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26 <h1>libstatgrab</h1>
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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>
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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>
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44 <p>
45 <b>Wednesday 11 February 2004</b><br><br>
46 Version 0.8.2 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-0.8.2.tar.gz">here</a>.
49 The main focus of this release is adding support for Solaris 6.
50 We've also added python bindings so you can use libstatgrab directly
51 from python (see the extras directory). Finally, we've tidied up a
52 few bits of the code.
53 </p>
54
55 <p>
56 <b>Wednesday 21 January 2004</b><br><br>
57 Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
58 Download it
59 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
60 This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file descriptor leak was
61 fixed. On Solaris some significant speed increases were made to the
62 disk mapping code, along with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms.
63 Also, the library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
64 released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
65 </p>
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67 <p>
68 <b>Tuesday 6 January 2004</b><br><br>
69 Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
70 Download it
71 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">here</a>.
72 This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial support for Cygwin.
73 On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk names using cNtNdNsN names rather
74 than the older sdN names. There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations
75 in various places. Finally, a new function has been added to make it
76 quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab may require on some
77 operating systems.
78 </p>
79
80 <p>
81 <b>Wednesday 22 October 2003</b><br><br>
82 Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
83 Download it
84 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
85 The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD
86 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise
87 function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges
88 libstatgrab needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
89 and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms. Finally,
90 saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the
91 statistics.
92 </p>
93
94 <p>
95 <b>Saturday 18 October 2003</b><br><br>
96 Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
97 Download it
98 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
99 This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some
100 bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar,
101 and statgrab.
102 </p>
103
104 <p>
105 <b>Friday 10 October 2003</b><br><br>
106 Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
107 You can download it from our mirror site
108 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
109 This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
110 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
111 packaging enhancements.
112 </p>
113
114 <p>
115 <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
116 We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
117 You can download version 0.5.1 from
118 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
119 </p>
120
121 <p>
122 <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
123 We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
124 You can download version 0.5 from
125 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
126 This release provides both documentation and examples, which
127 we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
128 next release with some useful tools.
129 </p>
130
131 <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
132
133 <p>
134 libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
135 statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
136 presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
137 key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
138 usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
139 traffic, disk I/O, and more.
140 </p>
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142 <p>
143 The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD
144 4.x/5.x, and NetBSD 1.6.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many
145 operating systems as possible.
146 </p>
147
148 <p>
149 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first,
150 <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to
151 viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a
152 sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
153 extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything
154 else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is
155 a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a>
156 configuration file to use statgrab.
157 </p>
158
159 <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
160
161 <p>
162 The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
163 primary download
164 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
165 All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
166 </p>
167
168 <p>
169 For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
170 contained within the archive. If you're using
171 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
172 <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
173 port to install libstatgrab for you.
174 </p>
175
176 <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
177
178 <p>
179 The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
180 pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
181 the overview manual page:
182
183 <ul>
184 <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
185 </ul>
186 </p>
187
188 <p>
189 Then we have the manual pages for each function:
190
191 <ul>
192 <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
193 <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
194 <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
195 <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
196 <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
197 <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
198 <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
199 <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
200 <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
201 </ul>
202 </p>
203
204 <a name="screenshot"><h2>Screenshot</h2></a>
205
206 <p>
207 Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
208 </p>
209 <p>
210 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot">
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