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Release libstatgrab 0.17.

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