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25 <
26 < <h1>libstatgrab</h1>
27 <
28 < <ul>
29 < <li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
30 < <li><a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a></li>
31 < <li><a href="#download">Downloading</a></li>
32 < <li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
33 < </ul>
34 <
35 < <a name="news"><h2>News</h2></a>
36 <
37 < <p>
38 < <b>Thursday 09 October 2003</b><br><br>
39 < Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br>
40 < You can download it from our mirror site
41 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>.
42 < This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD
43 < 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and
44 < packaging enhancements.
45 < </p>
46 <
47 < <p>
48 < <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
49 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
50 < You can download version 0.5.1 from
51 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>.
52 < </p>
53 <
54 < <p>
55 < <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
56 < We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br>
57 < You can download version 0.5 from
58 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
59 < This release provides both documentation and examples, which
60 < we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
61 < next release with some useful tools.
62 < </p>
63 <
64 < <a name="what"><h2>What is libstatgrab?</h2></a>
65 <
66 < <p>
67 < libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
68 < statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
69 < presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
70 < key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
71 < usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network
72 < traffic, disk I/O, and more.
73 < </p>
74 <
75 < <p>
76 < The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.4, and FreeBSD
77 < 4.x/5.x. The aim is to extend this to include as many operating systems
78 < as possible.
79 < </p>
80 <
81 < <p>
82 < The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first, saidar,
83 < provides a curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
84 < system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style interface to the
85 < statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This extends the use of
86 < libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything else that can't
87 < easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is a script to
88 < generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
89 < to use statgrab.
90 < </p>
91 <
92 < <a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a>
93 <
94 < <p>
95 < The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our
96 < primary download
97 < <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>.
98 < All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>.
99 < </p>
100 <
101 < <p>
102 < For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files
103 < contained within the archive. If you're using
104 < <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the
105 < <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">devel/libstatgrab</a>
106 < port to install libstatgrab for you.
107 < </p>
108 <
109 < <a name="documentation"><h2>Documentation</h2></a>
110 <
111 < <p>
112 < The only online documentation we have at the moment is the manual
113 < pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably best to start with
114 < the overview manual page:
115 <
116 < <ul>
117 < <li><a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a></li>
118 < </ul>
119 < </p>
120 <
121 < <p>
122 < Then we have the manual pages for each function:
123 <
124 < <ul>
125 < <li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li>
126 < <li><a href="get_diskio_stats.html">get_diskio_stats(3)</a></li>
127 < <li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li>
128 < <li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li>
129 < <li><a href="get_memory_stats.html">get_memory_stats(3)</a></li>
130 < <li><a href="get_network_stats.html">get_network_stats(3)</a></li>
131 < <li><a href="get_page_stats.html">get_page_stats(3)</a></li>
132 < <li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li>
133 < <li><a href="get_user_stats.html">get_user_stats(3)</a></li>
134 < </ul>
135 < </p>
136 <
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1 > <!--#include virtual="/doctype.inc" -->
2 >  <head>
3 >    <title>
4 >      i-scream libstatgrab homepage
5 >    </title>
6 > <!--#include virtual="/style.inc" -->
7 >  </head>
8 >  <body>
9 >    <div id="container">
10 >      <div id="main">
11 > <!--#include virtual="/header.inc" -->
12 >        <div id="contents">
13 >          <h1 class="top">
14 >            i-scream libstatgrab homepage
15 >          </h1>
16 >          <div id="topnav">
17 >            <ul>
18 >              <li>
19 >                <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
20 >              </li>
21 >              <li>
22 >                <a href="#news">News</a>
23 >              </li>
24 >              <li>
25 >                <a href="#download">Downloading</a>
26 >              </li>
27 >              <li>
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>
37 >                <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
38 >              </li>
39 >              <li>
40 >                <a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a>
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>
79 >            To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
80 >            subscribe to our project over on
81 >            <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
82 >          </p>
83 >          <h3>
84 >            Saturday 14 July 2007
85 >          </h3>
86 >          <p>
87 >            Version 0.15 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 fixes a regression introduced on OpenBSD in
92 >            the last release - memory statistics were reported
93 >            incorrectly. Some other minor changes have been made, see
94 >            the NEWS file for more information.
95 >          </p>
96 >          <h3>
97 >            Monday 8 January 2007
98 >          </h3>
99 >          <p>
100 >            Version 0.14 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
101 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
102 >          </p>
103 >          <p>
104 >            This release contains mainly bugfixes - see the NEWS file
105 >            in the distribution for a full list. It also brings a new
106 >            feature in saidar: colour support, which can be activated
107 >            with the -c runtime flag.
108 >          </p>
109 >          <h3>
110 >            Monday 20 March 2006
111 >          </h3>
112 >          <p>
113 >            Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
114 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
115 >          </p>
116 >          <p>
117 >            This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
118 >            also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
119 >            added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
120 >            easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
121 >            full details.
122 >          </p>
123 >          <h3>
124 >            Sunday 31 July 2005
125 >          </h3>
126 >          <p>
127 >            Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
128 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
129 >          </p>
130 >          <p>
131 >            This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
132 >            API change. More details have been added to the file
133 >            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
134 >            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
135 >            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
136 >            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
137 >          </p>
138 >          <p>
139 >            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
140 >            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
141 >            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
142 >            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
143 >            defined.
144 >          </p>
145 >          <h3>
146 >            Tuesday 26 April 2005
147 >          </h3>
148 >          <p>
149 >            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
150 >            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
151 >          </p>
152 >          <p>
153 >            Thanks to the work of
154 >            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
155 >            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
156 >            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
157 >            updated.
158 >          </p>
159 >          <h3>
160 >            Thursday 3 March 2005
161 >          </h3>
162 >          <p>
163 >            Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
164 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
165 >          </p>
166 >          <p>
167 >            This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
168 >            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
169 >            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
170 >            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
171 >            ignored. These have all been fixed.
172 >          </p>
173 >          <h3>
174 >            Friday 12 November 2004
175 >          </h3>
176 >          <p>
177 >            Version 0.11 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 HP-UX (version 11.11), and
182 >            also fixes a few other minor issues.
183 >          </p>
184 >          <h3>
185 >            Wednesday 25 August 2004
186 >          </h3>
187 >          <p>
188 >            Version 0.10.3 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 adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
193 >            adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
194 >            the tarball for more details.
195 >          </p>
196 >          <h3>
197 >            Tuesday 27 July 2004
198 >          </h3>
199 >          <p>
200 >            Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
201 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
202 >          </p>
203 >          <p>
204 >            This release fixes a problem with the shared library
205 >            version number in the last release.
206 >          </p>
207 >          <h3>
208 >            Monday 26 July 2004
209 >          </h3>
210 >          <p>
211 >            Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
212 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
213 >          </p>
214 >          <p>
215 >            This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
216 >            We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
217 >            NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
218 >            that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
219 >            variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
220 >            suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
221 >            we've added error reporting functions that store errno
222 >            values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
223 >            NEWS file.
224 >          </p>
225 >          <h3>
226 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
227 >          </h3>
228 >          <p>
229 >            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
230 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
231 >          </p>
232 >          <p>
233 >            This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
234 >            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
235 >            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
236 >            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
237 >            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
238 >            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
239 >          </p>
240 >          <p>
241 >            The other main change in this release is a new function to
242 >            provide full details on currently running processes. See the
243 >            documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
244 >            this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
245 >            process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
246 >            error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
247 >            see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
248 >          </p>
249 >          <p>
250 >            Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
251 >            of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
252 >            bindings - they're now available as their own project called
253 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
254 >          </p>
255 >          <h3>
256 >            Sunday 21 March 2004
257 >          </h3>
258 >          <p>
259 >            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
260 >            bindings, has been released. Check out its
261 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
262 >          </p>
263 >          <h2>
264 >            <a id="download">Downloading</a>
265 >          </h2>
266 >          <p>
267 >            The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
268 >            our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
269 >            All downloads are pgp signed using our
270 >            <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
271 >          </p>
272 >          <p>
273 >            For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
274 >            files contained within the archive.
275 >          </p>
276 >          <h2>
277 >            <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
278 >          </h2>
279 >          <ul>
280 >            <li>
281 >              <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
282 >            </li>
283 >            <li>
284 >              <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
285 >            </li>
286 >            <li>
287 >              <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
288 >            </li>
289 >          </ul>
290 >          <p>
291 >            Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
292 >            that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
293 >            a binding for another language, please get
294 >            <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
295 >            can add a link here.
296 >          </p>
297 >          <h2>
298 >            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
299 >          </h2>
300 >          <ul>
301 >            <li>
302 >              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
303 >            </li>
304 >            <li>
305 >              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
306 >            </li>
307 >            <li>
308 >              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
309 >            </li>
310 >            <li>
311 >              <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
312 >            </li>
313 >            <li>
314 >              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
315 >            </li>
316 >            <li>
317 >              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
318 >            </li>
319 >            <li>
320 >              <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/anagappan/">RPMs for various Linux distributions</a>
321 >            </li>
322 >          </ul>
323 >          <p>
324 >            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
325 >            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
326 >            we've missed any out, please let us know.
327 >          </p>
328 >          <p>
329 >            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
330 >            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
331 >          </p>
332 >          <p>
333 >            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
334 >            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
335 >            it. You can find it
336 >            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
337 >            here</a>.
338 >          </p>
339 >          <h2>
340 >            <a id="development">Development</a>
341 >          </h2>
342 >          <ul>
343 >            <li>
344 >              <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
345 >            </li>
346 >          </ul>
347 >          <p>
348 >            We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
349 >            Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
350 >            For more information on our CVS setup see our
351 >            <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
352 >          </p>
353 >          <h2>
354 >            <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
355 >          </h2>
356 >          <p>
357 >            The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
358 >            manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
359 >            manual pages for the command line tools:
360 >          </p>
361 >          <ul>
362 >            <li>
363 >              <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
364 >            </li>
365 >            <li>
366 >              <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
367 >            </li>
368 >            <li>
369 >              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
370 >            </li>
371 >            <li>
372 >              <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
373 >            </li>
374 >          </ul>
375 >          <p>
376 >            We also have an overview page for the library:
377 >          </p>
378 >          <ul>
379 >            <li>
380 >              <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
381 >            </li>
382 >          </ul>
383 >          <p>
384 >            Then we have the manual pages for each function:
385 >          </p>
386 >          <ul>
387 >            <li>
388 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
389 >            </li>
390 >            <li>
391 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
392 >            </li>
393 >            <li>
394 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
395 >            </li>
396 >            <li>
397 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
398 >            </li>
399 >            <li>
400 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
401 >            </li>
402 >            <li>
403 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
404 >            </li>
405 >            <li>
406 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
407 >            </li>
408 >            <li>
409 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
410 >            </li>
411 >            <li>
412 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
413 >            </li>
414 >            <li>
415 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
416 >            </li>
417 >            <li>
418 >              <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
419 >            </li>
420 >          </ul>
421 >          <h2>
422 >            <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
423 >          </h2>
424 >          <p>
425 >            Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
426 >          </p>
427 >          <p>
428 >            <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
429 >          </p>
430 >        </div>
431 > <!--#include virtual="/footer.inc" -->
432 >      </div>
433 > <!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
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435 >  </body>
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