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- <center><h3>Project News</h3></center>
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- <b>Wednesday 10 March 2004</b><br><br>
- <a href="/libstatgrab/">libstatgrab</a> 0.9 has been released.
- </p>
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- <p align="justify">
- <b>Tuesday 15 July 2003</b><br><br>
- We have moved the i-scream support and bug tracking to a new
- facility on the i-scream server. For further details please
- see <a href="/support.shtml">this</a> page.
- </p>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <b>Sunday 8 June 2003</b><br><br>
- The i-scream website, email, and cvs facilities are now all
- run from a <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> server.<br>
- <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">
- <img src="/powerlogo.gif" width="171" height="64" border="0" alt="Powered By FreeBSD">
- </a>
- </p>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <b>Tuesday 4 February 2003</b><br><br>
- Over the coming week we will be making snapshot builds of the
- i-scream central monitoring system from the CVS repository.
- These builds will have quite a few changes from the downloads
- currently available (a document detailing them will be
- released later on), so please give them a whirl. We would be
- grateful if you <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">contacted</a>
- us with any questions or bugs.<br><br>
- The downloads will be available on our snapshot server :-<br>
- <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/">
- http://snapshots.i-scream.org/</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <b>Saturday 1 June 2002</b><br><br>
- Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has
- been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to finally
- see an efficient native host! Credit goes to our new developer
- <a href="/who.shtml">Pete</a>. Until we update the downloads
- pages you can download the new ihost
- <a href="ftp://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/ihost/">
- here</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <b>Tuesday 21 May 2002</b><br><br>
- We've finally put the finishing touches to the new
- <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org">RRDtool</a> based graphing system.
- It's working well, and has done away with the MySQL database
- backend which took up far too many resources. This new system
- generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more
- flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available
- through <a href="http://cvs.i-scream.org/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/">
- CVS</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <b>Tuesday 8 Jan 2002</b><br><br>
- Java ACL (Access Control List) code has been added to the util
- package of the i-scream server. This code will ultimately allow
- the server to be more secure when exposed to the Internet. More
- details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl">
- here</a> on the author's website.
- </p>
-
- <p> </p>
- <center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
- Details of the i-scream central monitoring system can be found
- on the <b><a href="features.shtml">features and overview</a></b> page.
- A variety of <b><a href="screenshots">screen shots</a></b> from the
- system show some of the key features in use. The <b><a href="reports">reports demo</a></b>
- page provides a static example of what the i-scream reports (alerts,
- historical graphs, and live data) could look like on a production system.
- </p>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-main.gif" width="100" height="107" align="right"></a>
- The latest source code is available in the <b><a href="cvs.shtml">CVS</a></b>
- repository, with binary downloads on the downloads page. The
- <b><a href="documentation">documentation</a></b> page has details of
- installation, use and maintenance for the end user and developer.
- We value feedback and comments from you, so please drop us an e-mail
- to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">dev@i-scream.org</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p> </p>
- <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <b>Extending monitoring facilites</b><br><br>
- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
- Work is continuing, in conjunction with the new ihost, to extend
- the range of i-scream's monitoring. Currently we are adding new
- features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage,
- along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve
- the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place.
- There are also many more subtle changes that need to be made to
- improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring.
- </p>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <b>Server security</b><br><br>
- Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage
- of this project (due to the academic nature of the work). However,
- once in production use this has become an issue, and is being
- addressed. Initially the plan is to lock down the external points
- of access (TCP & UDP) in the server to specific hosts. In the
- longer term, encryption of data would be nice, but would take a
- lot more time and work.
- </p>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <b>Testing and Development</b><br><br>
- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" width="100" height="62" align="right"></a>
- The i-scream system is being tested and developed within the
- Univeristy of Kent Computer Science department by the Systems
- Group. This has led to many bug fixes and minor feature
- enhancements, and will hopefully help to aid the long term
- development of the system.
- </p>
-
- <p> </p>
- <center><h3>Project History</h3></center>
-
- <p align="justify">
- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" width="100" height="104" align="left"></a>
- The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off as
- a final year project for a group of <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk">
- Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk">
- University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK. The project was completed at
- 4pm on 29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders containing
- mostly source code and documentation. The CVS repository was tagged to
- signify this even, however, the project is still being developed by the
- <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">core development team</a>.
- </p>
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- <p align="justify">
- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" width="100" height="51" align="right"></a>
- As can be seen in our "<a href="/probdomain.shtml">problem domain</a>" document, the project
- was aimed at the UKC Computer Science department, and as such
- we believed that a demonstration to the "customer" was important. The
- feedback from our demonstation was more positive than we had
- anticipated. We believe that the system may now be of interest
- to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of machines on their
- network using a central configuration. The i-scream central
- monitoring system is now being used by the UKC Computer Science
- department, and their feedback is being used to further improve
- the product.
- </p>
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- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-config.gif" width="100" height="48" align="left"></a>
- The name <i>i-scream</i> arose from a meeting whereupon one member
- of the <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">development team</a> felt a strange urge to draw an ice cream on the discussion board.
- It later became apparent that we had no name for our project (other
- than 'The Project'). It seemed only natural to name our project after
- the ice cream that had been oh-so-randomly drawn on the white board.
- Copyright issues immediately ruled out anything involving Mr Whippy,
- so we had to settle for <i>i-scream</i>. And thus, we were left with a cunning
- play on words - it still sounded like <i>ice cream</i>, yet also
- served as a functional description of our system - namely, one which
- screams at somebody if something has gone wrong...
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