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25 <
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 < <li><a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a></li>
34 < </ul>
35 <
36 < <a name="news"><h2>News</h2></a>
37 <
38 < <p>
39 < To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not subscribe
40 < to our project over on <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">
41 < freshmeat</a>?
42 < </p>
43 <
44 < <p>
45 < <b>Wednesday 22 October 2003</b><br><br>
46 < Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
47 < Download it
48 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
49 < The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD
50 < 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise
51 < function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges
52 < libstatgrab needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
53 < and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.  Finally,
54 < saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the
55 < statistics.
56 < </p>
57 <
58 < <p>
59 < <b>Saturday 18 October 2003</b><br><br>
60 < Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
61 < Download it
62 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
63 < This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some
64 < bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar,
65 < and statgrab.
66 < </p>
67 <
68 < <p>
69 < <b>Friday 10 October 2003</b><br><br>
70 < Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
71 < You can download it from our mirror site
72 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
73 < This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
74 < 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
75 < packaging enhancements.
76 < </p>
77 <
78 < <p>
79 < <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
80 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
81 < You can download version 0.5.1 from
82 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
83 < </p>
84 <
85 < <p>
86 < <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
87 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
88 < You can download version 0.5 from
89 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
90 < This release provides both documentation and examples, which
91 < we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
92 < next release with some useful tools.
93 < </p>
94 <
95 < <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
96 <
97 < <p>
98 < libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
99 < statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
100 < presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
101 < key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
102 < usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
103 < traffic, disk I/O, and more.
104 < </p>
105 <
106 < <p>
107 < The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD
108 < 4.x/5.x, and NetBSD 1.6.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many
109 < operating systems as possible.
110 < </p>
111 <
112 < <p>
113 < The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first,
114 < <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to
115 < viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a
116 < sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
117 < extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything
118 < else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is
119 < a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a>
120 < configuration file to use statgrab.
121 < </p>
122 <
123 < <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
124 <
125 < <p>
126 < The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
127 < primary download
128 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
129 < All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
130 < </p>
131 <
132 < <p>
133 < For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
134 < contained within the archive. If you're using
135 < <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
136 < <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
137 < port to install libstatgrab for you.
138 < </p>
139 <
140 < <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
141 <
142 < <p>
143 < The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
144 < pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
145 < the overview manual page:
146 <
147 < <ul>
148 < <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
149 < </ul>
150 < </p>
151 <
152 < <p>
153 < Then we have the manual pages for each function:
154 <
155 < <ul>
156 < <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
157 < <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
158 < <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
159 < <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
160 < <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
161 < <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
162 < <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
163 < <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
164 < <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
165 < </ul>
166 < </p>
167 <
168 < <a name="screenshot"><h2>Screenshot</h2></a>
169 <
170 < <p>
171 < Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
172 < </p>
173 < <p>
174 < <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot">
175 < </p>
176 <
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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="#news">News</a>
20 >              </li>
21 >              <li>
22 >                <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</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="#development">Development</a>
32 >              </li>
33 >              <li>
34 >                <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
35 >              </li>
36 >              <li>
37 >                <a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a>
38 >              </li>
39 >            </ul>
40 >          </div>
41 >          <h2>
42 >            <a id="news">News</a>
43 >          </h2>
44 >          <p>
45 >            To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
46 >            subscribe to our project over on
47 >            <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
48 >          </p>
49 >          <h3>
50 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
51 >          </h3>
52 >          <p>
53 >            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
54 >            Download it
55 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.10.tar.gz">
56 >            here</a>.
57 >          </p>
58 >          <p>
59 >            This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
60 >            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
61 >            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
62 >            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
63 >            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
64 >            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
65 >          </p>
66 >          <p>
67 >            The other main change in this release is a new function to
68 >            provide full details on currently running processes. See the
69 >            documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
70 >            this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
71 >            process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
72 >            error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
73 >            see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
74 >          </p>
75 >          <p>
76 >            Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
77 >            of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
78 >            bindings - they're now available as their own project called
79 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
80 >          </p>
81 >          <h3>
82 >            Sunday 21 March 2004
83 >          </h3>
84 >          <p>
85 >            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
86 >            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
87 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
88 >          </p>
89 >          <h3>
90 >            Wednesday 10 March 2004
91 >          </h3>
92 >          <p>
93 >            Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
94 >            Download it
95 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.9.tar.gz">
96 >            here</a>.
97 >          </p>
98 >          <p>
99 >            This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
100 >            added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
101 >            etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
102 >            errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
103 >            OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
104 >            to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
105 >            privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
106 >          </p>
107 >          <h3>
108 >            Wednesday 11 February 2004
109 >          </h3>
110 >          <p>
111 >            Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
112 >            Download it
113 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.2.tar.gz">
114 >            here</a>.
115 >          </p>
116 >          <p>
117 >            The main focus of this release is adding support for
118 >            Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
119 >            libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
120 >            directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
121 >            code.
122 >          </p>
123 >          <h3>
124 >            Wednesday 21 January 2004
125 >          </h3>
126 >          <p>
127 >            Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
128 >            Download it
129 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">
130 >            here</a>.
131 >          </p>
132 >          <p>
133 >            This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
134 >            descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
135 >            speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
136 >            with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
137 >            library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
138 >            released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
139 >          </p>
140 >          <h3>
141 >            Tuesday 6 January 2004
142 >          </h3>
143 >          <p>
144 >            Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
145 >            Download it
146 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">
147 >            here</a>.
148 >          </p>
149 >          <p>
150 >            This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
151 >            support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
152 >            names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
153 >            There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
154 >            various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
155 >            make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
156 >            may require on some operating systems.
157 >          </p>
158 >          <h3>
159 >            Wednesday 22 October 2003
160 >          </h3>
161 >          <p>
162 >            Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
163 >            Download it
164 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">
165 >            here</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
170 >            optimised, and an initialise function has been added to
171 >            allow programs to drop any extra privileges libstatgrab
172 >            needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
173 >            and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.
174 >            Finally, saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't
175 >            get all the statistics.
176 >          </p>
177 >          <h3>
178 >            Saturday 18 October 2003
179 >          </h3>
180 >          <p>
181 >            Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
182 >            Download it
183 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">
184 >            here</a>.
185 >          </p>
186 >          <p>
187 >            This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and
188 >            some bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some
189 >            fixes to saidar, and statgrab.
190 >          </p>
191 >          <h3>
192 >            Friday 10 October 2003
193 >          </h3>
194 >          <p>
195 >            Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
196 >            You can download it from our mirror site
197 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">
198 >            here</a>.
199 >          </p>
200 >          <p>
201 >            This release includes some exciting new tools, support for
202 >            FreeBSD 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major
203 >            bugfixes and packaging enhancements.
204 >          </p>
205 >          <h3>
206 >            Tuesday 09 September 2003
207 >          </h3>
208 >          <p>
209 >            We're pleased to announce a new release of
210 >            libstatgrab.<br />
211 >            You can download version 0.5.1 from
212 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">
213 >            here</a>.
214 >          </p>
215 >          <h3>
216 >            Monday 25 August 2003
217 >          </h3>
218 >          <p>
219 >            We're pleased to announce a new release of
220 >            libstatgrab.<br />
221 >            You can download version 0.5 from
222 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">
223 >            here</a>.
224 >          </p>
225 >          <p>
226 >            This release provides both documentation and examples,
227 >            which we hope will make the package more useable. Stay
228 >            tuned for the next release with some useful tools.
229 >          </p>
230 >          <h2>
231 >            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
232 >          </h2>
233 >          <p>
234 >            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
235 >            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
236 >            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
237 >            interfaces which can be used to access key system
238 >            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
239 >            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
240 >            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
241 >          </p>
242 >          <p>
243 >            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
244 >            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
245 >            DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
246 >            include as many operating systems as possible.
247 >          </p>
248 >          <p>
249 >            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
250 >            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
251 >            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
252 >            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
253 >            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
254 >            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
255 >            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
256 >            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
257 >            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
258 >            to use statgrab.
259 >          </p>
260 >          <h2>
261 >            <a id="download">Downloading</a>
262 >          </h2>
263 >          <p>
264 >            The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
265 >            our primary download
266 >            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/">
267 >            mirror</a>. All downloads are pgp signed using our
268 >            <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
269 >          </p>
270 >          <p>
271 >            For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
272 >            files contained within the archive. If you're using
273 >            <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
274 >            use of the
275 >            <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
276 >            devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you.
277 >          </p>
278 >          <h2>
279 >            <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
280 >          </h2>
281 >          <ul>
282 >            <li>
283 >              <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
284 >            </li>
285 >            <li>
286 >              <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
287 >            </li>
288 >            <li>
289 >              <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
290 >            </li>
291 >          </ul>
292 >          <p>
293 >            Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
294 >            that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
295 >            a binding for another language, please get
296 >            <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
297 >            can add a link here.
298 >          </p>
299 >          <h2>
300 >            <a id="development">Development</a>
301 >          </h2>
302 >          <ul>
303 >            <li>
304 >              <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
305 >            </li>
306 >          </ul>
307 >          <p>
308 >            We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
309 >            Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
310 >            For more information on our CVS setup see our
311 >            <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
312 >          </p>
313 >          <h2>
314 >            <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
315 >          </h2>
316 >          <p>
317 >            The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
318 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
319 >            best to start with the overview manual page:
320 >          </p>
321 >          <ul>
322 >            <li>
323 >              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
324 >            </li>
325 >          </ul>
326 >          <p>
327 >            Then we have the manual pages for each function:
328 >          </p>
329 >          <ul>
330 >            <li>
331 >              <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
332 >            </li>
333 >            <li>
334 >              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
335 >            </li>
336 >            <li>
337 >              <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
338 >            </li>
339 >            <li>
340 >              <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
341 >            </li>
342 >            <li>
343 >              <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
344 >            </li>
345 >            <li>
346 >              <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
347 >            </li>
348 >            <li>
349 >              <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
350 >            </li>
351 >            <li>
352 >              <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
353 >            </li>
354 >            <li>
355 >              <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
356 >            </li>
357 >            <li>
358 >              <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
359 >            </li>
360 >            <li>
361 >              <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
362 >            </li>
363 >          </ul>
364 >          <h2>
365 >            <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
366 >          </h2>
367 >          <p>
368 >            Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
369 >          </p>
370 >          <p>
371 >            <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
372 >          </p>
373 >        </div>
374 > <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
375 >      </div>
376 > <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
377 >    </div>
378 >  </body>
379   </html>

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