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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>
151 +            Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
152 +            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
153 +          </p>
154 +          <p>
155 +            This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
156 +            also fixes a few other minor issues.
157 +          </p>
158 +          <h3>
159 +            Wednesday 25 August 2004
160 +          </h3>
161 +          <p>
162 +            Version 0.10.3 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 adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
167 +            adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
168 +            the tarball for more details.
169 +          </p>
170 +          <h3>
171              Tuesday 27 July 2004
172            </h3>
173            <p>
174              Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
175 <            Download it
55 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.10.2.tar.gz">
56 <            here</a>.
175 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
176            </p>
177            <p>
178              This release fixes a problem with the shared library
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183            </h3>
184            <p>
185              Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
186 <            Download it
68 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.10.1.tar.gz">
69 <            here</a>.
186 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
187            </p>
188            <p>
189              This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
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201            </h3>
202            <p>
203              Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
204 <            Download it
88 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.10.tar.gz">
89 <            here</a>.
204 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
205            </p>
206            <p>
207              This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
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234              bindings, has been released. Check out it's
235              <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
236            </p>
122          <h3>
123            Wednesday 10 March 2004
124          </h3>
125          <p>
126            Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
127            Download it
128            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.9.tar.gz">
129            here</a>.
130          </p>
131          <p>
132            This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
133            added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
134            etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
135            errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
136            OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
137            to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
138            privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
139          </p>
140          <h3>
141            Wednesday 11 February 2004
142          </h3>
143          <p>
144            Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
145            Download it
146            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.2.tar.gz">
147            here</a>.
148          </p>
149          <p>
150            The main focus of this release is adding support for
151            Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
152            libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
153            directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
154            code.
155          </p>
156          <h3>
157            Wednesday 21 January 2004
158          </h3>
159          <p>
160            Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
161            Download it
162            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">
163            here</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
179            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">
180            here</a>.
181          </p>
182          <p>
183            This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
184            support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
185            names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
186            There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
187            various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
188            make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
189            may require on some operating systems.
190          </p>
191          <h3>
192            Wednesday 22 October 2003
193          </h3>
194          <p>
195            Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
196            Download it
197            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">
198            here</a>.
199          </p>
200          <p>
201            The most significant change in this release is support for
202            NetBSD 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been
203            optimised, and an initialise function has been added to
204            allow programs to drop any extra privileges libstatgrab
205            needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
206            and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.
207            Finally, saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't
208            get all the statistics.
209          </p>
210          <h3>
211            Saturday 18 October 2003
212          </h3>
213          <p>
214            Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
215            Download it
216            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">
217            here</a>.
218          </p>
219          <p>
220            This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and
221            some bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some
222            fixes to saidar, and statgrab.
223          </p>
224          <h3>
225            Friday 10 October 2003
226          </h3>
227          <p>
228            Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
229            You can download it from our mirror site
230            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">
231            here</a>.
232          </p>
233          <p>
234            This release includes some exciting new tools, support for
235            FreeBSD 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major
236            bugfixes and packaging enhancements.
237          </p>
238          <h3>
239            Tuesday 09 September 2003
240          </h3>
241          <p>
242            We're pleased to announce a new release of
243            libstatgrab.<br />
244            You can download version 0.5.1 from
245            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">
246            here</a>.
247          </p>
248          <h3>
249            Monday 25 August 2003
250          </h3>
251          <p>
252            We're pleased to announce a new release of
253            libstatgrab.<br />
254            You can download version 0.5 from
255            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">
256            here</a>.
257          </p>
258          <p>
259            This release provides both documentation and examples,
260            which we hope will make the package more useable. Stay
261            tuned for the next release with some useful tools.
262          </p>
237            <h2>
264            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
265          </h2>
266          <p>
267            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
268            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
269            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
270            interfaces which can be used to access key system
271            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
272            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
273            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
274          </p>
275          <p>
276            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
277            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
278            DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
279            include as many operating systems as possible.
280          </p>
281          <p>
282            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
283            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
284            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
285            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
286            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
287            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
288            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
289            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
290            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
291            to use statgrab.
292          </p>
293          <h2>
238              <a id="download">Downloading</a>
239            </h2>
240            <p>
241              The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
242 <            our primary download
243 <            <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/">
300 <            mirror</a>. All downloads are pgp signed using our
242 >            our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
243 >            All downloads are pgp signed using our
244              <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
245            </p>
246            <p>
247              For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
248 <            files contained within the archive. If you're using
306 <            <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
307 <            use of the
308 <            <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
309 <            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://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
286 +            </li>
287 +            <li>
288 +              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
289 +            </li>
290 +            <li>
291 +              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
292 +            </li>
293 +          </ul>
294 +          <p>
295 +            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
296 +            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
297 +            we've missed any out, please let us know.
298 +          </p>
299 +          <p>
300 +            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
301 +            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
302 +          </p>
303 +          <p>
304 +            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
305 +            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
306 +            it. You can find it
307 +            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
308 +            here</a>.
309 +          </p>
310 +          <h2>
311              <a id="development">Development</a>
312            </h2>
313            <ul>
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326            </h2>
327            <p>
328              The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
329 <            manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
330 <            best to start with the overview manual page:
329 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
330 >            manual pages for the command line tools:
331            </p>
332            <ul>
333              <li>
334 <              <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
334 >              <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
335              </li>
336 +            <li>
337 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
338 +            </li>
339 +            <li>
340 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
341 +            </li>
342 +            <li>
343 +              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
344 +            </li>
345            </ul>
346            <p>
347 +            We also have an overview page for the library:
348 +          </p>
349 +          <ul>
350 +            <li>
351 +              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
352 +            </li>
353 +          </ul>
354 +          <p>
355              Then we have the manual pages for each function:
356            </p>
357            <ul>
358              <li>
359 <              <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
359 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
360              </li>
361              <li>
362 <              <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
362 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
363              </li>
364              <li>
365 <              <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
365 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
366              </li>
367              <li>
368 <              <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
368 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
369              </li>
370              <li>
371 <              <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
371 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
372              </li>
373              <li>
374 <              <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
374 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
375              </li>
376              <li>
377 <              <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
377 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
378              </li>
379              <li>
380 <              <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
380 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
381              </li>
382              <li>
383 <              <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
383 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
384              </li>
385              <li>
386 <              <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
386 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
387              </li>
388              <li>
389 <              <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
389 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
390              </li>
391            </ul>
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