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16            <div id="topnav">
17              <ul>
18                <li>
19 <                <a href="#news">News</a>
19 >                <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
20                </li>
21                <li>
22 <                <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
22 >                <a href="#news">News</a>
23                </li>
24                <li>
25                  <a href="#download">Downloading</a>
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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>
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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>
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81              <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
82            </p>
83            <h3>
84 +            Monday 8 January 2007
85 +          </h3>
86 +          <p>
87 +            Version 0.14 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 contains mainly bugfixes - see the NEWS file
92 +            in the distribution for a full list. It also brings a new
93 +            feature in saidar: colour support, which can be activated
94 +            with the -c runtime flag.
95 +          </p>
96 +          <h3>
97 +            Monday 20 March 2006
98 +          </h3>
99 +          <p>
100 +            Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
101 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
102 +          </p>
103 +          <p>
104 +            This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
105 +            also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
106 +            added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
107 +            easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
108 +            full details.
109 +          </p>
110 +          <h3>
111 +            Sunday 31 July 2005
112 +          </h3>
113 +          <p>
114 +            Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
115 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
116 +          </p>
117 +          <p>
118 +            This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
119 +            API change. More details have been added to the file
120 +            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
121 +            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
122 +            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
123 +            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
124 +          </p>
125 +          <p>
126 +            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
127 +            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
128 +            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
129 +            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
130 +            defined.
131 +          </p>
132 +          <h3>
133 +            Tuesday 26 April 2005
134 +          </h3>
135 +          <p>
136 +            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
137 +            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
138 +          </p>
139 +          <p>
140 +            Thanks to the work of
141 +            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
142 +            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
143 +            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
144 +            updated.
145 +          </p>
146 +          <h3>
147 +            Thursday 3 March 2005
148 +          </h3>
149 +          <p>
150 +            Version 0.11.1 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 fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
155 +            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
156 +            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
157 +            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
158 +            ignored. These have all been fixed.
159 +          </p>
160 +          <h3>
161 +            Friday 12 November 2004
162 +          </h3>
163 +          <p>
164 +            Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
165 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
166 +          </p>
167 +          <p>
168 +            This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
169 +            also fixes a few other minor issues.
170 +          </p>
171 +          <h3>
172 +            Wednesday 25 August 2004
173 +          </h3>
174 +          <p>
175 +            Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
176 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
177 +          </p>
178 +          <p>
179 +            This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
180 +            adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
181 +            the tarball for more details.
182 +          </p>
183 +          <h3>
184              Tuesday 27 July 2004
185            </h3>
186            <p>
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244            </h3>
245            <p>
246              pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
247 <            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
247 >            bindings, has been released. Check out its
248              <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
249            </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>
250            <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>
251              <a id="download">Downloading</a>
252            </h2>
253            <p>
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258            </p>
259            <p>
260              For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
261 <            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.
261 >            files contained within the archive.
262            </p>
263            <h2>
264              <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
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278              Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
279              that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
280              a binding for another language, please get
281 <            <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
281 >            <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
282              can add a link here.
283            </p>
284            <h2>
285 +            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
286 +          </h2>
287 +          <ul>
288 +            <li>
289 +              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
290 +            </li>
291 +            <li>
292 +              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
293 +            </li>
294 +            <li>
295 +              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
296 +            </li>
297 +            <li>
298 +              <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
299 +            </li>
300 +            <li>
301 +              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
302 +            </li>
303 +            <li>
304 +              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
305 +            </li>
306 +          </ul>
307 +          <p>
308 +            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
309 +            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
310 +            we've missed any out, please let us know.
311 +          </p>
312 +          <p>
313 +            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
314 +            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
315 +          </p>
316 +          <p>
317 +            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
318 +            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
319 +            it. You can find it
320 +            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
321 +            here</a>.
322 +          </p>
323 +          <h2>
324              <a id="development">Development</a>
325            </h2>
326            <ul>
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339            </h2>
340            <p>
341              The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
342 <            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
343 <            best to start with the overview manual page:
342 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
343 >            manual pages for the command line tools:
344            </p>
345            <ul>
346              <li>
347 <              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
347 >              <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
348              </li>
349 +            <li>
350 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
351 +            </li>
352 +            <li>
353 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
354 +            </li>
355 +            <li>
356 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
357 +            </li>
358            </ul>
359            <p>
360 +            We also have an overview page for the library:
361 +          </p>
362 +          <ul>
363 +            <li>
364 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
365 +            </li>
366 +          </ul>
367 +          <p>
368              Then we have the manual pages for each function:
369            </p>
370            <ul>
371              <li>
372 <              <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
372 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
373              </li>
374              <li>
375 <              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
375 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
376              </li>
377              <li>
378 <              <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
378 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
379              </li>
380              <li>
381 <              <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
381 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
382              </li>
383              <li>
384 <              <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
384 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
385              </li>
386              <li>
387 <              <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
387 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
388              </li>
389              <li>
390 <              <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
390 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
391              </li>
392              <li>
393 <              <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
393 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
394              </li>
395              <li>
396 <              <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
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