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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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41                </li>
42              </ul>
43            </div>
44 + <!--#include virtual="/bannerad.inc" -->
45            <h2>
46 +            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
47 +          </h2>
48 +          <p>
49 +            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
50 +            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
51 +            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
52 +            interfaces which can be used to access key system
53 +            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
54 +            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
55 +            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
56 +          </p>
57 +          <p>
58 +            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
59 +            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
60 +            DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
61 +            this to include as many operating systems as possible.
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            <p>
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81              <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
82            </p>
83            <h3>
84 +            Monday 20 March 2006
85 +          </h3>
86 +          <p>
87 +            Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
88 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
89 +          </p>
90 +          <p>
91 +            This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
92 +            also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
93 +            added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
94 +            easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
95 +            full details.
96 +          </p>
97 +          <h3>
98 +            Sunday 31 July 2005
99 +          </h3>
100 +          <p>
101 +            Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
102 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
103 +          </p>
104 +          <p>
105 +            This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
106 +            API change. More details have been added to the file
107 +            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
108 +            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
109 +            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
110 +            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
111 +          </p>
112 +          <p>
113 +            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
114 +            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
115 +            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
116 +            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
117 +            defined.
118 +          </p>
119 +          <h3>
120 +            Tuesday 26 April 2005
121 +          </h3>
122 +          <p>
123 +            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
124 +            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
125 +          </p>
126 +          <p>
127 +            Thanks to the work of
128 +            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
129 +            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
130 +            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
131 +            updated.
132 +          </p>
133 +          <h3>
134 +            Thursday 3 March 2005
135 +          </h3>
136 +          <p>
137 +            Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
138 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
139 +          </p>
140 +          <p>
141 +            This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
142 +            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
143 +            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
144 +            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
145 +            ignored. These have all been fixed.
146 +          </p>
147 +          <h3>
148              Friday 12 November 2004
149            </h3>
150            <p>
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234              bindings, has been released. Check out it's
235              <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
236            </p>
139          <h3>
140            Wednesday 10 March 2004
141          </h3>
142          <p>
143            Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
144            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
145          </p>
146          <p>
147            This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
148            added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
149            etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
150            errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
151            OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
152            to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
153            privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
154          </p>
155          <h3>
156            Wednesday 11 February 2004
157          </h3>
158          <p>
159            Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
160            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
161          </p>
162          <p>
163            The main focus of this release is adding support for
164            Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
165            libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
166            directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
167            code.
168          </p>
169          <h3>
170            Wednesday 21 January 2004
171          </h3>
172          <p>
173            Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
174            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
175          </p>
176          <p>
177            This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
178            descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
179            speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
180            with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
181            library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
182            released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
183          </p>
184          <h3>
185            Tuesday 6 January 2004
186          </h3>
187          <p>
188            Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
189            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
190          </p>
191          <p>
192            This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
193            support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
194            names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
195            There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
196            various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
197            make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
198            may require on some operating systems.
199          </p>
237            <h2>
201            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
202          </h2>
203          <p>
204            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
205            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
206            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
207            interfaces which can be used to access key system
208            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
209            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
210            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
211          </p>
212          <p>
213            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
214            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
215            DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
216            include as many operating systems as possible.
217          </p>
218          <p>
219            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
220            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
221            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
222            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
223            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
224            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
225            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
226            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
227            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
228            to use statgrab.
229          </p>
230          <h2>
238              <a id="download">Downloading</a>
239            </h2>
240            <p>
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245            </p>
246            <p>
247              For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
248 <            files contained within the archive. If you're using
242 <            <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
243 <            use of the
244 <            <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
245 <            devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you.
248 >            files contained within the archive.
249            </p>
250            <h2>
251              <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
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265              Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
266              that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
267              a binding for another language, please get
268 <            <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
268 >            <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
269              can add a link here.
270            </p>
271            <h2>
272 +            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
273 +          </h2>
274 +          <ul>
275 +            <li>
276 +              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
277 +            </li>
278 +            <li>
279 +              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
280 +            </li>
281 +            <li>
282 +              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
283 +            </li>
284 +            <li>
285 +              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
286 +            </li>
287 +            <li>
288 +              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
289 +            </li>
290 +          </ul>
291 +          <p>
292 +            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
293 +            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
294 +            we've missed any out, please let us know.
295 +          </p>
296 +          <p>
297 +            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
298 +            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
299 +          </p>
300 +          <p>
301 +            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
302 +            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
303 +            it. You can find it
304 +            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
305 +            here</a>.
306 +          </p>
307 +          <h2>
308              <a id="development">Development</a>
309            </h2>
310            <ul>
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323            </h2>
324            <p>
325              The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
326 <            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
327 <            best to start with the overview manual page:
326 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
327 >            manual pages for the command line tools:
328            </p>
329            <ul>
330              <li>
331 <              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
331 >              <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
332              </li>
333 +            <li>
334 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
335 +            </li>
336 +            <li>
337 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
338 +            </li>
339 +            <li>
340 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
341 +            </li>
342            </ul>
343            <p>
344 +            We also have an overview page for the library:
345 +          </p>
346 +          <ul>
347 +            <li>
348 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
349 +            </li>
350 +          </ul>
351 +          <p>
352              Then we have the manual pages for each function:
353            </p>
354            <ul>
355              <li>
356 <              <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
356 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
357              </li>
358              <li>
359 <              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
359 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
360              </li>
361              <li>
362 <              <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
362 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
363              </li>
364              <li>
365 <              <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
365 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
366              </li>
367              <li>
368 <              <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
368 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
369              </li>
370              <li>
371 <              <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
371 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
372              </li>
373              <li>
374 <              <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
374 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
375              </li>
376              <li>
377 <              <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
377 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
378              </li>
379              <li>
380 <              <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
380 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
381              </li>
382              <li>
383 <              <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
383 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
384              </li>
385              <li>
386 <              <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
386 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
387              </li>
388            </ul>
389            <h2>

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