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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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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>
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219		bindings, has been released. Check out it's
220		<a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
221		</p>
142	–	<h3>
143	–	Wednesday 10 March 2004
144	–	</h3>
145	–	<p>
146	–	Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
147	–	Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
148	–	</p>
149	–	<p>
150	–	This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
151	–	added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
152	–	etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
153	–	errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
154	–	OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
155	–	to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
156	–	privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
157	–	</p>
158	–	<h3>
159	–	Wednesday 11 February 2004
160	–	</h3>
161	–	<p>
162	–	Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
163	–	Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
164	–	</p>
165	–	<p>
166	–	The main focus of this release is adding support for
167	–	Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
168	–	libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
169	–	directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
170	–	code.
171	–	</p>
172	–	<h3>
173	–	Wednesday 21 January 2004
174	–	</h3>
175	–	<p>
176	–	Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
177	–	Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
178	–	</p>
179	–	<p>
180	–	This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
181	–	descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
182	–	speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
183	–	with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
184	–	library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
185	–	released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
186	–	</p>
187	–	<h3>
188	–	Tuesday 6 January 2004
189	–	</h3>
190	–	<p>
191	–	Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
192	–	Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
193	–	</p>
194	–	<p>
195	–	This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
196	–	support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
197	–	names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
198	–	There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
199	–	various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
200	–	make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
201	–	may require on some operating systems.
202	–	</p>
222		<h2>
204	–	<a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
205	–	</h2>
206	–	<p>
207	–	libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
208	–	access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
209	–	It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
210	–	interfaces which can be used to access key system
211	–	statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
212	–	usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
213	–	network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
214	–	</p>
215	–	<p>
216	–	The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
217	–	2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
218	–	DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
219	–	this to include as many operating systems as possible.
220	–	</p>
221	–	<p>
222	–	The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
223	–	first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
224	–	curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
225	–	system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
226	–	interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
227	–	extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
228	–	anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
229	–	Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
230	–	<a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
231	–	to use statgrab.
232	–	</p>
233	–	<h2>
223		<a id="download">Downloading</a>
224		</h2>
225		<p>
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250		Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
251		that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
252		a binding for another language, please get
253	<	<a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
253	>	<a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
254		can add a link here.
255		</p>
256		<h2>
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267		<a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
268		</li>
269		<li>
270	<	<a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/packages/debian/">Debian (unofficial)</a>
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>
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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.
290	>	here</a>.
291		</p>
292		<h2>
293		<a id="development">Development</a>

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