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SIGAR - System Monitoring API

Hyperic is pleased to announce the release of SIGAR (System Information Gatherer and Reporter), a Java API for providing cross platform access to system monitoring information.

SIGAR was developed by Hyperic to overcome the lack of portable access to low-level hardware and os metrics found in the Java platform. It is now a key component of the Hyperic HQ management platform since it provides HQ with visibility into things which are otherwise impossible to get to through the standard Java API.

Over the last 2 years of development, SIGAR has been enhanced to support multiple language bindings and operate on more than 10 OS/hardware combinations. We have decided to make this technology freely available for non-commercial use to give others the ability to write and enhance applications which would benefit from the type of information SIGAR provides.

The SIGAR API and command-line tool provide access to detailed information like:

System memory statistics -- total, free, shared

CPU statistics -- load averages, user cpu, system cpu

Process level statistics -- process arguments, memory consumption, cpu consumption, credential info, state, environment, open file descriptors

File system level statistics -- local and remote mounted file systems (NTFS, ext, SMB, NFS, etc), capacity, utilization

Network interface level statistics -- all available network interfaces detected and monitored for bytes received/transmitted, packets received/transmitted, collisions, errors, dropped packets

The SIGAR distribution includes the following:

SIGAR Native Libraries (Linux .so, Win32 .dll, Solaris .so, AIX .so, HP/UX .so)

SIGAR Java bindings (Packaged as a single .jar file)

Java source code for common unix commands like top, ps, df, and others which show you examples of how SIGAR can be used, as well as provide cross platform versions of these helpful commands not typically found on all platforms.

SIGAR Command Line Interpreter which allows you to interactively try out the sample commands, as well as view an example of doing things like using SIGAR to build a cross platform command line shell with bash-like tab completion

Javadoc Documentation (also available online )

SIGAR is available for download at: http://www.hyperic.net/downloads/sigar.html

About Hyperic Inc.

Hyperic provides open source systems monitoring and management software that reduces the workload for operations teams at the world’s biggest web companies, including Microsoft, CNET Networks, hi5 Networks, Contegix, Rackspace’s Mosso, and more.

Its award-winning Hyperic HQ software auto-discovers and updates asset inventory and allows operations teams to perform cross-platform monitoring, diagnostics and control from a remote, web-based console, helping them more quickly pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems at every major layer—including hardware, networks, virtualization and applications.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital.

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