- We're pleased to announce a new release of
- libstatgrab.<br />
- You can download version 0.5 from
- <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">
- here</a>.
- </p>
- <p>
- This release provides both documentation and examples,
- which we hope will make the package more useable. Stay
- tuned for the next release with some useful tools.
- </p>
- <h2>
- <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
- </h2>
- <p>
- libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
- access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
- It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
- interfaces which can be used to access key system
- statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
- usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
- network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
- </p>
- <p>
- The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
- 2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
- DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
- include as many operating systems as possible.
- </p>
- <p>
- The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
- first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
- curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
- system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
- interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
- extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
- anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
- Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
- <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
- to use statgrab.