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3      <title>
4 <      i-scream libstatgrab homepage
4 >      libstatgrab homepage
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12          <div id="contents">
13            <h1 class="top">
14 <            i-scream libstatgrab homepage
14 >            libstatgrab homepage
15            </h1>
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 supported and tested platforms
58 +            includes FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris,
59 +            DragonFly BSD, HP-UX and AIX. We are always happy to
60 +            accept patches to extend support to other operating
61 +            systems.
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 +          <h3>
79 +            Thursday 8 August 2013
80 +          </h3>
81            <p>
82 <            To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
83 <            subscribe to our project over on
84 <            <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
82 >            Version 0.90 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
83 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
84 >            Please note this and future releases are signed with a new
85 >            <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP key</a>.
86            </p>
87 +          <p>
88 +            Please note that the API in 0.90 has changed, so
89 +            applications using libstatgrab will need to be updated to
90 +            support the changes.
91 +          </p>
92 +          <p>
93 +            There are a large number of changes in this version of
94 +            libstatgrab. Here is an overview:
95 +          </p>
96 +          <ul>
97 +            <li>Thread safety and reentrant functions.</li>
98 +            <li>API unification (every stats call is now able to
99 +                return multiple entries).</li>
100 +            <li>Complete rewrite of internal memory management (eases
101 +                future extensions).</li>
102 +            <li>Add experimental support for tracing using log4cplus.</li>
103 +            <li>Complete the ports for AIX, HP-UX and most of the
104 +                widely used BSD-based operating systems.</li>
105 +            <li>Complete the port for Darwin/MacOS X including basic
106 +                Mach.</li>
107 +            <li>Clean up the FreeBSD and Solaris implementations.</li>
108 +            <li>Clean up the FreeBSD and Solaris implementations.</li>
109 +          </ul>
110 +          <p>
111 +            This release is the result of a significant amount of work
112 +            by the newest member of the libstatgrab team - Jens
113 +            Rehsack. Welcome to the team Jens!
114 +          </p>
115 +          <p>
116 +            If you find any bugs in the release please report them
117 +            over at our
118 +            <a href="https://github.com/i-scream/libstatgrab/issues">Issue
119 +            Tracker</a> on GitHub.
120 +          </p>
121            <h3>
122 +            Sunday 21 February 2010
123 +          </h3>
124 +          <p>
125 +            Version 0.17 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
126 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
127 +          </p>
128 +          <p>
129 +            This release adds support for FreeBSD 9 and other systems
130 +            using utmpx. Also on FreeBSD it fixes an issue with large
131 +            quantities of memory and adds support for dynamically
132 +            getting a list of supported file systems. On Solaris ZFS
133 +            file systems will now be detected. And finally on Linux CPU
134 +            iowait information will be given where available.
135 +          </p>
136 +          <h3>
137 +            Friday 30 May 2008
138 +          </h3>
139 +          <p>
140 +            Dag Odenhall got in touch today to let us know he's written
141 +            <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a>
142 +            for libstatgrab. Thanks Dag!
143 +          </p>
144 +          <h3>
145 +            Monday 17 March 2008
146 +          </h3>
147 +          <p>
148 +            Version 0.16 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
149 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
150 +          </p>
151 +          <p>
152 +            This release fixes some minor build problems on Solaris
153 +            with Sun's compiler, and on the Debian "armel" port. Also
154 +            a minor fix to statgrab-make-mrtg-config on machines with
155 +            no swap, and added support for FreeBSD 8.
156 +          </p>
157 +          <h3>
158 +            Saturday 14 July 2007
159 +          </h3>
160 +          <p>
161 +            Version 0.15 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
162 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
163 +          </p>
164 +          <p>
165 +            This release fixes a regression introduced on OpenBSD in
166 +            the last release - memory statistics were reported
167 +            incorrectly. Some other minor changes have been made, see
168 +            the NEWS file for more information.
169 +          </p>
170 +          <h3>
171 +            Monday 8 January 2007
172 +          </h3>
173 +          <p>
174 +            Version 0.14 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
175 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
176 +          </p>
177 +          <p>
178 +            This release contains mainly bugfixes - see the NEWS file
179 +            in the distribution for a full list. It also brings a new
180 +            feature in saidar: colour support, which can be activated
181 +            with the -c runtime flag.
182 +          </p>
183 +          <h3>
184 +            Monday 20 March 2006
185 +          </h3>
186 +          <p>
187 +            Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
188 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
189 +          </p>
190 +          <p>
191 +            This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
192 +            also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
193 +            added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
194 +            easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
195 +            full details.
196 +          </p>
197 +          <h3>
198 +            Sunday 31 July 2005
199 +          </h3>
200 +          <p>
201 +            Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
202 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
203 +          </p>
204 +          <p>
205 +            This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
206 +            API change. More details have been added to the file
207 +            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
208 +            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
209 +            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
210 +            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
211 +          </p>
212 +          <p>
213 +            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
214 +            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
215 +            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
216 +            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
217 +            defined.
218 +          </p>
219 +          <h3>
220 +            Tuesday 26 April 2005
221 +          </h3>
222 +          <p>
223 +            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
224 +            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
225 +          </p>
226 +          <p>
227 +            Thanks to the work of
228 +            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
229 +            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
230 +            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
231 +            updated.
232 +          </p>
233 +          <h3>
234              Thursday 3 March 2005
235            </h3>
236            <p>
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331            </h3>
332            <p>
333              pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
334 <            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
334 >            bindings, has been released. Check out its
335              <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
336            </p>
337            <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>
338              <a id="download">Downloading</a>
339            </h2>
340            <p>
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355                <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
356              </li>
357              <li>
358 <              <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
358 >              <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP</a>
359              </li>
360              <li>
361 <              <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
361 >              <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl</a>
362              </li>
363 +            <li>
364 +              <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby</a>
365 +            </li>
366            </ul>
367            <p>
368              Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
369              that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
370 <            a binding for another language, please get
217 <            <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
370 >            a binding for another language, please get in touch so we
371              can add a link here.
372            </p>
373            <h2>
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378                <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
379              </li>
380              <li>
381 <              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
381 >              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
382              </li>
383              <li>
384                <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
385              </li>
386              <li>
387 <              <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/packages/debian/">Debian (unofficial)</a>
387 >              <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
388              </li>
389              <li>
390 +              <a href="http://www.opencsw.org/packages/libstatgrab/">Solaris (OpenCSW)</a>
391 +            </li>
392 +            <li>
393 +              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
394 +            </li>
395 +            <li>
396                <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
397              </li>
398 +            <li>
399 +              <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/anagappan/">RPMs for various Linux distributions</a>
400 +            </li>
401 +            <li>
402 +              <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/libstatgrab/">OpenBSD</a>
403 +            </li>
404            </ul>
405            <p>
406              These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
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408              we've missed any out, please let us know.
409            </p>
410            <p>
411 <            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
411 >            We've noticed that Google throws up some RPM's relating
412              to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
413            </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>
414            <h2>
415 <            <a id="development">Development</a>
415 >            <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
416            </h2>
417 +          <p>
418 +            The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
419 +            manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
420 +            manual pages for the command line tools:
421 +          </p>
422            <ul>
423              <li>
424 <              <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
424 >              <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
425              </li>
426 +            <li>
427 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
428 +            </li>
429 +            <li>
430 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
431 +            </li>
432 +            <li>
433 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
434 +            </li>
435            </ul>
436            <p>
437 <            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>.
437 >            We also have an overview page for the library:
438            </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>
439            <ul>
440              <li>
441 <              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
441 >              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
442              </li>
443            </ul>
444            <p>
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446            </p>
447            <ul>
448              <li>
449 <              <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
449 >              <a href="docs/sg_comp_init.3.html">sg_comp_init(3)</a>
450              </li>
451              <li>
452 <              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
452 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
453              </li>
454              <li>
455 <              <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
455 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
456              </li>
457              <li>
458 <              <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
458 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_error.3.html">sg_get_error(3)</a>
459              </li>
460              <li>
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