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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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42              </ul>
43            </div>
44            <h2>
45 +            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
46 +          </h2>
47 +          <p>
48 +            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
49 +            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
50 +            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
51 +            interfaces which can be used to access key system
52 +            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
53 +            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
54 +            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
55 +          </p>
56 +          <p>
57 +            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
58 +            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
59 +            DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
60 +            this to include as many operating systems as possible.
61 +          </p>
62 +          <p>
63 +            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
64 +            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
65 +            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
66 +            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
67 +            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
68 +            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
69 +            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
70 +            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
71 +            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
72 +            to use statgrab.
73 +          </p>
74 +          <h2>
75              <a id="news">News</a>
76            </h2>
77            <p>
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80              <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
81            </p>
82            <h3>
83 +            Sunday 31 July 2005
84 +          </h3>
85 +          <p>
86 +            Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
87 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
88 +          </p>
89 +          <p>
90 +            This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
91 +            API change. More details have been added to the file
92 +            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
93 +            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
94 +            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
95 +            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
96 +          </p>
97 +          <p>
98 +            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
99 +            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
100 +            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
101 +            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
102 +            defined.
103 +          </p>
104 +          <h3>
105 +            Tuesday 26 April 2005
106 +          </h3>
107 +          <p>
108 +            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
109 +            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
110 +          </p>
111 +          <p>
112 +            Thanks to the work of
113 +            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
114 +            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
115 +            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
116 +            updated.
117 +          </p>
118 +          <h3>
119 +            Thursday 3 March 2005
120 +          </h3>
121 +          <p>
122 +            Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
123 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
124 +          </p>
125 +          <p>
126 +            This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
127 +            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
128 +            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
129 +            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
130 +            ignored. These have all been fixed.
131 +          </p>
132 +          <h3>
133              Friday 12 November 2004
134            </h3>
135            <p>
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219              bindings, has been released. Check out it's
220              <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
221            </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>
222            <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>
223              <a id="download">Downloading</a>
224            </h2>
225            <p>
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250              Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
251              that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
252              a binding for another language, please get
253 <            <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
253 >            <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
254              can add a link here.
255            </p>
256            <h2>
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267                <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
268              </li>
269              <li>
270 <              <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/packages/debian/">Debian (unofficial)</a>
270 >              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
271              </li>
272              <li>
273                <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
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287              OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
288              it. You can find it
289              <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
290 <            here.
290 >            here</a>.
291            </p>
292            <h2>
293              <a id="development">Development</a>

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