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16            <div id="topnav">
17              <ul>
18                <li>
19 <                <a href="#news">News</a>
19 >                <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
20                </li>
21                <li>
22 <                <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
22 >                <a href="#news">News</a>
23                </li>
24                <li>
25                  <a href="#download">Downloading</a>
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28                  <a href="#bindings">Language Bindings</a>
29                </li>
30                <li>
31 +                <a href="#packages">Packages</a>
32 +              </li>
33 +              <li>
34                  <a href="#development">Development</a>
35                </li>
36                <li>
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41                </li>
42              </ul>
43            </div>
44 + <!--#include virtual="/bannerad.inc" -->
45            <h2>
46 +            <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              <a id="news">News</a>
77            </h2>
78            <p>
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81              <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
82            </p>
83            <h3>
84 +            Monday 8 January 2007
85 +          </h3>
86 +          <p>
87 +            Version 0.14 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 contains mainly bugfixes - see the NEWS file
92 +            for a full list. The only new feature is colour support in
93 +            saidar which can be activated with the -c runtime flag.
94 +          </p>
95 +          <h3>
96 +            Monday 20 March 2006
97 +          </h3>
98 +          <p>
99 +            Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
100 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
101 +          </p>
102 +          <p>
103 +            This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
104 +            also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
105 +            added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
106 +            easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
107 +            full details.
108 +          </p>
109 +          <h3>
110 +            Sunday 31 July 2005
111 +          </h3>
112 +          <p>
113 +            Version 0.12 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 has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
118 +            API change. More details have been added to the file
119 +            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
120 +            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
121 +            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
122 +            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
123 +          </p>
124 +          <p>
125 +            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
126 +            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
127 +            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
128 +            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
129 +            defined.
130 +          </p>
131 +          <h3>
132 +            Tuesday 26 April 2005
133 +          </h3>
134 +          <p>
135 +            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
136 +            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
137 +          </p>
138 +          <p>
139 +            Thanks to the work of
140 +            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
141 +            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
142 +            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
143 +            updated.
144 +          </p>
145 +          <h3>
146 +            Thursday 3 March 2005
147 +          </h3>
148 +          <p>
149 +            Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
150 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
151 +          </p>
152 +          <p>
153 +            This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
154 +            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
155 +            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
156 +            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
157 +            ignored. These have all been fixed.
158 +          </p>
159 +          <h3>
160 +            Friday 12 November 2004
161 +          </h3>
162 +          <p>
163 +            Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
164 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
165 +          </p>
166 +          <p>
167 +            This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
168 +            also fixes a few other minor issues.
169 +          </p>
170 +          <h3>
171              Wednesday 25 August 2004
172            </h3>
173            <p>
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243            </h3>
244            <p>
245              pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
246 <            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
246 >            bindings, has been released. Check out its
247              <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
248            </p>
128          <h3>
129            Wednesday 10 March 2004
130          </h3>
131          <p>
132            Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
133            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
134          </p>
135          <p>
136            This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
137            added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
138            etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
139            errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
140            OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
141            to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
142            privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
143          </p>
144          <h3>
145            Wednesday 11 February 2004
146          </h3>
147          <p>
148            Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
149            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
150          </p>
151          <p>
152            The main focus of this release is adding support for
153            Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
154            libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
155            directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
156            code.
157          </p>
158          <h3>
159            Wednesday 21 January 2004
160          </h3>
161          <p>
162            Version 0.8.1 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 primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
167            descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
168            speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
169            with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
170            library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
171            released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
172          </p>
173          <h3>
174            Tuesday 6 January 2004
175          </h3>
176          <p>
177            Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
178            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
179          </p>
180          <p>
181            This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
182            support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
183            names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
184            There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
185            various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
186            make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
187            may require on some operating systems.
188          </p>
249            <h2>
190            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
191          </h2>
192          <p>
193            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
194            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
195            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
196            interfaces which can be used to access key system
197            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
198            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
199            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
200          </p>
201          <p>
202            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
203            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
204            DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
205            include as many operating systems as possible.
206          </p>
207          <p>
208            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
209            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
210            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
211            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
212            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
213            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
214            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
215            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
216            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
217            to use statgrab.
218          </p>
219          <h2>
250              <a id="download">Downloading</a>
251            </h2>
252            <p>
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257            </p>
258            <p>
259              For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
260 <            files contained within the archive. If you're using
231 <            <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
232 <            use of the
233 <            <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
234 <            devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you.
260 >            files contained within the archive.
261            </p>
262            <h2>
263              <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
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277              Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
278              that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
279              a binding for another language, please get
280 <            <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
280 >            <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
281              can add a link here.
282            </p>
283            <h2>
284 +            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
285 +          </h2>
286 +          <ul>
287 +            <li>
288 +              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
289 +            </li>
290 +            <li>
291 +              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
292 +            </li>
293 +            <li>
294 +              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
295 +            </li>
296 +            <li>
297 +              <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
298 +            </li>
299 +            <li>
300 +              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
301 +            </li>
302 +            <li>
303 +              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
304 +            </li>
305 +          </ul>
306 +          <p>
307 +            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
308 +            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
309 +            we've missed any out, please let us know.
310 +          </p>
311 +          <p>
312 +            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
313 +            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
314 +          </p>
315 +          <p>
316 +            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
317 +            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
318 +            it. You can find it
319 +            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
320 +            here</a>.
321 +          </p>
322 +          <h2>
323              <a id="development">Development</a>
324            </h2>
325            <ul>
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338            </h2>
339            <p>
340              The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
341 <            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
342 <            best to start with the overview manual page:
341 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
342 >            manual pages for the command line tools:
343            </p>
344            <ul>
345              <li>
346 <              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
346 >              <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
347              </li>
348 +            <li>
349 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
350 +            </li>
351 +            <li>
352 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
353 +            </li>
354 +            <li>
355 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
356 +            </li>
357            </ul>
358            <p>
359 +            We also have an overview page for the library:
360 +          </p>
361 +          <ul>
362 +            <li>
363 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
364 +            </li>
365 +          </ul>
366 +          <p>
367              Then we have the manual pages for each function:
368            </p>
369            <ul>
370              <li>
371 <              <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
371 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
372              </li>
373              <li>
374 <              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
374 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
375              </li>
376              <li>
377 <              <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
377 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
378              </li>
379              <li>
380 <              <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
380 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
381              </li>
382              <li>
383 <              <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
383 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
384              </li>
385              <li>
386 <              <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
386 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
387              </li>
388              <li>
389 <              <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
389 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
390              </li>
391              <li>
392 <              <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
392 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
393              </li>
394              <li>
395 <              <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
395 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
396              </li>
397              <li>
398 <              <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
398 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
399              </li>
400              <li>
401 <              <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
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