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26 < <h1>libstatgrab</h1>
27 <
28 < <ul>
29 < <li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
30 < <li><a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a></li>
31 < <li><a href="#download">Downloading</a></li>
32 < <li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
33 < </ul>
34 <
35 < <a name="news"><h2>News</h2></a>
36 <
37 < <p>
38 < <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
39 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
40 < You can download version 0.5.1 from
41 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
42 < This release is primarily a bugfix release..
43 < </p>
44 <
45 < <p>
46 < <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
47 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
48 < You can download version 0.5 from
49 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
50 < This release provides both documentation and examples, which
51 < we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
52 < next release with some useful tools.
53 < </p>
54 <
55 < <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
56 <
57 < <p>
58 < libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
59 < statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
60 < presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
61 < key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
62 < usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
63 < traffic, disk I/O, and more.
64 < </p>
65 <
66 < <p>
67 < The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, and FreeBSD
68 < 4.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many operating systems as
69 < possible.
70 < </p>
71 <
72 < <p>
73 < The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first, saidar,
74 < provides a curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
75 < system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style interface to the
76 < statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This extends the use of
77 < libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything else that can't
78 < easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is a script to
79 < generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
80 < to use statgrab.
81 < </p>
82 <
83 < <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
84 <
85 < <p>
86 < The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
87 < primary download
88 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
89 < All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
90 < </p>
91 <
92 < <p>
93 < For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
94 < contained within the archive. If you're using
95 < <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
96 < <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
97 < port to install libstatgrab for you.
98 < </p>
99 <
100 < <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
101 <
102 < <p>
103 < The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
104 < pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
105 < the overview manual page:
106 <
107 < <ul>
108 < <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
109 < </ul>
110 < </p>
111 <
112 < <p>
113 < Then we have the manual pages for each function:
114 <
115 < <ul>
116 < <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
117 < <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
118 < <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
119 < <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
120 < <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
121 < <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
122 < <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
123 < <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
124 < <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
125 < </ul>
126 < </p>
127 <
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1 > <!--#include virtual="/doctype.inc" -->
2 >  <head>
3 >    <title>
4 >      i-scream libstatgrab homepage
5 >    </title>
6 > <!--#include virtual="/style.inc" -->
7 >  </head>
8 >  <body>
9 >    <div id="container">
10 >      <div id="main">
11 > <!--#include virtual="/header.inc" -->
12 >        <div id="contents">
13 >          <h1 class="top">
14 >            i-scream libstatgrab homepage
15 >          </h1>
16 >          <div id="topnav">
17 >            <ul>
18 >              <li>
19 >                <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
20 >              </li>
21 >              <li>
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>
37 >                <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
38 >              </li>
39 >              <li>
40 >                <a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a>
41 >              </li>
42 >            </ul>
43 >          </div>
44 >          <h2>
45 >            <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 >            <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 >            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 >            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 >            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 >            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 >            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 >            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 >          </p>
144 >          <h3>
145 >            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 >            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 >            Tuesday 26 April 2005
182 >          </h3>
183 >          <p>
184 >            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
185 >            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
186 >          </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 >            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 >            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 >            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 >            Tuesday 27 July 2004
233 >          </h3>
234 >          <p>
235 >            Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
236 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
237 >          </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 >            Monday 26 July 2004
244 >          </h3>
245 >          <p>
246 >            Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
247 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
248 >          </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 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
262 >          </h3>
263 >          <p>
264 >            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
265 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
266 >          </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 >            Sunday 21 March 2004
292 >          </h3>
293 >          <p>
294 >            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
295 >            bindings, has been released. Check out its
296 >            <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 >            our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
304 >            All downloads are pgp signed using our
305 >            <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
306 >          </p>
307 >          <p>
308 >            For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
309 >            files contained within the archive.
310 >          </p>
311 >          <h2>
312 >            <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
313 >          </h2>
314 >          <ul>
315 >            <li>
316 >              <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
317 >            </li>
318 >            <li>
319 >              <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 >            </li>
324 >            <li>
325 >              <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby</a>
326 >            </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 >            <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
333 >            can add a link here.
334 >          </p>
335 >          <h2>
336 >            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
337 >          </h2>
338 >          <ul>
339 >            <li>
340 >              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
341 >            </li>
342 >            <li>
343 >              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
344 >            </li>
345 >            <li>
346 >              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
347 >            </li>
348 >            <li>
349 >              <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
350 >            </li>
351 >            <li>
352 >              <a href="http://www.opencsw.org/packages/libstatgrab/">Solaris (OpenCSW)</a>
353 >            </li>
354 >            <li>
355 >              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
356 >            </li>
357 >            <li>
358 >              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
359 >            </li>
360 >            <li>
361 >              <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/anagappan/">RPMs for various Linux distributions</a>
362 >            </li>
363 >            <li>
364 >              <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/libstatgrab/">OpenBSD</a>
365 >            </li>
366 >          </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 >          <h2>
377 >            <a id="development">Development</a>
378 >          </h2>
379 >          <ul>
380 >            <li>
381 >              <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
382 >            </li>
383 >          </ul>
384 >          <p>
385 >            We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
386 >            Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
387 >            For more information on our CVS setup see our
388 >            <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
389 >          </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 >            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 >          </p>
415 >          <ul>
416 >            <li>
417 >              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
418 >            </li>
419 >          </ul>
420 >          <p>
421 >            Then we have the manual pages for each function:
422 >          </p>
423 >          <ul>
424 >            <li>
425 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
426 >            </li>
427 >            <li>
428 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
429 >            </li>
430 >            <li>
431 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
432 >            </li>
433 >            <li>
434 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
435 >            </li>
436 >            <li>
437 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
438 >            </li>
439 >            <li>
440 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
441 >            </li>
442 >            <li>
443 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
444 >            </li>
445 >            <li>
446 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
447 >            </li>
448 >            <li>
449 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
450 >            </li>
451 >            <li>
452 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
453 >            </li>
454 >            <li>
455 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
456 >            </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>
468 > <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
469 >      </div>
470 > <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
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472 >  </body>
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