libstatgrab 0.13 review

libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it's run

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 434K Developer: i-scream

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libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it's run. libstatgrab library 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.

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, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to include as many operating systems as possible.

The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first, saidar, 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 MRTG configuration file to use statgrab.

What's New in This Release:
This release mainly consists of minor bugfixes, but preliminary support for Win32 was also added.
It is now easier to link to C++ code by tweaking the header file.