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        <center><h3>Project News</h3></center>
        
        
        <center><h3>Project News</h3></center>
        

+       <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 see an
+        efficient host at last! 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="http://kernow.ukc.ac.uk/snapshots/ihost-1.0rc1.tar.gz">
+        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://www.i-scream.org.uk/cgi-bin/cvs/viewcvs.cgi/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/"
+        CVS</a>.
+       </p>
+
+       <p align="justify">
+        <b>Saturday 18 May 2002</b><br><br>
+        The i-scream central monitoring system is now <a href="/license.shtml">
+        licensed under the GNU Public License. We are currently working
+        to make full downloads, including source, available on this site.
+       </p>
+

        <p align="justify">
         <b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br>
        <p align="justify">
         <b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br>

-        The alerting section of the i-scream monitoring system now makes
-        full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC
+        The alerting section of the i-scream central monitoring system
+        now makes full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC

         connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit
         connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit

-        the authors website at <a href="http://www.jibble.org">
+        the author's website at <a href="http://www.jibble.org">

         http://www.jibble.org</a>.
        </p>
        
         http://www.jibble.org</a>.
        </p>
        


@@ -26,17 +56,7 @@
         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.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl">
         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.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl">

-        here</a> on the authors website.
-       </p>
-       
-       <p align="justify">
-        <b>Tuesday 18 Dec 2001</b><br><br>
-        The i-scream ihost package has undergone significant changes to
-        make it more flexible and modular. It now incorporates plugins
-        which can be written in any language, and automatically XML
-        encodes data it is given (as opposed to the hardcoded approach
-        in the old version). It has also been made more robust, and
-        where possible optimised to reduce the load on the host system.
+        here</a> on the author's website.

        </p>
        
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        </p>
        
        <p>&nbsp;</p>


@@ -66,18 +86,15 @@
        <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
        
        <p align="justify">
        <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
        
        <p align="justify">

-        <b>Historical/Realtime graphing package</b><br><br>
+        <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>
         <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>

-        The current system for graphing i-scream data  from the i-scream
-        system is good, but proving to be unscalable and very resource
-        hungry. This is mostly due to the MySQL database backend,
-        and the vast quantity of data recorded. The new system
-        in development makes use of <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org/">
-        RRDtool</a> to generate the graphs in realtime. This reduces
-        the peak loads of the system, and allows generation of more
-        flexible graphs. This work is nearing completetion.
+        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.

        </p>
        </p>

-       
+

        <p align="justify">
         <b>Server security</b><br><br>
         Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage
        <p align="justify">
         <b>Server security</b><br><br>
         Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage