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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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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 +            Sunday 21 February 2010
85 +          </h3>
86 +          <p>
87 +            Version 0.17 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 adds support for FreeBSD 9 and other systems
92 +            using utmpx. Also on FreeBSD it fixes an issue with large
93 +            quantities of memory and adds support for dynamically
94 +            getting a list of supported file systems. On Solaris ZFS
95 +            file systems will now be detected. And finally on Linux CPU
96 +            iowait information will be given where available.
97 +          </p>
98 +          <h3>
99 +            Friday 30 May 2008
100 +          </h3>
101 +          <p>
102 +            Dag Odenhall got in touch today to let us know he's written
103 +            <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a>
104 +            for libstatgrab. Thanks Dag!
105 +          </p>
106 +          <h3>
107 +            Monday 17 March 2008
108 +          </h3>
109 +          <p>
110 +            Version 0.16 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
111 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
112 +          </p>
113 +          <p>
114 +            This release fixes some minor build problems on Solaris
115 +            with Sun's compiler, and on the Debian "armel" port. Also
116 +            a minor fix to statgrab-make-mrtg-config on machines with
117 +            no swap, and added support for FreeBSD 8.
118 +          </p>
119 +          <h3>
120 +            Saturday 14 July 2007
121 +          </h3>
122 +          <p>
123 +            Version 0.15 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 regression introduced on OpenBSD in
128 +            the last release - memory statistics were reported
129 +            incorrectly. Some other minor changes have been made, see
130 +            the NEWS file for more information.
131 +          </p>
132 +          <h3>
133 +            Monday 8 January 2007
134 +          </h3>
135 +          <p>
136 +            Version 0.14 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
137 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
138 +          </p>
139 +          <p>
140 +            This release contains mainly bugfixes - see the NEWS file
141 +            in the distribution for a full list. It also brings a new
142 +            feature in saidar: colour support, which can be activated
143 +            with the -c runtime flag.
144 +          </p>
145 +          <h3>
146 +            Monday 20 March 2006
147 +          </h3>
148 +          <p>
149 +            Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
150 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
151 +          </p>
152 +          <p>
153 +            This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
154 +            also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
155 +            added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
156 +            easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
157 +            full details.
158 +          </p>
159 +          <h3>
160 +            Sunday 31 July 2005
161 +          </h3>
162 +          <p>
163 +            Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
164 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
165 +          </p>
166 +          <p>
167 +            This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
168 +            API change. More details have been added to the file
169 +            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
170 +            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
171 +            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
172 +            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
173 +          </p>
174 +          <p>
175 +            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
176 +            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
177 +            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
178 +            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
179 +            defined.
180 +          </p>
181 +          <h3>
182 +            Tuesday 26 April 2005
183 +          </h3>
184 +          <p>
185 +            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
186 +            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
187 +          </p>
188 +          <p>
189 +            Thanks to the work of
190 +            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
191 +            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
192 +            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
193 +            updated.
194 +          </p>
195 +          <h3>
196 +            Thursday 3 March 2005
197 +          </h3>
198 +          <p>
199 +            Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
200 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
201 +          </p>
202 +          <p>
203 +            This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
204 +            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
205 +            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
206 +            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
207 +            ignored. These have all been fixed.
208 +          </p>
209 +          <h3>
210              Friday 12 November 2004
211            </h3>
212            <p>
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293            </h3>
294            <p>
295              pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
296 <            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
296 >            bindings, has been released. Check out its
297              <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
298            </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>
299            <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>
300              <a id="download">Downloading</a>
301            </h2>
302            <p>
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317                <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
318              </li>
319              <li>
320 <              <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
320 >              <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP</a>
321              </li>
322              <li>
323 <              <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
323 >              <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl</a>
324              </li>
325 +            <li>
326 +              <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby</a>
327 +            </li>
328            </ul>
329            <p>
330              Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
331              that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
332              a binding for another language, please get
333 <            <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
333 >            <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
334              can add a link here.
335            </p>
336            <h2>
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338            </h2>
339            <ul>
340              <li>
341 <              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
341 >              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
342              </li>
343              <li>
344 <              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
344 >              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
345              </li>
346              <li>
347                <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
348              </li>
349              <li>
350 <              <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/packages/debian/">Debian (unofficial)</a>
350 >              <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
351              </li>
352              <li>
353 +              <a href="http://www.opencsw.org/packages/libstatgrab/">Solaris (OpenCSW)</a>
354 +            </li>
355 +            <li>
356 +              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
357 +            </li>
358 +            <li>
359                <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
360              </li>
361 +            <li>
362 +              <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/anagappan/">RPMs for various Linux distributions</a>
363 +            </li>
364 +            <li>
365 +              <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/libstatgrab/">OpenBSD</a>
366 +            </li>
367            </ul>
368            <p>
369              These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
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374              We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
375              to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
376            </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>
377            <h2>
378              <a id="development">Development</a>
379            </h2>
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393            </h2>
394            <p>
395              The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
396 <            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
397 <            best to start with the overview manual page:
396 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
397 >            manual pages for the command line tools:
398            </p>
399            <ul>
400              <li>
401 <              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
401 >              <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
402              </li>
403 +            <li>
404 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
405 +            </li>
406 +            <li>
407 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
408 +            </li>
409 +            <li>
410 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
411 +            </li>
412            </ul>
413            <p>
414 +            We also have an overview page for the library:
415 +          </p>
416 +          <ul>
417 +            <li>
418 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
419 +            </li>
420 +          </ul>
421 +          <p>
422              Then we have the manual pages for each function:
423            </p>
424            <ul>
425              <li>
426 <              <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
426 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
427              </li>
428              <li>
429 <              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
429 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
430              </li>
431              <li>
432 <              <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
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438 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
439              </li>
440              <li>
441 <              <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
441 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
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447 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
448              </li>
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450 <              <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
450 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
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