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25 <
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 < <b>Wednesday 22 October 2003</b><br><br>
40 < Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
41 < Download it
42 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
43 < The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD
44 < 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise
45 < function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges
46 < libstatgrab needs on BSD platforms. The list of known file systems has
47 < been increased, and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.
48 < Finally, saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the
49 < statistics.
50 < </p>
51 <
52 < <p>
53 < <b>Saturday 18 October 2003</b><br><br>
54 < Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
55 < Download it
56 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
57 < This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some
58 < bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar,
59 < and statgrab.
60 < </p>
61 <
62 < <p>
63 < <b>Friday 10 October 2003</b><br><br>
64 < Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
65 < You can download it from our mirror site
66 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
67 < This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
68 < 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
69 < packaging enhancements.
70 < </p>
71 <
72 < <p>
73 < <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
74 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
75 < You can download version 0.5.1 from
76 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
77 < </p>
78 <
79 < <p>
80 < <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
81 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
82 < You can download version 0.5 from
83 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
84 < This release provides both documentation and examples, which
85 < we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
86 < next release with some useful tools.
87 < </p>
88 <
89 < <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
90 <
91 < <p>
92 < libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
93 < statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
94 < presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
95 < key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
96 < usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
97 < traffic, disk I/O, and more.
98 < </p>
99 <
100 < <p>
101 < The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD
102 < 4.x/5.x, and NetBSD 1.6.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many
103 < operating systems as possible.
104 < </p>
105 <
106 < <p>
107 < The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first,
108 < <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to
109 < viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a
110 < sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
111 < extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything
112 < else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is
113 < a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a>
114 < configuration file to use statgrab.
115 < </p>
116 <
117 < <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
118 <
119 < <p>
120 < The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
121 < primary download
122 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
123 < All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
124 < </p>
125 <
126 < <p>
127 < For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
128 < contained within the archive. If you're using
129 < <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
130 < <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
131 < port to install libstatgrab for you.
132 < </p>
133 <
134 < <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
135 <
136 < <p>
137 < The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
138 < pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
139 < the overview manual page:
140 <
141 < <ul>
142 < <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
143 < </ul>
144 < </p>
145 <
146 < <p>
147 < Then we have the manual pages for each function:
148 <
149 < <ul>
150 < <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
151 < <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
152 < <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
153 < <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
154 < <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
155 < <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
156 < <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
157 < <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
158 < <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
159 < </ul>
160 < </p>
161 <
162 < <a name="screenshot"><h2>Screenshot</h2></a>
163 <
164 < <p>
165 < Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
166 < </p>
167 < <p>
168 < <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot">
169 < </p>
170 <
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2 >  <head>
3 >    <title>
4 >      i-scream libstatgrab homepage
5 >    </title>
6 > <!--#include virtual="/style.inc" -->
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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="#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="#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 >          <h2>
45 >            <a id="news">News</a>
46 >          </h2>
47 >          <p>
48 >            To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
49 >            subscribe to our project over on
50 >            <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
51 >          </p>
52 >          <h3>
53 >            Friday 12 November 2004
54 >          </h3>
55 >          <p>
56 >            Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
57 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
58 >          </p>
59 >          <p>
60 >            This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
61 >            also fixes a few other minor issues.
62 >          </p>
63 >          <h3>
64 >            Wednesday 25 August 2004
65 >          </h3>
66 >          <p>
67 >            Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
68 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
69 >          </p>
70 >          <p>
71 >            This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
72 >            adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
73 >            the tarball for more details.
74 >          </p>
75 >          <h3>
76 >            Tuesday 27 July 2004
77 >          </h3>
78 >          <p>
79 >            Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
80 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
81 >          </p>
82 >          <p>
83 >            This release fixes a problem with the shared library
84 >            version number in the last release.
85 >          </p>
86 >          <h3>
87 >            Monday 26 July 2004
88 >          </h3>
89 >          <p>
90 >            Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
91 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
92 >          </p>
93 >          <p>
94 >            This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
95 >            We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
96 >            NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
97 >            that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
98 >            variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
99 >            suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
100 >            we've added error reporting functions that store errno
101 >            values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
102 >            NEWS file.
103 >          </p>
104 >          <h3>
105 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
106 >          </h3>
107 >          <p>
108 >            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
109 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
110 >          </p>
111 >          <p>
112 >            This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
113 >            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
114 >            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
115 >            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
116 >            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
117 >            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
118 >          </p>
119 >          <p>
120 >            The other main change in this release is a new function to
121 >            provide full details on currently running processes. See the
122 >            documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
123 >            this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
124 >            process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
125 >            error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
126 >            see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
127 >          </p>
128 >          <p>
129 >            Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
130 >            of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
131 >            bindings - they're now available as their own project called
132 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
133 >          </p>
134 >          <h3>
135 >            Sunday 21 March 2004
136 >          </h3>
137 >          <p>
138 >            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
139 >            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
140 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
141 >          </p>
142 >          <h3>
143 >            Wednesday 10 March 2004
144 >          </h3>
145 >          <p>
146 >            Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
147 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
148 >          </p>
149 >          <p>
150 >            This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
151 >            added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
152 >            etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
153 >            errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
154 >            OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
155 >            to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
156 >            privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
157 >          </p>
158 >          <h3>
159 >            Wednesday 11 February 2004
160 >          </h3>
161 >          <p>
162 >            Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
163 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
164 >          </p>
165 >          <p>
166 >            The main focus of this release is adding support for
167 >            Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
168 >            libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
169 >            directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
170 >            code.
171 >          </p>
172 >          <h3>
173 >            Wednesday 21 January 2004
174 >          </h3>
175 >          <p>
176 >            Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
177 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
178 >          </p>
179 >          <p>
180 >            This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
181 >            descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
182 >            speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
183 >            with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
184 >            library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
185 >            released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
186 >          </p>
187 >          <h3>
188 >            Tuesday 6 January 2004
189 >          </h3>
190 >          <p>
191 >            Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
192 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
193 >          </p>
194 >          <p>
195 >            This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
196 >            support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
197 >            names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
198 >            There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
199 >            various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
200 >            make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
201 >            may require on some operating systems.
202 >          </p>
203 >          <h2>
204 >            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
205 >          </h2>
206 >          <p>
207 >            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
208 >            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
209 >            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
210 >            interfaces which can be used to access key system
211 >            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
212 >            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
213 >            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
214 >          </p>
215 >          <p>
216 >            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
217 >            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
218 >            DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
219 >            this to include as many operating systems as possible.
220 >          </p>
221 >          <p>
222 >            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
223 >            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
224 >            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
225 >            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
226 >            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
227 >            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
228 >            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
229 >            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
230 >            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
231 >            to use statgrab.
232 >          </p>
233 >          <h2>
234 >            <a id="download">Downloading</a>
235 >          </h2>
236 >          <p>
237 >            The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
238 >            our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
239 >            All downloads are pgp signed using our
240 >            <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
241 >          </p>
242 >          <p>
243 >            For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
244 >            files contained within the archive.
245 >          </p>
246 >          <h2>
247 >            <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
248 >          </h2>
249 >          <ul>
250 >            <li>
251 >              <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
252 >            </li>
253 >            <li>
254 >              <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
255 >            </li>
256 >            <li>
257 >              <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
258 >            </li>
259 >          </ul>
260 >          <p>
261 >            Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
262 >            that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
263 >            a binding for another language, please get
264 >            <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
265 >            can add a link here.
266 >          </p>
267 >          <h2>
268 >            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
269 >          </h2>
270 >          <ul>
271 >            <li>
272 >              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
273 >            </li>
274 >            <li>
275 >              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
276 >            </li>
277 >            <li>
278 >              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
279 >            </li>
280 >            <li>
281 >              <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/packages/debian/">Debian (unofficial)</a>
282 >            </li>
283 >            <li>
284 >              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
285 >            </li>
286 >          </ul>
287 >          <p>
288 >            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
289 >            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
290 >            we've missed any out, please let us know.
291 >          </p>
292 >          <p>
293 >            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
294 >            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
295 >          </p>
296 >          <p>
297 >            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
298 >            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
299 >            it. You can find it
300 >            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
301 >            here.
302 >          </p>
303 >          <h2>
304 >            <a id="development">Development</a>
305 >          </h2>
306 >          <ul>
307 >            <li>
308 >              <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
309 >            </li>
310 >          </ul>
311 >          <p>
312 >            We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
313 >            Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
314 >            For more information on our CVS setup see our
315 >            <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
316 >          </p>
317 >          <h2>
318 >            <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
319 >          </h2>
320 >          <p>
321 >            The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
322 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
323 >            best to start with the overview manual page:
324 >          </p>
325 >          <ul>
326 >            <li>
327 >              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
328 >            </li>
329 >          </ul>
330 >          <p>
331 >            Then we have the manual pages for each function:
332 >          </p>
333 >          <ul>
334 >            <li>
335 >              <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
336 >            </li>
337 >            <li>
338 >              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
339 >            </li>
340 >            <li>
341 >              <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
342 >            </li>
343 >            <li>
344 >              <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
345 >            </li>
346 >            <li>
347 >              <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
348 >            </li>
349 >            <li>
350 >              <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
351 >            </li>
352 >            <li>
353 >              <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
354 >            </li>
355 >            <li>
356 >              <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
357 >            </li>
358 >            <li>
359 >              <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
360 >            </li>
361 >            <li>
362 >              <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
363 >            </li>
364 >            <li>
365 >              <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
366 >            </li>
367 >          </ul>
368 >          <h2>
369 >            <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
370 >          </h2>
371 >          <p>
372 >            Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
373 >          </p>
374 >          <p>
375 >            <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
376 >          </p>
377 >        </div>
378 > <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
379 >      </div>
380 > <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
381 >    </div>
382 >  </body>
383   </html>

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