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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>
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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 <            Thursday 20 May 2004
84 >            Monday 20 March 2006
85            </h3>
86            <p>
87 <            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
88 <            Download it
55 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.10.tar.gz">
56 <            here</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 concentrates heavily on standardising the names
92 <            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
93 <            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
94 <            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
95 <            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
64 <            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
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>
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>
97            <h3>
98 <            Sunday 21 March 2004
98 >            Sunday 31 July 2005
99            </h3>
100            <p>
101 <            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
102 <            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
87 <            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</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>
89          <h3>
90            Wednesday 10 March 2004
91          </h3>
104            <p>
105 <            Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
106 <            Download it
107 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.9.tar.gz">
108 <            here</a>.
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 <            This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
114 <            added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
115 <            etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
116 <            errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
117 <            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.
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
113 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.2.tar.gz">
114 <            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
129 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">
130 <            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
138 <            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
146 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">
147 <            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
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.
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
164 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">
165 <            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
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.
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
183 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">
184 <            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
189 <            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
197 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">
198 <            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 />
211 <            You can download version 0.5.1 from
212 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">
213 <            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>
215          <h3>
216            Monday 25 August 2003
217          </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.mirrorservice.org/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>
230          <h2>
231            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
232          </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
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.
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
246 <            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>
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>
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.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/">
267 <            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
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.
248 >            files contained within the archive.
249            </p>
250            <h2>
251              <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
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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:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
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>
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326            </h2>
327            <p>
328              The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
329 <            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
330 <            best to start with the overview manual page:
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="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
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="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
359 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
360              </li>
361              <li>
362 <              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
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="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
365 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
366              </li>
367              <li>
368 <              <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
368 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
369              </li>
370              <li>
371 <              <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
371 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
372              </li>
373              <li>
374 <              <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
374 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
375              </li>
376              <li>
377 <              <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
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="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
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="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
383 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
384              </li>
385              <li>
386 <              <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
386 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
387              </li>
388              <li>
389 <              <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
389 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
390              </li>
391            </ul>
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