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Revision: 1.24
Committed: Wed May 19 18:58:18 2004 UTC (20 years, 5 months ago) by tdb
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Log Message:
Update website to announce new libstatgrab release.

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3 <title>
4 i-scream libstatgrab homepage
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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="#news">News</a>
20 </li>
21 <li>
22 <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
23 </li>
24 <li>
25 <a href="#download">Downloading</a>
26 </li>
27 <li>
28 <a href="#development">Development</a>
29 </li>
30 <li>
31 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
32 </li>
33 <li>
34 <a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a>
35 </li>
36 </ul>
37 </div>
38 <h2>
39 <a id="news">News</a>
40 </h2>
41 <p>
42 To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
43 subscribe to our project over on
44 <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
45 </p>
46 <h3>
47 Thursday 20 May 2004
48 </h3>
49 <p>
50 Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
51 Download it
52 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.10.tar.gz">
53 here</a>.
54 </p>
55 <p>
56 This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
57 of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
58 this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
59 we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
60 for those who still need the old functions we have provided
61 compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
62 </p>
63 <p>
64 The other main change in this release is a new function to
65 provide full details on currently running processes. See the
66 documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
67 this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
68 process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
69 error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
70 see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
71 </p>
72 <p>
73 Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
74 of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
75 bindings - they're now available as their own project called
76 <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
77 </p>
78 <h3>
79 Sunday 21 March 2004
80 </h3>
81 <p>
82 pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
83 bindings, has been released. Check out it's
84 <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
85 </p>
86 <h3>
87 Wednesday 10 March 2004
88 </h3>
89 <p>
90 Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
91 Download it
92 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.9.tar.gz">
93 here</a>.
94 </p>
95 <p>
96 This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
97 added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
98 etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
99 errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
100 OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
101 to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
102 privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
103 </p>
104 <h3>
105 Wednesday 11 February 2004
106 </h3>
107 <p>
108 Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
109 Download it
110 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.2.tar.gz">
111 here</a>.
112 </p>
113 <p>
114 The main focus of this release is adding support for
115 Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
116 libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
117 directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
118 code.
119 </p>
120 <h3>
121 Wednesday 21 January 2004
122 </h3>
123 <p>
124 Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
125 Download it
126 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">
127 here</a>.
128 </p>
129 <p>
130 This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
131 descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
132 speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
133 with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
134 library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
135 released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
136 </p>
137 <h3>
138 Tuesday 6 January 2004
139 </h3>
140 <p>
141 Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
142 Download it
143 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">
144 here</a>.
145 </p>
146 <p>
147 This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
148 support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
149 names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
150 There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
151 various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
152 make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
153 may require on some operating systems.
154 </p>
155 <h3>
156 Wednesday 22 October 2003
157 </h3>
158 <p>
159 Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
160 Download it
161 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">
162 here</a>.
163 </p>
164 <p>
165 The most significant change in this release is support for
166 NetBSD 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been
167 optimised, and an initialise function has been added to
168 allow programs to drop any extra privileges libstatgrab
169 needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
170 and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.
171 Finally, saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't
172 get all the statistics.
173 </p>
174 <h3>
175 Saturday 18 October 2003
176 </h3>
177 <p>
178 Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
179 Download it
180 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">
181 here</a>.
182 </p>
183 <p>
184 This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and
185 some bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some
186 fixes to saidar, and statgrab.
187 </p>
188 <h3>
189 Friday 10 October 2003
190 </h3>
191 <p>
192 Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
193 You can download it from our mirror site
194 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">
195 here</a>.
196 </p>
197 <p>
198 This release includes some exciting new tools, support for
199 FreeBSD 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major
200 bugfixes and packaging enhancements.
201 </p>
202 <h3>
203 Tuesday 09 September 2003
204 </h3>
205 <p>
206 We're pleased to announce a new release of
207 libstatgrab.<br />
208 You can download version 0.5.1 from
209 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">
210 here</a>.
211 </p>
212 <h3>
213 Monday 25 August 2003
214 </h3>
215 <p>
216 We're pleased to announce a new release of
217 libstatgrab.<br />
218 You can download version 0.5 from
219 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">
220 here</a>.
221 </p>
222 <p>
223 This release provides both documentation and examples,
224 which we hope will make the package more useable. Stay
225 tuned for the next release with some useful tools.
226 </p>
227 <h2>
228 <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
229 </h2>
230 <p>
231 libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
232 access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
233 It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
234 interfaces which can be used to access key system
235 statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
236 usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
237 network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
238 </p>
239 <p>
240 The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
241 2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
242 DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
243 include as many operating systems as possible.
244 </p>
245 <p>
246 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
247 first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
248 curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
249 system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
250 interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
251 extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
252 anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
253 Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
254 <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
255 to use statgrab.
256 </p>
257 <h2>
258 <a id="download">Downloading</a>
259 </h2>
260 <p>
261 The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
262 our primary download
263 <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/">
264 mirror</a>. All downloads are pgp signed using our
265 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
266 </p>
267 <p>
268 For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
269 files contained within the archive. If you're using
270 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
271 use of the
272 <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
273 devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you.
274 </p>
275 <h2>
276 <a id="development">Development</a>
277 </h2>
278 <ul>
279 <li>
280 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
281 </li>
282 </ul>
283 <p>
284 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
285 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
286 For more information on our CVS setup see our
287 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
288 </p>
289 <h2>
290 <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
291 </h2>
292 <p>
293 The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
294 manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
295 best to start with the overview manual page:
296 </p>
297 <ul>
298 <li>
299 <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
300 </li>
301 </ul>
302 <p>
303 Then we have the manual pages for each function:
304 </p>
305 <ul>
306 <li>
307 <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
308 </li>
309 <li>
310 <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
311 </li>
312 <li>
313 <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
314 </li>
315 <li>
316 <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
317 </li>
318 <li>
319 <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
320 </li>
321 <li>
322 <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
323 </li>
324 <li>
325 <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
326 </li>
327 <li>
328 <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
329 </li>
330 <li>
331 <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
332 </li>
333 <li>
334 <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
335 </li>
336 <li>
337 <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
338 </li>
339 </ul>
340 <h2>
341 <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
342 </h2>
343 <p>
344 Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
345 </p>
346 <p>
347 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
348 </p>
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