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Revision: 1.29
Committed: Sun Aug 1 15:21:39 2004 UTC (20 years, 3 months ago) by tdb
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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="#bindings">Language Bindings</a>
29 </li>
30 <li>
31 <a href="#development">Development</a>
32 </li>
33 <li>
34 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
35 </li>
36 <li>
37 <a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a>
38 </li>
39 </ul>
40 </div>
41 <h2>
42 <a id="news">News</a>
43 </h2>
44 <p>
45 To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
46 subscribe to our project over on
47 <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
48 </p>
49 <h3>
50 Tuesday 27 July 2004
51 </h3>
52 <p>
53 Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
54 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
55 </p>
56 <p>
57 This release fixes a problem with the shared library
58 version number in the last release.
59 </p>
60 <h3>
61 Monday 26 July 2004
62 </h3>
63 <p>
64 Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
65 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
66 </p>
67 <p>
68 This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
69 We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
70 NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
71 that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
72 variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
73 suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
74 we've added error reporting functions that store errno
75 values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
76 NEWS file.
77 </p>
78 <h3>
79 Thursday 20 May 2004
80 </h3>
81 <p>
82 Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
83 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
84 </p>
85 <p>
86 This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
87 of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
88 this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
89 we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
90 for those who still need the old functions we have provided
91 compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
92 </p>
93 <p>
94 The other main change in this release is a new function to
95 provide full details on currently running processes. See the
96 documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
97 this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
98 process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
99 error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
100 see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
101 </p>
102 <p>
103 Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
104 of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
105 bindings - they're now available as their own project called
106 <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
107 </p>
108 <h3>
109 Sunday 21 March 2004
110 </h3>
111 <p>
112 pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
113 bindings, has been released. Check out it's
114 <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
115 </p>
116 <h3>
117 Wednesday 10 March 2004
118 </h3>
119 <p>
120 Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
121 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
122 </p>
123 <p>
124 This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
125 added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
126 etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
127 errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
128 OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
129 to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
130 privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
131 </p>
132 <h3>
133 Wednesday 11 February 2004
134 </h3>
135 <p>
136 Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
137 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
138 </p>
139 <p>
140 The main focus of this release is adding support for
141 Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
142 libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
143 directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
144 code.
145 </p>
146 <h3>
147 Wednesday 21 January 2004
148 </h3>
149 <p>
150 Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
151 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
152 </p>
153 <p>
154 This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
155 descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
156 speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
157 with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
158 library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
159 released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
160 </p>
161 <h3>
162 Tuesday 6 January 2004
163 </h3>
164 <p>
165 Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
166 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
167 </p>
168 <p>
169 This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
170 support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
171 names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
172 There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
173 various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
174 make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
175 may require on some operating systems.
176 </p>
177 <h2>
178 <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
179 </h2>
180 <p>
181 libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
182 access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
183 It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
184 interfaces which can be used to access key system
185 statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
186 usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
187 network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
188 </p>
189 <p>
190 The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
191 2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
192 DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
193 include as many operating systems as possible.
194 </p>
195 <p>
196 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
197 first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
198 curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
199 system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
200 interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
201 extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
202 anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
203 Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
204 <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
205 to use statgrab.
206 </p>
207 <h2>
208 <a id="download">Downloading</a>
209 </h2>
210 <p>
211 The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
212 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
213 All downloads are pgp signed using our
214 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
215 </p>
216 <p>
217 For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
218 files contained within the archive. If you're using
219 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
220 use of the
221 <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
222 devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you.
223 </p>
224 <h2>
225 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
226 </h2>
227 <ul>
228 <li>
229 <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
230 </li>
231 <li>
232 <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
233 </li>
234 <li>
235 <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
236 </li>
237 </ul>
238 <p>
239 Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
240 that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
241 a binding for another language, please get
242 <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
243 can add a link here.
244 </p>
245 <h2>
246 <a id="development">Development</a>
247 </h2>
248 <ul>
249 <li>
250 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
251 </li>
252 </ul>
253 <p>
254 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
255 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
256 For more information on our CVS setup see our
257 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
258 </p>
259 <h2>
260 <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
261 </h2>
262 <p>
263 The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
264 manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
265 best to start with the overview manual page:
266 </p>
267 <ul>
268 <li>
269 <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
270 </li>
271 </ul>
272 <p>
273 Then we have the manual pages for each function:
274 </p>
275 <ul>
276 <li>
277 <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
278 </li>
279 <li>
280 <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
281 </li>
282 <li>
283 <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
284 </li>
285 <li>
286 <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
287 </li>
288 <li>
289 <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
290 </li>
291 <li>
292 <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
293 </li>
294 <li>
295 <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
296 </li>
297 <li>
298 <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
299 </li>
300 <li>
301 <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
302 </li>
303 <li>
304 <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
305 </li>
306 <li>
307 <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
308 </li>
309 </ul>
310 <h2>
311 <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
312 </h2>
313 <p>
314 Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
315 </p>
316 <p>
317 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
318 </p>
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