[Hyperic-hq-discuss] Difficulty in using Sigar API to retrieve sys info

[Dileepa J. <dil...@gm...>]

Hi devs,

I'm Dileepa, a relatively new guy in software development.
I have a requirement of writing a small app to validate the system
configurations with a set of recommended minimal configurations. This
includes processor, memory, open-file descriptors etc. Sigar API caught my
eye as a easy-to-use portable API with java binding (I'm developing in
java).

However I'm unable to retrieve my system configuration info using Sigar
API. I used CpuInfo class to retrieve my cpu info, and NetInfo to get
network info, thus far  was unsuccessful with them. (eg:
cpu.getTotalCores() always return 0 and netInfo.getDefaultGateway() always
returns null).

I'm aware of the requirement of having the Sigar native libraries in the
application classpath. I'm developing in eclipse and have configured the
build-path of my project with sigar-1.6.0.14.jar with it's native library
location set to: sigar-bin/lib. I assume that would fulfil the native
library loading requirement of sigar. Can you guys please give me any tip
on what could be the reason for my application not to work as expected?

My system configurations :

   - CPU:  Intel Core i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz × 8
   - RAM: 8 GB
   - OS : Ubuntu 11.04 (64 bit)

Does Sigar support above system configurations/architecture/OS?
Any help on this matter is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Dileepa