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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 20 March 2006
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 0.13 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 <            Wednesday 10 March 2004
98 >            Sunday 31 July 2005
99            </h3>
100            <p>
101 <            Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
102 <            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>.
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 brings new features and new platforms. We've
106 <            added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
107 <            etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
108 <            errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
109 <            OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
110 <            to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
70 <            privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
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 <            Wednesday 11 February 2004
120 >            Tuesday 26 April 2005
121            </h3>
122            <p>
123 <            Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
124 <            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>.
123 >            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
124 >            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
125            </p>
126            <p>
127 <            The main focus of this release is adding support for
128 <            Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
129 <            libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
130 <            directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
131 <            code.
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 <            Wednesday 21 January 2004
134 >            Thursday 3 March 2005
135            </h3>
136            <p>
137 <            Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
138 <            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>.
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 primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
142 <            descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
143 <            speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
144 <            with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
145 <            library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
103 <            released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
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 <            Tuesday 6 January 2004
148 >            Friday 12 November 2004
149            </h3>
150            <p>
151 <            Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
152 <            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>.
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 Linux 2.6 and partial
156 <            support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
117 <            names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
118 <            There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
119 <            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.
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 22 October 2003
159 >            Wednesday 25 August 2004
160            </h3>
161            <p>
162 <            Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
163 <            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>.
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 <            The most significant change in this release is support for
167 <            NetBSD 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been
168 <            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.
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 <            Saturday 18 October 2003
171 >            Tuesday 27 July 2004
172            </h3>
173            <p>
174 <            Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
175 <            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>.
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 brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and
179 <            some bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some
154 <            fixes to saidar, and statgrab.
178 >            This release fixes a problem with the shared library
179 >            version number in the last release.
180            </p>
181            <h3>
182 <            Friday 10 October 2003
182 >            Monday 26 July 2004
183            </h3>
184            <p>
185 <            Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
186 <            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>.
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 includes some exciting new tools, support for
190 <            FreeBSD 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major
191 <            bugfixes and packaging enhancements.
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 <            Tuesday 09 September 2003
200 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
201            </h3>
202            <p>
203 <            We're pleased to announce a new release of
204 <            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>.
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>
180          <h3>
181            Monday 25 August 2003
182          </h3>
206            <p>
207 <            We're pleased to announce a new release of
208 <            libstatgrab.<br />
209 <            You can download version 0.5 from
210 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">
211 <            here</a>.
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 <            This release provides both documentation and examples,
216 <            which we hope will make the package more useable. Stay
217 <            tuned for the next release with some useful tools.
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>
195          <h2>
196            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
197          </h2>
223            <p>
224 <            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
225 <            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
226 <            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
227 <            interfaces which can be used to access key system
203 <            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
204 <            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
205 <            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
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 <            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
234 <            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
235 <            DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
211 <            include as many operating systems as possible.
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>
213          <p>
214            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
215            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
216            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.
224          </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 primary download
243 <            <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
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. 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.
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://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
286 +            </li>
287 +            <li>
288 +              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
289 +            </li>
290 +          </ul>
291 +          <p>
292 +            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
293 +            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
294 +            we've missed any out, please let us know.
295 +          </p>
296 +          <p>
297 +            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
298 +            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
299 +          </p>
300 +          <p>
301 +            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
302 +            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
303 +            it. You can find it
304 +            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
305 +            here</a>.
306 +          </p>
307 +          <h2>
308              <a id="development">Development</a>
309            </h2>
310            <ul>
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313              </li>
314            </ul>
315            <p>
316 <            We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.    
316 >            We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
317              Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
318 <            For more information on our CVS setup see our  
318 >            For more information on our CVS setup see our
319              <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
320            </p>
321            <h2>
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323            </h2>
324            <p>
325              The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
326 <            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
327 <            best to start with the overview manual page:
326 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
327 >            manual pages for the command line tools:
328            </p>
329            <ul>
330              <li>
331 <              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
331 >              <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
332              </li>
333 +            <li>
334 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
335 +            </li>
336 +            <li>
337 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
338 +            </li>
339 +            <li>
340 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
341 +            </li>
342            </ul>
343            <p>
344 +            We also have an overview page for the library:
345 +          </p>
346 +          <ul>
347 +            <li>
348 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
349 +            </li>
350 +          </ul>
351 +          <p>
352              Then we have the manual pages for each function:
353            </p>
354            <ul>
355              <li>
356 <              <a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a>
356 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
357              </li>
358              <li>
359 <              <a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a>
359 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
360              </li>
361              <li>
362 <              <a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a>
362 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
363              </li>
364              <li>
365 <              <a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a>
365 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
366              </li>
367              <li>
368 <              <a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a>
368 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
369              </li>
370              <li>
371 <              <a href="get_network_iface_stats.html">get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
371 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
372              </li>
373              <li>
374 <              <a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a>
374 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
375              </li>
376              <li>
377 <              <a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a>
377 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
378              </li>
379              <li>
380 <              <a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a>
380 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
381              </li>
382              <li>
383 <              <a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a>
383 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
384 >            </li>
385 >            <li>
386 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
387              </li>
388            </ul>
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