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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 <b>Wednesday 22 October 2003</b><br><br>
40 Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
41 Download it
42 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
43 The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD
44 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise
45 function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges
46 libstatgrab needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
47 and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms. Finally,
48 saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the
49 statistics.
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52 <p>
53 <b>Saturday 18 October 2003</b><br><br>
54 Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
55 Download it
56 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
57 This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some
58 bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar,
59 and statgrab.
60 </p>
61
62 <p>
63 <b>Friday 10 October 2003</b><br><br>
64 Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
65 You can download it from our mirror site
66 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
67 This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
68 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
69 packaging enhancements.
70 </p>
71
72 <p>
73 <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
74 We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
75 You can download version 0.5.1 from
76 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
77 </p>
78
79 <p>
80 <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
81 We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
82 You can download version 0.5 from
83 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
84 This release provides both documentation and examples, which
85 we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
86 next release with some useful tools.
87 </p>
88
89 <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
90
91 <p>
92 libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
93 statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
94 presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
95 key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
96 usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
97 traffic, disk I/O, and more.
98 </p>
99
100 <p>
101 The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD
102 4.x/5.x, and NetBSD 1.6.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many
103 operating systems as possible.
104 </p>
105
106 <p>
107 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first,
108 <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to
109 viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a
110 sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
111 extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything
112 else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is
113 a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a>
114 configuration file to use statgrab.
115 </p>
116
117 <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
118
119 <p>
120 The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
121 primary download
122 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
123 All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
124 </p>
125
126 <p>
127 For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
128 contained within the archive. If you're using
129 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
130 <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
131 port to install libstatgrab for you.
132 </p>
133
134 <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
135
136 <p>
137 The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
138 pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
139 the overview manual page:
140
141 <ul>
142 <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
143 </ul>
144 </p>
145
146 <p>
147 Then we have the manual pages for each function:
148
149 <ul>
150 <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
151 <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
152 <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
153 <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
154 <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
155 <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
156 <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
157 <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
158 <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
159 </ul>
160 </p>
161
162 <a name="screenshot"><h2>Screenshot</h2></a>
163
164 <p>
165 Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
166 </p>
167 <p>
168 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot">
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