 tdb 1.47 <li>
361     <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/anagappan/">RPMs for various Linux distributions</a>
362     </li>
363 tdb 1.49 <li>
364     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/libstatgrab/">OpenBSD</a>
365     </li>
366 tdb 1.33 </ul>
367     <p>
368     These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
369     that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
370     we've missed any out, please let us know.
371     </p>
372     <p>
373     We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
374     to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
375     </p>
376 tdb 1.25 <h2>
377 tdb 1.22 <a id="development">Development</a>
378     </h2>
379     <ul>
380     <li>
381 tdb 1.23 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
382 tdb 1.22 </li>
383     </ul>
384     <p>
385 tdb 1.25 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
386 tdb 1.22 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
387 tdb 1.25 For more information on our CVS setup see our
388 tdb 1.22 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
389 tdb 1.21 </p>
390     <h2>
391     <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
392     </h2>
393     <p>
394     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
395 tdb 1.43 manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
396     manual pages for the command line tools:
397     </p>
398     <ul>
399     <li>
400     <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
401     </li>
402     <li>
403     <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
404     </li>
405     <li>
406     <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
407     </li>
408     <li>
409     <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
410     </li>
411     </ul>
412     <p>
413     We also have an overview page for the library:
414 tdb 1.21 </p>
415     <ul>
416     <li>
417 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
418 tdb 1.21 </li>
419     </ul>
420     <p>
421     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
422     </p>
423     <ul>
424     <li>
425 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
426 tdb 1.24 </li>
427     <li>
428 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
429 tdb 1.21 </li>
430     <li>
431 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
432 tdb 1.21 </li>
433     <li>
434 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
435 tdb 1.21 </li>
436     <li>
437 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
438 tdb 1.21 </li>
439     <li>
440 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
441 tdb 1.21 </li>
442     <li>
443 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
444 tdb 1.21 </li>
445     <li>
446 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
447 tdb 1.21 </li>
448     <li>
449 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
450 tdb 1.21 </li>
451     <li>
452 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
453 tdb 1.21 </li>
454     <li>
455 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
456 tdb 1.21 </li>
457     </ul>
458     <h2>
459     <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
460     </h2>
461     <p>
462     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
463     </p>
464     <p>
465     <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
466     </p>
467     </div>
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