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Revision: 1.36
Committed: Thu Mar 3 10:09:34 2005 UTC (19 years, 9 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
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Log Message:
Release new version of libstatgrab.

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14 i-scream libstatgrab homepage
15 </h1>
16 <div id="topnav">
17 <ul>
18 <li>
19 <a href="#news">News</a>
20 </li>
21 <li>
22 <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</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 <h2>
45 <a id="news">News</a>
46 </h2>
47 <p>
48 To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
49 subscribe to our project over on
50 <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
51 </p>
52 <h3>
53 Thursday 3 March 2005
54 </h3>
55 <p>
56 Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
57 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
58 </p>
59 <p>
60 This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
61 settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
62 full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
63 filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
64 ignored. These have all been fixed.
65 </p>
66 <h3>
67 Friday 12 November 2004
68 </h3>
69 <p>
70 Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
71 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
72 </p>
73 <p>
74 This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
75 also fixes a few other minor issues.
76 </p>
77 <h3>
78 Wednesday 25 August 2004
79 </h3>
80 <p>
81 Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
82 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
83 </p>
84 <p>
85 This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
86 adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
87 the tarball for more details.
88 </p>
89 <h3>
90 Tuesday 27 July 2004
91 </h3>
92 <p>
93 Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
94 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
95 </p>
96 <p>
97 This release fixes a problem with the shared library
98 version number in the last release.
99 </p>
100 <h3>
101 Monday 26 July 2004
102 </h3>
103 <p>
104 Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
105 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
106 </p>
107 <p>
108 This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
109 We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
110 NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
111 that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
112 variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
113 suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
114 we've added error reporting functions that store errno
115 values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
116 NEWS file.
117 </p>
118 <h3>
119 Thursday 20 May 2004
120 </h3>
121 <p>
122 Version 0.10 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 concentrates heavily on standardising the names
127 of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
128 this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
129 we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
130 for those who still need the old functions we have provided
131 compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
132 </p>
133 <p>
134 The other main change in this release is a new function to
135 provide full details on currently running processes. See the
136 documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
137 this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
138 process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
139 error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
140 see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
141 </p>
142 <p>
143 Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
144 of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
145 bindings - they're now available as their own project called
146 <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
147 </p>
148 <h3>
149 Sunday 21 March 2004
150 </h3>
151 <p>
152 pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
153 bindings, has been released. Check out it's
154 <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
155 </p>
156 <h2>
157 <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
158 </h2>
159 <p>
160 libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
161 access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
162 It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
163 interfaces which can be used to access key system
164 statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
165 usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
166 network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
167 </p>
168 <p>
169 The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
170 2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
171 DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
172 this to include as many operating systems as possible.
173 </p>
174 <p>
175 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
176 first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
177 curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
178 system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
179 interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
180 extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
181 anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
182 Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
183 <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
184 to use statgrab.
185 </p>
186 <h2>
187 <a id="download">Downloading</a>
188 </h2>
189 <p>
190 The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
191 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
192 All downloads are pgp signed using our
193 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
194 </p>
195 <p>
196 For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
197 files contained within the archive.
198 </p>
199 <h2>
200 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
201 </h2>
202 <ul>
203 <li>
204 <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
205 </li>
206 <li>
207 <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a>
208 </li>
209 <li>
210 <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a>
211 </li>
212 </ul>
213 <p>
214 Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
215 that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
216 a binding for another language, please get
217 <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
218 can add a link here.
219 </p>
220 <h2>
221 <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
222 </h2>
223 <ul>
224 <li>
225 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
226 </li>
227 <li>
228 <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
229 </li>
230 <li>
231 <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
232 </li>
233 <li>
234 <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/packages/debian/">Debian (unofficial)</a>
235 </li>
236 <li>
237 <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
238 </li>
239 </ul>
240 <p>
241 These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
242 that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
243 we've missed any out, please let us know.
244 </p>
245 <p>
246 We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
247 to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
248 </p>
249 <p>
250 Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
251 OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
252 it. You can find it
253 <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
254 here</a>.
255 </p>
256 <h2>
257 <a id="development">Development</a>
258 </h2>
259 <ul>
260 <li>
261 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&amp;module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a>
262 </li>
263 </ul>
264 <p>
265 We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system.
266 Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week.
267 For more information on our CVS setup see our
268 <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>.
269 </p>
270 <h2>
271 <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
272 </h2>
273 <p>
274 The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
275 manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably
276 best to start with the overview manual page:
277 </p>
278 <ul>
279 <li>
280 <a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a>
281 </li>
282 </ul>
283 <p>
284 Then we have the manual pages for each function:
285 </p>
286 <ul>
287 <li>
288 <a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
289 </li>
290 <li>
291 <a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
292 </li>
293 <li>
294 <a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
295 </li>
296 <li>
297 <a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
298 </li>
299 <li>
300 <a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
301 </li>
302 <li>
303 <a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
304 </li>
305 <li>
306 <a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
307 </li>
308 <li>
309 <a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
310 </li>
311 <li>
312 <a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
313 </li>
314 <li>
315 <a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
316 </li>
317 <li>
318 <a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
319 </li>
320 </ul>
321 <h2>
322 <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
323 </h2>
324 <p>
325 Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
326 </p>
327 <p>
328 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
329 </p>
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