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- <center><h3>Current Status</h3></center>
+ <center><h3>Project News</h3></center>
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+ <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="http://ukc.i-screma.org.uk/snapshots/ihost-1.0rc1.tar.gz">
+ here</a>.
+ </p>
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- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
- All i-scream components now function to initial
- design parameters and our system is regarded to be complete.
- <b><a href="documentation/">Documentation</a></b> is available to assist third party programmers
- in producing Hosts for use with the i-scream server.
- Our progress during the project can be found in the meeting minutes.
- Code is viewable via <a href="cvs.shtml">CVS</a>.
+ <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>.
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- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" width="100" height="62" align="right"></a>
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- The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System Reports
- are now visible on the web. If you are <b>not</b> a local user, then you may
- view some of the output in the <b><a href="screenshots/">screen shots</a></b> section or you may view some
- static example content on the <a href="reports/"><b>Reports Demo</b></a> pages.
- You may view the latest information about each machine, historical 24-hour
- reports and alerts for each machine. Our own i-scream server is running constantly,
- along with several hosts to enable plenty of data harvesting. If you would
- like your i-scream web reports to be linked from this site, then please email us
- at <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a>
+ <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.
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- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-main.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
- Our current host development allows us to pass machine statistics
- to our distributed filter arrangement, which then processes the
- data and stores it for later use. An example of such use is the
- historical report generator which produces graphs of machine
- usage over periods of time. A real-time
- client is also available (Conient) and alert information can be
- displayed to the public via dynamic web pages.
+ <b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br>
+ 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
+ the author's website at <a href="http://www.jibble.org">
+ http://www.jibble.org</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 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.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a>.
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+ <p> </p>
+ <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
+
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- <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" width="100" height="107" align="right"></a>
- The latest builds of the i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System
- are now available for <b><a href="/downloads/">download</a></b> from this
- website. To assist in our addition of features to the system, we
- would be extremely grateful to receive feedback from anybody who has
- any comments about the system. You may email the development team
- at <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a>
+ <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.
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+ <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>
+
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- <center><h3>Project Completion</h3></center>
+ <center><h3>Project History</h3></center>
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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">University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK.
- The project deadline was 4pm on 29th March 2001. Most of the group
- met very early that morning to compile the project into five
- lever arch folders. The project, consisting of source code, user,
- maintenance and other documents, was handed in at 3pm. The CVS
- repository was tagged to signify the project's completion, however,
- the project is still being developed by the <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">core development team</a>
- as we have found the system to be very useful in practice. We would
- love to hear of ideas for extra features that we may include in the
- next builds.
+ 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">
+ 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>.
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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 great
- interest to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of machines
- on their network using a central configuration.
+ 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.
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The name <i>i-scream</i> arose from a meeting whereupon one member
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