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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. The list of known file systems has been increased,
47 < and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.  Finally,
48 < 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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1 > <!--#include virtual="/doctype.inc" -->
2 >  <head>
3 >    <title>
4 >      i-scream libstatgrab homepage
5 >    </title>
6 > <!--#include virtual="/style.inc" -->
7 >  </head>
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="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
20 >              </li>
21 >              <li>
22 >                <a href="#news">News</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="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>
78 >            To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
79 >            subscribe to our project over on
80 >            <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
81 >          </p>
82 >          <h3>
83 >            Thursday 3 March 2005
84 >          </h3>
85 >          <p>
86 >            Version 0.11.1 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 fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
91 >            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
92 >            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
93 >            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
94 >            ignored. These have all been fixed.
95 >          </p>
96 >          <h3>
97 >            Friday 12 November 2004
98 >          </h3>
99 >          <p>
100 >            Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
101 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
102 >          </p>
103 >          <p>
104 >            This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
105 >            also fixes a few other minor issues.
106 >          </p>
107 >          <h3>
108 >            Wednesday 25 August 2004
109 >          </h3>
110 >          <p>
111 >            Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
112 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
113 >          </p>
114 >          <p>
115 >            This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
116 >            adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
117 >            the tarball for more details.
118 >          </p>
119 >          <h3>
120 >            Tuesday 27 July 2004
121 >          </h3>
122 >          <p>
123 >            Version 0.10.2 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 problem with the shared library
128 >            version number in the last release.
129 >          </p>
130 >          <h3>
131 >            Monday 26 July 2004
132 >          </h3>
133 >          <p>
134 >            Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
135 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
136 >          </p>
137 >          <p>
138 >            This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
139 >            We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
140 >            NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
141 >            that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
142 >            variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
143 >            suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
144 >            we've added error reporting functions that store errno
145 >            values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
146 >            NEWS file.
147 >          </p>
148 >          <h3>
149 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
150 >          </h3>
151 >          <p>
152 >            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
153 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
154 >          </p>
155 >          <p>
156 >            This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
157 >            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
158 >            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
159 >            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
160 >            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
161 >            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
162 >          </p>
163 >          <p>
164 >            The other main change in this release is a new function to
165 >            provide full details on currently running processes. See the
166 >            documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
167 >            this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
168 >            process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
169 >            error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
170 >            see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
171 >          </p>
172 >          <p>
173 >            Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
174 >            of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
175 >            bindings - they're now available as their own project called
176 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
177 >          </p>
178 >          <h3>
179 >            Sunday 21 March 2004
180 >          </h3>
181 >          <p>
182 >            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
183 >            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
184 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
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" -->
332 >      </div>
333 > <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
334 >    </div>
335 >  </body>
336   </html>

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