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- <h1 align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000066">i-scream
- screenshots</font></h1>
- <h3 align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000066">(or the two minute
- tour)</font></h3>
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- <p><font size="2" face="Arial">This page provides a sequence of
- screenshots to help you to gain a better understanding of the i-scream
- distributed central monitoring system and how it may be applied in
- networked environments. Click on the thumbnails to view the full
- size screenshots.</font></p>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="77"></a></font>
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- <td valign="top"><font color="#000066"><font face="Arial"><b>Reports Centre</b></font><b><font face="Arial">
- (Web)</font></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- The i-scream reports centre provides a central access point to all
- web-based reports that are provided by the i-scream system. Reports
- are available to display information about the current status of an
- individual machine and any alerts pertaining to either an individual
- machine, or a summary of alerts for all machines. Historical
- information about monitored machines may also be accessed from this point.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="104"></a></font>
- <p> </td>
- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Latest Information
- (Web)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- Here we are viewing the latest information provided by a host. Bars
- are used to represent values such as disk space and free memory as this
- makes it easier to spot casual problems. The small graph icons link
- to historical reports of each field for the previous day. The choice
- of fields to display on this page is stored in a separate configuration
- file.</font>
- <p> </td>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="110"></a></font>
- <p> </td>
- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial"><font color="#000066">Conient (Multiplatform
- real-time client)</font><br>
- </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Conient is a real-time client that
- can hook into an i-scream server to allow the user to view host
- information as it passes through the server. The client displays
- information provided by the hosts as well as the results of service checks
- performed by the server on each host (eg FTP, Telnet, etc). Conient
- is written in Java and can thus be run on most operating systems.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-platform-info.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-platform-info.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="59"></a></font>
- <p> </td>
- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient (Viewing
- extra data)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- Less important host information may be viewed in a seperate window to
- avoid clutter in Conient's display. Details of the protocol for
- host-to-server communications are freely available to developers.
- The protocol itself is extensible and client programs such as Conient
- display even unrecognised data from modified host programs.</font>
- <p> </td>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-config.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-config.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="48"></a></font>
- <p> </td>
- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient
- (Configuration)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- Conient is fully configurable from within the program itself.
- Multiple configurations may be saved. Conient can also be configured
- to connect to a server through a firewall via an SSH tunnel or suchlike.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="ihost-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="51"></a></font>
- <p> </td>
- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">ihost (Unix/Linux
- host)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- The ihost is currently the main Unix/Linux/FreeBSD host application for
- i-scream. ihost is centrally configured by the server it connects to
- and periodically sends information about the machine on which it is
- running. The ihost is written in Perl, so can be easily altered to
- send extra information to your i-scream server.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="winhost-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="62"></a></font>
- <p> </td>
- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">WinHost (Windows
- host)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- The WinHost is similar in concept to the ihost, however, this one runs on
- Windows NT/2000 servers. Again, the configuration is dynamically
- obtained from the server. The WinHost is typically only present in
- the Windows system tray. Double clicking on the system tray icon
- will bring up a small window that allows data to be viewed and to force
- reconfiguration with the server.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="alerter-email.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="74"></a></font>
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- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Email)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- The i-scream server includes many alerting mechanisms. Simple email
- alerts may be sent out if desired. Alert levels and frequencies may
- be configured for the server. This screenshot shows the format of a
- typical alert; the contents of which are of course configurable.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="alerter-irc.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-alerter-irc.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="95"></a></font>
- <p> </td>
- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (IRC bot)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- Another i-scream alerter comes in the form of an interactive IRC bot.
- This may reside in an IRC (Internet relay chat) channel and broadcasts
- alerts if told to do so. This screenshot shows a typical interaction
- with a user in the "Bersirc" IRC client.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-alerts-all.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-alerts-all.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="96"></a></font>
- <p> </td>
- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Web page)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- Individual alerts and a summary of all alerts raised by the i-scream
- server may be viewed on the alerts web pages. These show the
- different levels of alerts in configurable colours and provides specific
- details about the alerts being raised for each machine.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-public-autoscroll.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-public-autoscroll.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="78"></a></font>
- <p> </td>
- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Public
- helpdesk display)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The reports centre also provides a
- page that may be useful in configuring non-interactive public displays of
- alerts. These displays automatically refresh the page periodically
- and supported web browsers may also automatically scroll the page to allow
- a large font to be employed for easier reading from a distance.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-queues.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-queues.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="159"></a></font>
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- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient (Server queue
- monitoring)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The Conient client may also be used
- to monitor information about the i-scream server itself. Here we are
- viewing the status of the internal queues within the server. This
- shows that the server is performing healthily and that there are no
- bottlenecks. </font></td>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-load15.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="107"></a></font>
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- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Historical reports
- (Web)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Historical information is collated
- by the i-scream server into (typically) a MySQL database. A separate
- program is used to produce the historical web reports These may be browsed
- via this web-based interface (see screenshot). The reports to be
- generated for each machine and the size of the page are of course
- configurable.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-users.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-users.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="96"></a></font>
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- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Historical reports
- (Metadata)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The historical report generation
- also produces a number of other files that may be useful for third party
- analysis tools. The chart itself is written as a GIF image, as well
- as a small file suitable for including on PHP pages that specifies the
- minimum and maximum values during the 24 hour period. A file
- containing the raw plot data is also produced to enable the use of third
- party on-the-fly plotting tools.</font>
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- <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="server-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-server-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="100"></a></font>
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- <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">The i-scream server</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
- </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The server is distributed and may
- therefore have multiple points of data entry and run on more than one
- machine. This helps to reduce the amount of host traffic over large
- networks and reduces potential bottlenecks. The server is written in
- Java to allow it to run on most operating systems. This exciting
- screenshot shows the i-scream server running ;-)</font>
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