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15 < <h1 class="top">i-scream libstatgrab homepage</h1>
16 <
17 < <div id="topnav">
18 <  <ul>
19 <    <li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
20 <    <li><a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a></li>
21 <    <li><a href="#download">Downloading</a></li>
22 <    <li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
23 <    <li><a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a></li>
24 <  </ul>
25 < </div>
26 <
27 < <h2><a name="news">News</a></h2>
28 <
29 < <p>
30 < To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not subscribe
31 < to our project over on <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">
32 < freshmeat</a>?
33 < </p>
34 <
35 < <h3>Sunday 21 March 2004</h3>
36 < <p>
37 < pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python bindings,
38 < has been released. Check out it's <a href="/pystatgrab/">project
39 < page</a>.
40 < </p>
41 <
42 < <h3>Wednesday 10 March 2004</h3>
43 < <p>
44 < Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br/>
45 < Download it
46 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.9.tar.gz">here</a>.
47 < </p>
48 < <p>
49 < This release brings new features and new platforms. We've added
50 < information about network interfaces (duplex, speed, etc) along
51 < with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o errors, and
52 < collisions. Support has also been added for OpenBSD and DragonFly
53 < BSD. Finally some work has been done to reduce the platforms on
54 < which libstatgrab needs elevated privileges. See the NEWS file for
55 < more information.
56 < </p>
57 <
58 < <h3>Wednesday 11 February 2004</h3>
59 < <p>
60 < Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br/>
61 < Download it
62 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.2.tar.gz">here</a>.
63 < </p>
64 < <p>
65 < The main focus of this release is adding support for Solaris 6.
66 < We've also added Python bindings so you can use libstatgrab directly
67 < from Python (see the extras directory). Finally, we've tidied up a
68 < few bits of the code.
69 < </p>
70 <
71 < <h3>Wednesday 21 January 2004</h3>
72 < <p>
73 < Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br/>
74 < Download it
75 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
76 < </p>
77 < <p>
78 < This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file descriptor leak was
79 < fixed. On Solaris some significant speed increases were made to the
80 < disk mapping code, along with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms.
81 < Also, the library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
82 < released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
83 < </p>
84 <
85 < <h3>Tuesday 6 January 2004</h3>
86 < <p>
87 < Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br/>
88 < Download it
89 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">here</a>.
90 < </p>
91 < <p>
92 < This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial support for Cygwin.
93 < On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk names using cNtNdNsN names rather
94 < than the older sdN names. There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations
95 < in various places. Finally, a new function has been added to make it
96 < quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab may require on some
97 < operating systems.
98 < </p>
99 <
100 < <h3>Wednesday 22 October 2003</h3>
101 < <p>
102 < Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br/>
103 < Download it
104 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
105 < </p>
106 < <p>
107 < The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD
108 < 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise
109 < function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges
110 < libstatgrab needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
111 < and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.  Finally,
112 < saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the
113 < statistics.
114 < </p>
115 <
116 < <h3>Saturday 18 October 2003</h3>
117 < <p>
118 < Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br/>
119 < Download it
120 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
121 < </p>
122 < <p>
123 < This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some
124 < bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar,
125 < and statgrab.
126 < </p>
127 <
128 < <h3>Friday 10 October 2003</h3>
129 < <p>
130 < Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br/>
131 < You can download it from our mirror site
132 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
133 < </p>
134 < <p>
135 < This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
136 < 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
137 < packaging enhancements.
138 < </p>
139 <
140 < <h3>Tuesday 09 September 2003</h3>
141 < <p>
142 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br/>
143 < You can download version 0.5.1 from
144 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
145 < </p>
146 <
147 < <h3>Monday 25 August 2003</h3>
148 < <p>
149 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br/>
150 < You can download version 0.5 from
151 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
152 < </p>
153 < <p>
154 < This release provides both documentation and examples, which
155 < we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
156 < next release with some useful tools.
157 < </p>
158 <
159 < <h2><a name="what">What is libstatgrab?</a></h2>
160 <
161 < <p>
162 < libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
163 < statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
164 < presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
165 < key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
166 < usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
167 < traffic, disk I/O, and more.
168 < </p>
169 <
170 < <p>
171 < The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.2/2.4/2.6,
172 < FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x, DragonFly BSD 1.0, and
173 < Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to include as many operating
174 < systems as possible.
175 < </p>
176 <
177 < <p>
178 < The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first,
179 < <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to
180 < viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a
181 < sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
182 < extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything
183 < else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is
184 < a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a>
185 < configuration file to use statgrab.
186 < </p>
187 <
188 < <h2><a name="download">Downloading</a></h2>
189 <
190 < <p>
191 < The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
192 < primary download
193 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/">mirror</a>.
194 < All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
195 < </p>
196 <
197 < <p>
198 < For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
199 < contained within the archive. If you're using
200 < <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
201 < <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
202 < port to install libstatgrab for you.
203 < </p>
204 <
205 < <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
206 <
207 < <p>
208 < The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
209 < pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
210 < the overview manual page:
211 < </p>
212 <
213 < <ul>
214 < <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
215 < </ul>
216 <
217 < <p>
218 < Then we have the manual pages for each function:
219 < </p>
220 <
221 < <ul>
222 < <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
223 < <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
224 < <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
225 < <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
226 < <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
227 < <li><a href="get_network_iface_stats.html">get_network_iface_stats(3)</a></li>
228 < <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
229 < <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
230 < <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
231 < <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
232 < </ul>
233 <
234 < <h2><a name="screenshot">Screenshot</a></h2>
235 <
236 < <p>
237 < Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
238 < </p>
239 < <p>
240 < <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
241 < </p>
242 < </div>
243 <
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 >            Thursday 3 March 2005
54 >          </h3>
55 >          <p>
56 >            Version 0.11.1 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 fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
61 >            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
62 >            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
63 >            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
64 >            ignored. These have all been fixed.
65 >          </p>
66 >          <h3>
67 >            Friday 12 November 2004
68 >          </h3>
69 >          <p>
70 >            Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
71 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
72 >          </p>
73 >          <p>
74 >            This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
75 >            also fixes a few other minor issues.
76 >          </p>
77 >          <h3>
78 >            Wednesday 25 August 2004
79 >          </h3>
80 >          <p>
81 >            Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
82 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
83 >          </p>
84 >          <p>
85 >            This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
86 >            adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
87 >            the tarball for more details.
88 >          </p>
89 >          <h3>
90 >            Tuesday 27 July 2004
91 >          </h3>
92 >          <p>
93 >            Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
94 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
95 >          </p>
96 >          <p>
97 >            This release fixes a problem with the shared library
98 >            version number in the last release.
99 >          </p>
100 >          <h3>
101 >            Monday 26 July 2004
102 >          </h3>
103 >          <p>
104 >            Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
105 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
106 >          </p>
107 >          <p>
108 >            This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
109 >            We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
110 >            NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
111 >            that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
112 >            variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
113 >            suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
114 >            we've added error reporting functions that store errno
115 >            values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
116 >            NEWS file.
117 >          </p>
118 >          <h3>
119 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
120 >          </h3>
121 >          <p>
122 >            Version 0.10 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 concentrates heavily on standardising the names
127 >            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
128 >            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
129 >            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
130 >            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
131 >            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
132 >          </p>
133 >          <p>
134 >            The other main change in this release is a new function to
135 >            provide full details on currently running processes. See the
136 >            documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
137 >            this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
138 >            process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
139 >            error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
140 >            see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
141 >          </p>
142 >          <p>
143 >            Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
144 >            of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
145 >            bindings - they're now available as their own project called
146 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
147 >          </p>
148 >          <h3>
149 >            Sunday 21 March 2004
150 >          </h3>
151 >          <p>
152 >            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
153 >            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
154 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
155 >          </p>
156 >          <h2>
157 >            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
158 >          </h2>
159 >          <p>
160 >            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
161 >            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
162 >            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
163 >            interfaces which can be used to access key system
164 >            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
165 >            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
166 >            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
167 >          </p>
168 >          <p>
169 >            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
170 >            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
171 >            DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
172 >            this to include as many operating systems as possible.
173 >          </p>
174 >          <p>
175 >            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
176 >            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
177 >            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
178 >            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
179 >            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
180 >            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
181 >            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
182 >            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
183 >            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
184 >            to use statgrab.
185 >          </p>
186 >          <h2>
187 >            <a id="download">Downloading</a>
188 >          </h2>
189 >          <p>
190 >            The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
191 >            our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
192 >            All downloads are pgp signed using our
193 >            <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
194 >          </p>
195 >          <p>
196 >            For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
197 >            files contained within the archive.
198 >          </p>
199 >          <h2>
200 >            <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
201 >          </h2>
202 >          <ul>
203 >            <li>
204 >              <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
205 >            </li>
206 >            <li>
207 >              <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
208 >            </li>
209 >            <li>
210 >              <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
211 >            </li>
212 >          </ul>
213 >          <p>
214 >            Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
215 >            that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
216 >            a binding for another language, please get
217 >            <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
218 >            can add a link here.
219 >          </p>
220 >          <h2>
221 >            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
222 >          </h2>
223 >          <ul>
224 >            <li>
225 >              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
226 >            </li>
227 >            <li>
228 >              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
229 >            </li>
230 >            <li>
231 >              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
232 >            </li>
233 >            <li>
234 >              <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/packages/debian/">Debian (unofficial)</a>
235 >            </li>
236 >            <li>
237 >              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
238 >            </li>
239 >          </ul>
240 >          <p>
241 >            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
242 >            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
243 >            we've missed any out, please let us know.
244 >          </p>
245 >          <p>
246 >            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
247 >            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
248 >          </p>
249 >          <p>
250 >            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
251 >            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
252 >            it. You can find it
253 >            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
254 >            here</a>.
255 >          </p>
256 >          <h2>
257 >            <a id="development">Development</a>
258 >          </h2>
259 >          <ul>
260 >            <li>
261 >              <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
262 >            </li>
263 >          </ul>
264 >          <p>
265 >            We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
266 >            Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
267 >            For more information on our CVS setup see our
268 >            <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
269 >          </p>
270 >          <h2>
271 >            <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
272 >          </h2>
273 >          <p>
274 >            The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
275 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
276 >            best to start with the overview manual page:
277 >          </p>
278 >          <ul>
279 >            <li>
280 >              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
281 >            </li>
282 >          </ul>
283 >          <p>
284 >            Then we have the manual pages for each function:
285 >          </p>
286 >          <ul>
287 >            <li>
288 >              <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
289 >            </li>
290 >            <li>
291 >              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
292 >            </li>
293 >            <li>
294 >              <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
295 >            </li>
296 >            <li>
297 >              <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
298 >            </li>
299 >            <li>
300 >              <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
301 >            </li>
302 >            <li>
303 >              <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
304 >            </li>
305 >            <li>
306 >              <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
307 >            </li>
308 >            <li>
309 >              <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
310 >            </li>
311 >            <li>
312 >              <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
313 >            </li>
314 >            <li>
315 >              <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
316 >            </li>
317 >            <li>
318 >              <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
319 >            </li>
320 >          </ul>
321 >          <h2>
322 >            <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
323 >          </h2>
324 >          <p>
325 >            Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
326 >          </p>
327 >          <p>
328 >            <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
329 >          </p>
330 >        </div>
331   <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
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250 <
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333   <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
334 <
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254 <
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