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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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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>
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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>
136 +            Version 0.11 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 brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
141 +            also fixes a few other minor issues.
142 +          </p>
143 +          <h3>
144              Wednesday 25 August 2004
145            </h3>
146            <p>
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219              bindings, has been released. Check out it's
220              <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
221            </p>
128          <h3>
129            Wednesday 10 March 2004
130          </h3>
131          <p>
132            Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
133            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
134          </p>
135          <p>
136            This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
137            added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
138            etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
139            errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
140            OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
141            to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
142            privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
143          </p>
144          <h3>
145            Wednesday 11 February 2004
146          </h3>
147          <p>
148            Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
149            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
150          </p>
151          <p>
152            The main focus of this release is adding support for
153            Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
154            libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
155            directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
156            code.
157          </p>
158          <h3>
159            Wednesday 21 January 2004
160          </h3>
161          <p>
162            Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
163            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
164          </p>
165          <p>
166            This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
167            descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
168            speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
169            with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
170            library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
171            released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
172          </p>
173          <h3>
174            Tuesday 6 January 2004
175          </h3>
176          <p>
177            Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
178            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
179          </p>
180          <p>
181            This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
182            support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
183            names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
184            There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
185            various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
186            make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
187            may require on some operating systems.
188          </p>
222            <h2>
190            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
191          </h2>
192          <p>
193            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
194            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
195            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
196            interfaces which can be used to access key system
197            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
198            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
199            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
200          </p>
201          <p>
202            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
203            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
204            DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
205            include as many operating systems as possible.
206          </p>
207          <p>
208            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
209            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
210            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
211            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
212            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
213            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
214            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
215            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
216            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
217            to use statgrab.
218          </p>
219          <h2>
223              <a id="download">Downloading</a>
224            </h2>
225            <p>
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230            </p>
231            <p>
232              For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
233 <            files contained within the archive. If you're using
231 <            <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
232 <            use of the
233 <            <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
234 <            devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you.
233 >            files contained within the archive.
234            </p>
235            <h2>
236              <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
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252              a binding for another language, please get
253              <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
254              can add a link here.
255 +          </p>
256 +          <h2>
257 +            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
258 +          </h2>
259 +          <ul>
260 +            <li>
261 +              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
262 +            </li>
263 +            <li>
264 +              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
265 +            </li>
266 +            <li>
267 +              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
268 +            </li>
269 +            <li>
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>
274 +            </li>
275 +          </ul>
276 +          <p>
277 +            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
278 +            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
279 +            we've missed any out, please let us know.
280 +          </p>
281 +          <p>
282 +            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
283 +            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
284 +          </p>
285 +          <p>
286 +            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
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</a>.
291            </p>
292            <h2>
293              <a id="development">Development</a>

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