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Revision: 1.30
Committed: Wed Aug 25 07:55:43 2004 UTC (20 years, 2 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
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New releases of libstatgrab and pystatgrab.

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4 i-scream libstatgrab homepage
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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 Wednesday 25 August 2004
51 </h3>
52 <p>
53 Version 0.10.3 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 adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
58 adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
59 the tarball for more details.
60 </p>
61 <h3>
62 Tuesday 27 July 2004
63 </h3>
64 <p>
65 Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
66 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
67 </p>
68 <p>
69 This release fixes a problem with the shared library
70 version number in the last release.
71 </p>
72 <h3>
73 Monday 26 July 2004
74 </h3>
75 <p>
76 Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
77 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
78 </p>
79 <p>
80 This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
81 We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
82 NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
83 that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
84 variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
85 suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
86 we've added error reporting functions that store errno
87 values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
88 NEWS file.
89 </p>
90 <h3>
91 Thursday 20 May 2004
92 </h3>
93 <p>
94 Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
95 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
96 </p>
97 <p>
98 This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
99 of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
100 this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
101 we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
102 for those who still need the old functions we have provided
103 compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
104 </p>
105 <p>
106 The other main change in this release is a new function to
107 provide full details on currently running processes. See the
108 documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
109 this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
110 process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
111 error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
112 see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
113 </p>
114 <p>
115 Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
116 of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
117 bindings - they're now available as their own project called
118 <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
119 </p>
120 <h3>
121 Sunday 21 March 2004
122 </h3>
123 <p>
124 pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
125 bindings, has been released. Check out it's
126 <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
127 </p>
128 <h3>
129 Wednesday 10 March 2004
130 </h3>
131 <p>
132 Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
133 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
134 </p>
135 <p>
136 This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
137 added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
138 etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
139 errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
140 OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
141 to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
142 privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
143 </p>
144 <h3>
145 Wednesday 11 February 2004
146 </h3>
147 <p>
148 Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
149 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
150 </p>
151 <p>
152 The main focus of this release is adding support for
153 Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
154 libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
155 directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
156 code.
157 </p>
158 <h3>
159 Wednesday 21 January 2004
160 </h3>
161 <p>
162 Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
163 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
164 </p>
165 <p>
166 This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
167 descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
168 speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
169 with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
170 library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
171 released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
172 </p>
173 <h3>
174 Tuesday 6 January 2004
175 </h3>
176 <p>
177 Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
178 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
179 </p>
180 <p>
181 This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
182 support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
183 names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
184 There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
185 various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
186 make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
187 may require on some operating systems.
188 </p>
189 <h2>
190 <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
191 </h2>
192 <p>
193 libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
194 access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
195 It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
196 interfaces which can be used to access key system
197 statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
198 usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
199 network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
200 </p>
201 <p>
202 The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
203 2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
204 DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
205 include as many operating systems as possible.
206 </p>
207 <p>
208 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
209 first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
210 curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
211 system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
212 interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
213 extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
214 anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
215 Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
216 <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
217 to use statgrab.
218 </p>
219 <h2>
220 <a id="download">Downloading</a>
221 </h2>
222 <p>
223 The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
224 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
225 All downloads are pgp signed using our
226 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
227 </p>
228 <p>
229 For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
230 files contained within the archive. If you're using
231 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
232 use of the
233 <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
234 devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you.
235 </p>
236 <h2>
237 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
238 </h2>
239 <ul>
240 <li>
241 <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
242 </li>
243 <li>
244 <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
245 </li>
246 <li>
247 <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
248 </li>
249 </ul>
250 <p>
251 Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
252 that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
253 a binding for another language, please get
254 <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
255 can add a link here.
256 </p>
257 <h2>
258 <a id="development">Development</a>
259 </h2>
260 <ul>
261 <li>
262 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
263 </li>
264 </ul>
265 <p>
266 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
267 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
268 For more information on our CVS setup see our
269 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
270 </p>
271 <h2>
272 <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
273 </h2>
274 <p>
275 The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
276 manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
277 best to start with the overview manual page:
278 </p>
279 <ul>
280 <li>
281 <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
282 </li>
283 </ul>
284 <p>
285 Then we have the manual pages for each function:
286 </p>
287 <ul>
288 <li>
289 <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
290 </li>
291 <li>
292 <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
293 </li>
294 <li>
295 <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
296 </li>
297 <li>
298 <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
299 </li>
300 <li>
301 <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
302 </li>
303 <li>
304 <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
305 </li>
306 <li>
307 <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
308 </li>
309 <li>
310 <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
311 </li>
312 <li>
313 <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
314 </li>
315 <li>
316 <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
317 </li>
318 <li>
319 <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
320 </li>
321 </ul>
322 <h2>
323 <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
324 </h2>
325 <p>
326 Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
327 </p>
328 <p>
329 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
330 </p>
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