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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>
26                </li>
27                <li>
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 <            Sunday 21 March 2004
84 >            Monday 8 January 2007
85            </h3>
86            <p>
87 <            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
88 <            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
52 <            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
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 +            in the distribution for a full list. It also brings a new
93 +            feature in saidar: colour support, which can be activated
94 +            with the -c runtime flag.
95 +          </p>
96            <h3>
97 <            Wednesday 10 March 2004
97 >            Monday 20 March 2006
98            </h3>
99            <p>
100 <            Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
101 <            Download it
60 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.9.tar.gz">
61 <            here</a>.
100 >            Version 0.13 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 brings new features and new platforms. We've
105 <            added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
106 <            etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
107 <            errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
108 <            OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
69 <            to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
70 <            privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
104 >            This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
105 >            also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
106 >            added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
107 >            easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
108 >            full details.
109            </p>
110            <h3>
111 <            Wednesday 11 February 2004
111 >            Sunday 31 July 2005
112            </h3>
113            <p>
114 <            Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
115 <            Download it
78 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.2.tar.gz">
79 <            here</a>.
114 >            Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
115 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
116            </p>
117            <p>
118 <            The main focus of this release is adding support for
119 <            Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
120 <            libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
121 <            directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
122 <            code.
118 >            This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
119 >            API change. More details have been added to the file
120 >            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
121 >            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
122 >            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
123 >            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
124            </p>
125 +          <p>
126 +            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
127 +            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
128 +            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
129 +            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
130 +            defined.
131 +          </p>
132            <h3>
133 <            Wednesday 21 January 2004
133 >            Tuesday 26 April 2005
134            </h3>
135            <p>
136 <            Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
137 <            Download it
94 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">
95 <            here</a>.
136 >            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
137 >            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
138            </p>
139            <p>
140 <            This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
141 <            descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
142 <            speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
143 <            with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
144 <            library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
103 <            released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
140 >            Thanks to the work of
141 >            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
142 >            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
143 >            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
144 >            updated.
145            </p>
146            <h3>
147 <            Tuesday 6 January 2004
147 >            Thursday 3 March 2005
148            </h3>
149            <p>
150 <            Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
151 <            Download it
111 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">
112 <            here</a>.
150 >            Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
151 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
152            </p>
153            <p>
154 <            This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
155 <            support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
156 <            names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
157 <            There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
158 <            various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
120 <            make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
121 <            may require on some operating systems.
154 >            This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
155 >            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
156 >            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
157 >            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
158 >            ignored. These have all been fixed.
159            </p>
160            <h3>
161 <            Wednesday 22 October 2003
161 >            Friday 12 November 2004
162            </h3>
163            <p>
164 <            Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
165 <            Download it
129 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">
130 <            here</a>.
164 >            Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
165 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
166            </p>
167            <p>
168 <            The most significant change in this release is support for
169 <            NetBSD 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been
135 <            optimised, and an initialise function has been added to
136 <            allow programs to drop any extra privileges libstatgrab
137 <            needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
138 <            and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.
139 <            Finally, saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't
140 <            get all the statistics.
168 >            This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
169 >            also fixes a few other minor issues.
170            </p>
171            <h3>
172 <            Saturday 18 October 2003
172 >            Wednesday 25 August 2004
173            </h3>
174            <p>
175 <            Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
176 <            Download it
148 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">
149 <            here</a>.
175 >            Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
176 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
177            </p>
178            <p>
179 <            This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and
180 <            some bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some
181 <            fixes to saidar, and statgrab.
179 >            This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
180 >            adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
181 >            the tarball for more details.
182            </p>
183            <h3>
184 <            Friday 10 October 2003
184 >            Tuesday 27 July 2004
185            </h3>
186            <p>
187 <            Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
188 <            You can download it from our mirror site
162 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">
163 <            here</a>.
187 >            Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
188 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
189            </p>
190            <p>
191 <            This release includes some exciting new tools, support for
192 <            FreeBSD 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major
168 <            bugfixes and packaging enhancements.
191 >            This release fixes a problem with the shared library
192 >            version number in the last release.
193            </p>
194            <h3>
195 <            Tuesday 09 September 2003
195 >            Monday 26 July 2004
196            </h3>
197            <p>
198 <            We're pleased to announce a new release of
199 <            libstatgrab.<br />
176 <            You can download version 0.5.1 from
177 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">
178 <            here</a>.
198 >            Version 0.10.1 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 consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
203 +            We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
204 +            NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
205 +            that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
206 +            variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
207 +            suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
208 +            we've added error reporting functions that store errno
209 +            values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
210 +            NEWS file.
211 +          </p>
212            <h3>
213 <            Monday 25 August 2003
213 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
214            </h3>
215            <p>
216 <            We're pleased to announce a new release of
217 <            libstatgrab.<br />
186 <            You can download version 0.5 from
187 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">
188 <            here</a>.
216 >            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
217 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
218            </p>
219            <p>
220 <            This release provides both documentation and examples,
221 <            which we hope will make the package more useable. Stay
222 <            tuned for the next release with some useful tools.
220 >            This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
221 >            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
222 >            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
223 >            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
224 >            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
225 >            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
226            </p>
195          <h2>
196            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
197          </h2>
227            <p>
228 <            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
229 <            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
230 <            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
231 <            interfaces which can be used to access key system
232 <            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
233 <            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
234 <            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
228 >            The other main change in this release is a new function to
229 >            provide full details on currently running processes. See the
230 >            documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
231 >            this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
232 >            process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
233 >            error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
234 >            see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
235            </p>
236            <p>
237 <            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
238 <            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
239 <            DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
240 <            include as many operating systems as possible.
237 >            Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
238 >            of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
239 >            bindings - they're now available as their own project called
240 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
241            </p>
242 +          <h3>
243 +            Sunday 21 March 2004
244 +          </h3>
245            <p>
246 <            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
247 <            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
248 <            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
217 <            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
218 <            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
219 <            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
220 <            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
221 <            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
222 <            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
223 <            to use statgrab.
246 >            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
247 >            bindings, has been released. Check out its
248 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
249            </p>
250            <h2>
251              <a id="download">Downloading</a>
252            </h2>
253            <p>
254              The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
255 <            our primary download
256 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/">
232 <            mirror</a>. All downloads are pgp signed using our
255 >            our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
256 >            All downloads are pgp signed using our
257              <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
258            </p>
259            <p>
260              For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
261 <            files contained within the archive. If you're using
238 <            <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
239 <            use of the
240 <            <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
241 <            devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you.
261 >            files contained within the archive.
262            </p>
263            <h2>
264 +            <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
265 +          </h2>
266 +          <ul>
267 +            <li>
268 +              <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
269 +            </li>
270 +            <li>
271 +              <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
272 +            </li>
273 +            <li>
274 +              <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
275 +            </li>
276 +          </ul>
277 +          <p>
278 +            Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
279 +            that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
280 +            a binding for another language, please get
281 +            <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
282 +            can add a link here.
283 +          </p>
284 +          <h2>
285 +            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
286 +          </h2>
287 +          <ul>
288 +            <li>
289 +              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
290 +            </li>
291 +            <li>
292 +              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
293 +            </li>
294 +            <li>
295 +              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
296 +            </li>
297 +            <li>
298 +              <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
299 +            </li>
300 +            <li>
301 +              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
302 +            </li>
303 +            <li>
304 +              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
305 +            </li>
306 +          </ul>
307 +          <p>
308 +            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
309 +            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
310 +            we've missed any out, please let us know.
311 +          </p>
312 +          <p>
313 +            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
314 +            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
315 +          </p>
316 +          <p>
317 +            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
318 +            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
319 +            it. You can find it
320 +            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
321 +            here</a>.
322 +          </p>
323 +          <h2>
324              <a id="development">Development</a>
325            </h2>
326            <ul>
327              <li>
328 <              <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
328 >              <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
329              </li>
330            </ul>
331            <p>
332 <            We develop pystatgrab using the CVS revision control system.    
332 >            We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
333              Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
334 <            For more information on our CVS setup see our  
334 >            For more information on our CVS setup see our
335              <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
336            </p>
337            <h2>
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339            </h2>
340            <p>
341              The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
342 <            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
343 <            best to start with the overview manual page:
342 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
343 >            manual pages for the command line tools:
344            </p>
345            <ul>
346              <li>
347 <              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
347 >              <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
348              </li>
349 +            <li>
350 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
351 +            </li>
352 +            <li>
353 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
354 +            </li>
355 +            <li>
356 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
357 +            </li>
358            </ul>
359            <p>
360 +            We also have an overview page for the library:
361 +          </p>
362 +          <ul>
363 +            <li>
364 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
365 +            </li>
366 +          </ul>
367 +          <p>
368              Then we have the manual pages for each function:
369            </p>
370            <ul>
371              <li>
372 <              <a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a>
372 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
373              </li>
374              <li>
375 <              <a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a>
375 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
376              </li>
377              <li>
378 <              <a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a>
378 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
379              </li>
380              <li>
381 <              <a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a>
381 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
382              </li>
383              <li>
384 <              <a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a>
384 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
385              </li>
386              <li>
387 <              <a href="get_network_iface_stats.html">get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
387 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
388              </li>
389              <li>
390 <              <a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a>
390 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
391              </li>
392              <li>
393 <              <a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a>
393 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
394              </li>
395              <li>
396 <              <a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a>
396 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
397              </li>
398              <li>
399 <              <a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a>
399 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
400 >            </li>
401 >            <li>
402 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
403              </li>
404            </ul>
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