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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 < 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>
43 <
44 < <p>
45 < <b>Wednesday 21 January 2004</b><br><br>
46 < Version 0.8.1 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-0.8.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
49 < This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file descriptor leak was
50 < fixed. On Solaris some significant speed increases were made to the
51 < disk mapping code, along with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms.
52 < Also, the library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
53 < released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
54 < </p>
55 <
56 < <p>
57 < <b>Tuesday 6 January 2004</b><br><br>
58 < Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
59 < Download it
60 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">here</a>.
61 < This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial support for Cygwin.
62 < On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk names using cNtNdNsN names rather
63 < than the older sdN names. There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations
64 < in various places. Finally, a new function has been added to make it
65 < quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab may require on some
66 < operating systems.
67 < </p>
68 <
69 < <p>
70 < <b>Wednesday 22 October 2003</b><br><br>
71 < Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
72 < Download it
73 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
74 < The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD
75 < 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise
76 < function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges
77 < libstatgrab needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
78 < and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.  Finally,
79 < saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the
80 < statistics.
81 < </p>
82 <
83 < <p>
84 < <b>Saturday 18 October 2003</b><br><br>
85 < Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
86 < Download it
87 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
88 < This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some
89 < bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar,
90 < and statgrab.
91 < </p>
92 <
93 < <p>
94 < <b>Friday 10 October 2003</b><br><br>
95 < Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
96 < You can download it from our mirror site
97 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
98 < This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
99 < 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
100 < packaging enhancements.
101 < </p>
102 <
103 < <p>
104 < <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
105 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
106 < You can download version 0.5.1 from
107 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
108 < </p>
109 <
110 < <p>
111 < <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
112 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
113 < You can download version 0.5 from
114 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
115 < This release provides both documentation and examples, which
116 < we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
117 < next release with some useful tools.
118 < </p>
119 <
120 < <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
121 <
122 < <p>
123 < libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
124 < statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
125 < presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
126 < key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
127 < usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
128 < traffic, disk I/O, and more.
129 < </p>
130 <
131 < <p>
132 < The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD
133 < 4.x/5.x, and NetBSD 1.6.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many
134 < operating systems as possible.
135 < </p>
136 <
137 < <p>
138 < The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first,
139 < <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to
140 < viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a
141 < sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
142 < extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything
143 < else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is
144 < a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a>
145 < configuration file to use statgrab.
146 < </p>
147 <
148 < <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
149 <
150 < <p>
151 < The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
152 < primary download
153 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
154 < All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
155 < </p>
156 <
157 < <p>
158 < For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
159 < contained within the archive. If you're using
160 < <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
161 < <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
162 < port to install libstatgrab for you.
163 < </p>
164 <
165 < <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
166 <
167 < <p>
168 < The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
169 < pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
170 < the overview manual page:
171 <
172 < <ul>
173 < <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
174 < </ul>
175 < </p>
176 <
177 < <p>
178 < Then we have the manual pages for each function:
179 <
180 < <ul>
181 < <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
182 < <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
183 < <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
184 < <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
185 < <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
186 < <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
187 < <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
188 < <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
189 < <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
190 < </ul>
191 < </p>
192 <
193 < <a name="screenshot"><h2>Screenshot</h2></a>
194 <
195 < <p>
196 < Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
197 < </p>
198 < <p>
199 < <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot">
200 < </p>
201 <
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3 >    <title>
4 >      i-scream libstatgrab homepage
5 >    </title>
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8 >  <body>
9 >    <div id="container">
10 >      <div id="main">
11 > <!--#include virtual="/header.inc" -->
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="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
20 >              </li>
21 >              <li>
22 >                <a href="#news">News</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="#packages">Packages</a>
32 >              </li>
33 >              <li>
34 >                <a href="#development">Development</a>
35 >              </li>
36 >              <li>
37 >                <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
38 >              </li>
39 >              <li>
40 >                <a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a>
41 >              </li>
42 >            </ul>
43 >          </div>
44 > <!--#include virtual="/bannerad.inc" -->
45 >          <h2>
46 >            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
47 >          </h2>
48 >          <p>
49 >            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
50 >            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
51 >            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
52 >            interfaces which can be used to access key system
53 >            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
54 >            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
55 >            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
56 >          </p>
57 >          <p>
58 >            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
59 >            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
60 >            DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
61 >            this to include as many operating systems as possible.
62 >          </p>
63 >          <p>
64 >            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
65 >            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
66 >            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
67 >            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
68 >            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
69 >            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
70 >            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
71 >            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
72 >            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
73 >            to use statgrab.
74 >          </p>
75 >          <h2>
76 >            <a id="news">News</a>
77 >          </h2>
78 >          <p>
79 >            To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
80 >            subscribe to our project over on
81 >            <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
82 >          </p>
83 >          <h3>
84 >            Sunday 31 July 2005
85 >          </h3>
86 >          <p>
87 >            Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
88 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
89 >          </p>
90 >          <p>
91 >            This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
92 >            API change. More details have been added to the file
93 >            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
94 >            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
95 >            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
96 >            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
97 >          </p>
98 >          <p>
99 >            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
100 >            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
101 >            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
102 >            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
103 >            defined.
104 >          </p>
105 >          <h3>
106 >            Tuesday 26 April 2005
107 >          </h3>
108 >          <p>
109 >            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
110 >            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
111 >          </p>
112 >          <p>
113 >            Thanks to the work of
114 >            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
115 >            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
116 >            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
117 >            updated.
118 >          </p>
119 >          <h3>
120 >            Thursday 3 March 2005
121 >          </h3>
122 >          <p>
123 >            Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
124 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
125 >          </p>
126 >          <p>
127 >            This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
128 >            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
129 >            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
130 >            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
131 >            ignored. These have all been fixed.
132 >          </p>
133 >          <h3>
134 >            Friday 12 November 2004
135 >          </h3>
136 >          <p>
137 >            Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
138 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
139 >          </p>
140 >          <p>
141 >            This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
142 >            also fixes a few other minor issues.
143 >          </p>
144 >          <h3>
145 >            Wednesday 25 August 2004
146 >          </h3>
147 >          <p>
148 >            Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
149 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
150 >          </p>
151 >          <p>
152 >            This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
153 >            adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
154 >            the tarball for more details.
155 >          </p>
156 >          <h3>
157 >            Tuesday 27 July 2004
158 >          </h3>
159 >          <p>
160 >            Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
161 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
162 >          </p>
163 >          <p>
164 >            This release fixes a problem with the shared library
165 >            version number in the last release.
166 >          </p>
167 >          <h3>
168 >            Monday 26 July 2004
169 >          </h3>
170 >          <p>
171 >            Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
172 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
173 >          </p>
174 >          <p>
175 >            This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
176 >            We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
177 >            NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
178 >            that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
179 >            variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
180 >            suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
181 >            we've added error reporting functions that store errno
182 >            values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
183 >            NEWS file.
184 >          </p>
185 >          <h3>
186 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
187 >          </h3>
188 >          <p>
189 >            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
190 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
191 >          </p>
192 >          <p>
193 >            This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
194 >            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
195 >            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
196 >            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
197 >            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
198 >            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
199 >          </p>
200 >          <p>
201 >            The other main change in this release is a new function to
202 >            provide full details on currently running processes. See the
203 >            documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
204 >            this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
205 >            process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
206 >            error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
207 >            see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
208 >          </p>
209 >          <p>
210 >            Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
211 >            of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
212 >            bindings - they're now available as their own project called
213 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
214 >          </p>
215 >          <h3>
216 >            Sunday 21 March 2004
217 >          </h3>
218 >          <p>
219 >            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
220 >            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
221 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
222 >          </p>
223 >          <h2>
224 >            <a id="download">Downloading</a>
225 >          </h2>
226 >          <p>
227 >            The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
228 >            our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
229 >            All downloads are pgp signed using our
230 >            <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
231 >          </p>
232 >          <p>
233 >            For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
234 >            files contained within the archive.
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:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
255 >            can add a link here.
256 >          </p>
257 >          <h2>
258 >            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
259 >          </h2>
260 >          <ul>
261 >            <li>
262 >              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
263 >            </li>
264 >            <li>
265 >              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
266 >            </li>
267 >            <li>
268 >              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
269 >            </li>
270 >            <li>
271 >              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
272 >            </li>
273 >            <li>
274 >              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
275 >            </li>
276 >          </ul>
277 >          <p>
278 >            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
279 >            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
280 >            we've missed any out, please let us know.
281 >          </p>
282 >          <p>
283 >            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
284 >            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
285 >          </p>
286 >          <p>
287 >            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
288 >            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
289 >            it. You can find it
290 >            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
291 >            here</a>.
292 >          </p>
293 >          <h2>
294 >            <a id="development">Development</a>
295 >          </h2>
296 >          <ul>
297 >            <li>
298 >              <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
299 >            </li>
300 >          </ul>
301 >          <p>
302 >            We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
303 >            Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
304 >            For more information on our CVS setup see our
305 >            <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
306 >          </p>
307 >          <h2>
308 >            <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
309 >          </h2>
310 >          <p>
311 >            The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
312 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
313 >            best to start with the overview manual page:
314 >          </p>
315 >          <ul>
316 >            <li>
317 >              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
318 >            </li>
319 >          </ul>
320 >          <p>
321 >            Then we have the manual pages for each function:
322 >          </p>
323 >          <ul>
324 >            <li>
325 >              <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
326 >            </li>
327 >            <li>
328 >              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
329 >            </li>
330 >            <li>
331 >              <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
332 >            </li>
333 >            <li>
334 >              <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
335 >            </li>
336 >            <li>
337 >              <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
338 >            </li>
339 >            <li>
340 >              <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
341 >            </li>
342 >            <li>
343 >              <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
344 >            </li>
345 >            <li>
346 >              <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
347 >            </li>
348 >            <li>
349 >              <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
350 >            </li>
351 >            <li>
352 >              <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
353 >            </li>
354 >            <li>
355 >              <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
356 >            </li>
357 >          </ul>
358 >          <h2>
359 >            <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
360 >          </h2>
361 >          <p>
362 >            Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
363 >          </p>
364 >          <p>
365 >            <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
366 >          </p>
367 >        </div>
368 > <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
369 >      </div>
370 > <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
371 >    </div>
372 >  </body>
373   </html>

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