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24 < <h1>libstatgrab</h1>
25 <
26 < <ul>
27 < <li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
28 < <li><a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a></li>
29 < <li><a href="#download">Downloading</a></li>
30 < <li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
31 < </ul>
32 <
33 < <a name="news"><h2>News</h2></a>
34 <
35 < <p>
36 < <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
37 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
38 < You can download version 0.5.1 from
39 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
40 < This release is primarily a bugfix release..
41 < </p>
42 <
43 < <p>
44 < <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
45 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
46 < You can download version 0.5 from
47 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
48 < This release provides both documentation and examples, which
49 < we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
50 < next release with some useful tools.
51 < </p>
52 <
53 < <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
54 <
55 < <p>
56 < libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
57 < statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
58 < presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
59 < key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
60 < usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
61 < traffic, disk I/O, and more.
62 < </p>
63 <
64 < <p>
65 < The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, and FreeBSD
66 < 4.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many operating systems as
67 < possible.
68 < </p>
69 <
70 < <p>
71 < The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first, saidar,
72 < provides a curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
73 < system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style interface to the
74 < statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This extends the use of
75 < libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything else that can't
76 < easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is a script to
77 < generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
78 < to use statgrab.
79 < </p>
80 <
81 < <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
82 <
83 < <p>
84 < The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
85 < primary download
86 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
87 < All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
88 < </p>
89 <
90 < <p>
91 < For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
92 < contained within the archive. If you're using
93 < <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
94 < <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
95 < port to install libstatgrab for you.
96 < </p>
97 <
98 < <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
99 <
100 < <p>
101 < The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
102 < pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
103 < the overview manual page:
104 <
105 < <ul>
106 < <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
107 < </ul>
108 < </p>
109 <
110 < <p>
111 < Then we have the manual pages for each function:
112 <
113 < <ul>
114 < <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
115 < <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
116 < <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
117 < <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
118 < <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
119 < <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
120 < <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
121 < <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
122 < <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
123 < </ul>
124 < </p>
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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 > <!--#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>
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 >            Monday 20 March 2006
85 >          </h3>
86 >          <p>
87 >            Version 0.13 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 mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
92 >            also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
93 >            added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
94 >            easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
95 >            full details.
96 >          </p>
97 >          <h3>
98 >            Sunday 31 July 2005
99 >          </h3>
100 >          <p>
101 >            Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
102 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
103 >          </p>
104 >          <p>
105 >            This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
106 >            API change. More details have been added to the file
107 >            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
108 >            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
109 >            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
110 >            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
111 >          </p>
112 >          <p>
113 >            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
114 >            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
115 >            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
116 >            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
117 >            defined.
118 >          </p>
119 >          <h3>
120 >            Tuesday 26 April 2005
121 >          </h3>
122 >          <p>
123 >            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
124 >            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
125 >          </p>
126 >          <p>
127 >            Thanks to the work of
128 >            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
129 >            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
130 >            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
131 >            updated.
132 >          </p>
133 >          <h3>
134 >            Thursday 3 March 2005
135 >          </h3>
136 >          <p>
137 >            Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
138 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
139 >          </p>
140 >          <p>
141 >            This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
142 >            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
143 >            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
144 >            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
145 >            ignored. These have all been fixed.
146 >          </p>
147 >          <h3>
148 >            Friday 12 November 2004
149 >          </h3>
150 >          <p>
151 >            Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
152 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
153 >          </p>
154 >          <p>
155 >            This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
156 >            also fixes a few other minor issues.
157 >          </p>
158 >          <h3>
159 >            Wednesday 25 August 2004
160 >          </h3>
161 >          <p>
162 >            Version 0.10.3 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 adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
167 >            adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
168 >            the tarball for more details.
169 >          </p>
170 >          <h3>
171 >            Tuesday 27 July 2004
172 >          </h3>
173 >          <p>
174 >            Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
175 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
176 >          </p>
177 >          <p>
178 >            This release fixes a problem with the shared library
179 >            version number in the last release.
180 >          </p>
181 >          <h3>
182 >            Monday 26 July 2004
183 >          </h3>
184 >          <p>
185 >            Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
186 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
187 >          </p>
188 >          <p>
189 >            This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
190 >            We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
191 >            NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
192 >            that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
193 >            variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
194 >            suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
195 >            we've added error reporting functions that store errno
196 >            values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
197 >            NEWS file.
198 >          </p>
199 >          <h3>
200 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
201 >          </h3>
202 >          <p>
203 >            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
204 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
205 >          </p>
206 >          <p>
207 >            This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
208 >            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
209 >            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
210 >            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
211 >            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
212 >            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
213 >          </p>
214 >          <p>
215 >            The other main change in this release is a new function to
216 >            provide full details on currently running processes. See the
217 >            documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
218 >            this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
219 >            process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
220 >            error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
221 >            see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
222 >          </p>
223 >          <p>
224 >            Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
225 >            of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
226 >            bindings - they're now available as their own project called
227 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
228 >          </p>
229 >          <h3>
230 >            Sunday 21 March 2004
231 >          </h3>
232 >          <p>
233 >            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
234 >            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
235 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
236 >          </p>
237 >          <h2>
238 >            <a id="download">Downloading</a>
239 >          </h2>
240 >          <p>
241 >            The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
242 >            our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
243 >            All downloads are pgp signed using our
244 >            <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
245 >          </p>
246 >          <p>
247 >            For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
248 >            files contained within the archive.
249 >          </p>
250 >          <h2>
251 >            <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
252 >          </h2>
253 >          <ul>
254 >            <li>
255 >              <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
256 >            </li>
257 >            <li>
258 >              <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
259 >            </li>
260 >            <li>
261 >              <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
262 >            </li>
263 >          </ul>
264 >          <p>
265 >            Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
266 >            that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
267 >            a binding for another language, please get
268 >            <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
269 >            can add a link here.
270 >          </p>
271 >          <h2>
272 >            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
273 >          </h2>
274 >          <ul>
275 >            <li>
276 >              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
277 >            </li>
278 >            <li>
279 >              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
280 >            </li>
281 >            <li>
282 >              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
283 >            </li>
284 >            <li>
285 >              <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
286 >            </li>
287 >            <li>
288 >              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
289 >            </li>
290 >            <li>
291 >              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
292 >            </li>
293 >          </ul>
294 >          <p>
295 >            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
296 >            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
297 >            we've missed any out, please let us know.
298 >          </p>
299 >          <p>
300 >            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
301 >            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
302 >          </p>
303 >          <p>
304 >            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
305 >            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
306 >            it. You can find it
307 >            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
308 >            here</a>.
309 >          </p>
310 >          <h2>
311 >            <a id="development">Development</a>
312 >          </h2>
313 >          <ul>
314 >            <li>
315 >              <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
316 >            </li>
317 >          </ul>
318 >          <p>
319 >            We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
320 >            Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
321 >            For more information on our CVS setup see our
322 >            <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
323 >          </p>
324 >          <h2>
325 >            <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
326 >          </h2>
327 >          <p>
328 >            The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
329 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
330 >            manual pages for the command line tools:
331 >          </p>
332 >          <ul>
333 >            <li>
334 >              <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
335 >            </li>
336 >            <li>
337 >              <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
338 >            </li>
339 >            <li>
340 >              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
341 >            </li>
342 >            <li>
343 >              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
344 >            </li>
345 >          </ul>
346 >          <p>
347 >            We also have an overview page for the library:
348 >          </p>
349 >          <ul>
350 >            <li>
351 >              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
352 >            </li>
353 >          </ul>
354 >          <p>
355 >            Then we have the manual pages for each function:
356 >          </p>
357 >          <ul>
358 >            <li>
359 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
360 >            </li>
361 >            <li>
362 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
363 >            </li>
364 >            <li>
365 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
366 >            </li>
367 >            <li>
368 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
369 >            </li>
370 >            <li>
371 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
372 >            </li>
373 >            <li>
374 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
375 >            </li>
376 >            <li>
377 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
378 >            </li>
379 >            <li>
380 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
381 >            </li>
382 >            <li>
383 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
384 >            </li>
385 >            <li>
386 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
387 >            </li>
388 >            <li>
389 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
390 >            </li>
391 >          </ul>
392 >          <h2>
393 >            <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
394 >          </h2>
395 >          <p>
396 >            Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
397 >          </p>
398 >          <p>
399 >            <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
400 >          </p>
401 >        </div>
402 > <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
403 >      </div>
404 > <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
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406 >  </body>
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