+ i-scream libstatgrab homepage +
+ ++ What is libstatgrab? +
++ libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform + access to statistics about the system on which it's run. + It's written in C and presents a selection of useful + interfaces which can be used to access key system + statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU + usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, + network traffic, disk I/O, and more. +
++ The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux + 2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x, + DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend + this to include as many operating systems as possible. +
++ The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The + first, saidar, provides a + curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the + system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style + interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This + extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or + anything else that can't easily make C function calls. + Included with statgrab is a script to generate an + MRTG configuration file + to use statgrab. +
++ News +
++ To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not + subscribe to our project over on + freshmeat? +
++ Sunday 31 July 2005 +
+
+ Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.
+ Download it from one of our mirrors.
+
+ This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor + API change. More details have been added to the file + system statistics, linux partition detection has been + reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed. + Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7. + There are also manual pages for all the tools. +
++ The duplex value in the network interface statistics has + changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API. + We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before, + the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is + defined. +
++ Tuesday 26 April 2005 +
++ Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now + available. +
++ Thanks to the work of + Bartosz Fenski + libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our + unofficial debian packages which will no longer be + updated. +
++ Thursday 3 March 2005 +
+
+ Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.
+ Download it from one of our mirrors.
+
+ This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex + settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and + full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative + filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were + ignored. These have all been fixed. +
++ Friday 12 November 2004 +
+
+ Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.
+ Download it from one of our mirrors.
+
+ This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and + also fixes a few other minor issues. +
++ Wednesday 25 August 2004 +
+
+ Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.
+ Download it from one of our mirrors.
+
+ This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and + adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in + the tarball for more details. +
++ Tuesday 27 July 2004 +
+
+ Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.
+ Download it from one of our mirrors.
+
+ This release fixes a problem with the shared library + version number in the last release. +
++ Monday 26 July 2004 +
+
+ Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.
+ Download it from one of our mirrors.
+
+ This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes. + We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and + NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab + that broke network statistics on Solaris. New + variables have been added to the pkg-config file to + suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and + we've added error reporting functions that store errno + values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the + NEWS file. +
++ Thursday 20 May 2004 +
+
+ Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.
+ Download it from one of our mirrors.
+
+ This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names + of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although + this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run + we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However, + for those who still need the old functions we have provided + compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details. +
++ The other main change in this release is a new function to + provide full details on currently running processes. See the + documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with + this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting + process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced + error reporting functions that allow calling applications to + see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error. +
++ Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots + of areas of the code. This release does not include the python + bindings - they're now available as their own project called + pystatgrab. +
++ Sunday 21 March 2004 +
++ pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python + bindings, has been released. Check out it's + project page. +
++ Downloading +
++ The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from + our mirror sites. + All downloads are pgp signed using our + PGP Key. +
++ For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL + files contained within the archive. +
++ Language Bindings +
+-
+
- + Python + +
- + PHP (external) + +
- + Perl (external) + +
+ Here are links to bindings for higher level languages + that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written + a binding for another language, please get + in touch so we + can add a link here. +
++ Packages of libstatgrab +
+-
+
- + FreeBSD + +
- + Gentoo Linux + +
- + Solaris (Blastwave) + +
- + Debian + +
- + NetBSD + +
+ These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab + that you can get for your favourite operating system. If + we've missed any out, please let us know. +
++ We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating + to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them. +
++ Several attempts were made to submit a port to the + OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking + it. You can find it + + here. +
++ Development +
+-
+
- + Commits this week + +
+ We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system. + Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week. + For more information on our CVS setup see our + CVS page. +
++ Documentation +
++ The only online documentation we have at the moment is the + manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably + best to start with the overview manual page: +
+-
+
- + statgrab(3) + +
+ Then we have the manual pages for each function: +
+-
+
- + sg_get_cpu_stats(3) + +
- + sg_get_disk_io_stats(3) + +
- + sg_get_fs_stats(3) + +
- + sg_get_host_info(3) + +
- + sg_get_load_stats(3) + +
- + sg_get_mem_stats(3) + +
- + sg_get_network_iface_stats(3) + +
- + sg_get_network_io_stats(3) + +
- + sg_get_page_stats(3) + +
- + sg_get_process_stats(3) + +
- + sg_get_user_stats(3) + +
+ Screenshot +
++ Here's what saidar looks like when it's running: +
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