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Revision: 1.55
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2 tdb 1.21 <head>
3     <title>
4 tdb 1.55 libstatgrab homepage
5 tdb 1.21 </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 tdb 1.55 libstatgrab homepage
15 tdb 1.21 </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     <h3>
78 tdb 1.52 Sunday 21 February 2010
79     </h3>
80     <p>
81     Version 0.17 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
82     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
83     </p>
84     <p>
85     This release adds support for FreeBSD 9 and other systems
86     using utmpx. Also on FreeBSD it fixes an issue with large
87     quantities of memory and adds support for dynamically
88     getting a list of supported file systems. On Solaris ZFS
89     file systems will now be detected. And finally on Linux CPU
90     iowait information will be given where available.
91     </p>
92     <h3>
93 tdb 1.51 Friday 30 May 2008
94     </h3>
95     <p>
96     Dag Odenhall got in touch today to let us know he's written
97     <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a>
98     for libstatgrab. Thanks Dag!
99     </p>
100     <h3>
101 tdb 1.50 Monday 17 March 2008
102     </h3>
103     <p>
104     Version 0.16 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
105     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
106     </p>
107     <p>
108     This release fixes some minor build problems on Solaris
109     with Sun's compiler, and on the Debian "armel" port. Also
110     a minor fix to statgrab-make-mrtg-config on machines with
111     no swap, and added support for FreeBSD 8.
112     </p>
113     <h3>
114 tdb 1.48 Saturday 14 July 2007
115     </h3>
116     <p>
117     Version 0.15 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
118     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
119     </p>
120     <p>
121     This release fixes a regression introduced on OpenBSD in
122     the last release - memory statistics were reported
123     incorrectly. Some other minor changes have been made, see
124     the NEWS file for more information.
125     </p>
126     <h3>
127 tdb 1.45 Monday 8 January 2007
128     </h3>
129     <p>
130     Version 0.14 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
131     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
132     </p>
133     <p>
134     This release contains mainly bugfixes - see the NEWS file
135 tdb 1.46 in the distribution for a full list. It also brings a new
136     feature in saidar: colour support, which can be activated
137     with the -c runtime flag.
138 tdb 1.45 </p>
139     <h3>
140 tdb 1.43 Monday 20 March 2006
141     </h3>
142     <p>
143     Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
144     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
145     </p>
146     <p>
147     This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
148     also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
149     added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
150     easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
151     full details.
152     </p>
153     <h3>
154 tdb 1.40 Sunday 31 July 2005
155     </h3>
156     <p>
157     Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
158     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
159     </p>
160     <p>
161     This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
162     API change. More details have been added to the file
163     system statistics, linux partition detection has been
164     reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
165     Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
166     There are also manual pages for all the tools.
167     </p>
168     <p>
169     The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
170     changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
171     We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
172     the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
173     defined.
174     </p>
175     <h3>
176 tdb 1.38 Tuesday 26 April 2005
177     </h3>
178     <p>
179     Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
180 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
181 tdb 1.38 </p>
182     <p>
183     Thanks to the work of
184     <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
185     libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
186     unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
187     updated.
188     </p>
189     <h3>
190 tdb 1.36 Thursday 3 March 2005
191     </h3>
192     <p>
193     Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
194     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
195     </p>
196     <p>
197     This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
198     settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
199     full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
200     filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
201     ignored. These have all been fixed.
202     </p>
203     <h3>
204 tdb 1.31 Friday 12 November 2004
205     </h3>
206     <p>
207     Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
208     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
209     </p>
210     <p>
211     This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
212     also fixes a few other minor issues.
213     </p>
214     <h3>
215 tdb 1.30 Wednesday 25 August 2004
216     </h3>
217     <p>
218     Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
219     Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
220     </p>
221     <p>
222     This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
223     adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
224     the tarball for more details.
225     </p>
226     <h3>
227 tdb 1.28 Tuesday 27 July 2004
228     </h3>
229     <p>
230     Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
231 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
232 tdb 1.28 </p>
233     <p>
234     This release fixes a problem with the shared library
235     version number in the last release.
236     </p>
237     <h3>
238 tdb 1.27 Monday 26 July 2004
239     </h3>
240     <p>
241     Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
242 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
243 tdb 1.27 </p>
244     <p>
245     This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
246     We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
247     NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
248     that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
249     variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
250     suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
251     we've added error reporting functions that store errno
252     values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
253     NEWS file.
254     </p>
255     <h3>
256 tdb 1.24 Thursday 20 May 2004
257     </h3>
258     <p>
259     Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
260 tdb 1.29 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
261 tdb 1.24 </p>
262     <p>
263     This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
264     of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
265     this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
266     we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
267     for those who still need the old functions we have provided
268     compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
269     </p>
270     <p>
271     The other main change in this release is a new function to
272     provide full details on currently running processes. See the
273     documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
274     this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
275     process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
276     error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
277     see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
278     </p>
279     <p>
280     Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
281     of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
282     bindings - they're now available as their own project called
283     <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
284     </p>
285     <h3>
286 tdb 1.21 Sunday 21 March 2004
287     </h3>
288     <p>
289     pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
290 tdb 1.45 bindings, has been released. Check out its
291 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
292     </p>
293     <h2>
294     <a id="download">Downloading</a>
295     </h2>
296     <p>
297     The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
298 tdb 1.29 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
299     All downloads are pgp signed using our
300 tdb 1.21 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
301     </p>
302     <p>
303     For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
304 tdb 1.33 files contained within the archive.
305 tdb 1.22 </p>
306     <h2>
307 tdb 1.25 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
308     </h2>
309     <ul>
310     <li>
311     <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
312     </li>
313     <li>
314 tdb 1.51 <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP</a>
315     </li>
316     <li>
317     <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl</a>
318 tdb 1.25 </li>
319     <li>
320 tdb 1.51 <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby</a>
321 tdb 1.25 </li>
322     </ul>
323     <p>
324     Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
325     that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
326 tdb 1.55 a binding for another language, please get in touch so we
327 tdb 1.25 can add a link here.
328 tdb 1.33 </p>
329     <h2>
330     <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
331     </h2>
332     <ul>
333     <li>
334 tdb 1.34 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
335 tdb 1.33 </li>
336     <li>
337 tdb 1.45 <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
338 tdb 1.33 </li>
339     <li>
340     <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
341     </li>
342     <li>
343 tdb 1.44 <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
344     </li>
345     <li>
346 tdb 1.53 <a href="http://www.opencsw.org/packages/libstatgrab/">Solaris (OpenCSW)</a>
347     </li>
348     <li>
349 tdb 1.39 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
350 tdb 1.33 </li>
351     <li>
352     <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
353     </li>
354 tdb 1.47 <li>
355     <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/anagappan/">RPMs for various Linux distributions</a>
356     </li>
357 tdb 1.49 <li>
358     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/libstatgrab/">OpenBSD</a>
359     </li>
360 tdb 1.33 </ul>
361     <p>
362     These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
363     that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
364     we've missed any out, please let us know.
365     </p>
366     <p>
367     We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
368     to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
369     </p>
370 tdb 1.25 <h2>
371 tdb 1.21 <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
372     </h2>
373     <p>
374     The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
375 tdb 1.43 manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
376     manual pages for the command line tools:
377     </p>
378     <ul>
379     <li>
380     <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
381     </li>
382     <li>
383     <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
384     </li>
385     <li>
386     <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
387     </li>
388     <li>
389     <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
390     </li>
391     </ul>
392     <p>
393     We also have an overview page for the library:
394 tdb 1.21 </p>
395     <ul>
396     <li>
397 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
398 tdb 1.21 </li>
399     </ul>
400     <p>
401     Then we have the manual pages for each function:
402     </p>
403     <ul>
404     <li>
405 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
406 tdb 1.24 </li>
407     <li>
408 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
409 tdb 1.21 </li>
410     <li>
411 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
412 tdb 1.21 </li>
413     <li>
414 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
415 tdb 1.21 </li>
416     <li>
417 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
418 tdb 1.21 </li>
419     <li>
420 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
421 tdb 1.21 </li>
422     <li>
423 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
424 tdb 1.21 </li>
425     <li>
426 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
427 tdb 1.21 </li>
428     <li>
429 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
430 tdb 1.21 </li>
431     <li>
432 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
433 tdb 1.21 </li>
434     <li>
435 tdb 1.43 <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
436 tdb 1.21 </li>
437     </ul>
438     <h2>
439     <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
440     </h2>
441     <p>
442     Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
443     </p>
444     <p>
445     <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
446     </p>
447     </div>
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