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+
+ <p align="justify">
+ <b>Wednesday 11 February 2004</b><br><br>
+ <a href="/libstatgrab/">libstatgrab</a> 0.8.2 has been released.
+ </p>
+
+ <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>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
- connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit
- the authors website at <a href="http://www.jibble.org">
- http://www.jibble.org</a>.
+ <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.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.
+ 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>
<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.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a>.
+ to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">dev@i-scream.org</a>.
</p>
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<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>
- 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.
+ There are also many more subtle changes that need to be made to
+ improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring.
</p>
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+
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<b>Server security</b><br><br>
Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage
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<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.ukc.ac.uk">
- Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk">
+ 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
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