i-scream CMS homepage
- - - -Overview
-- The i-scream central monitoring system provides a free, centrally - configurable distributed server to monitor the status and - performance of Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows machines - on a network. The server can raise alerts using email, IRC or - a large public information display. Information may also be - browsed interactively via the web or using our multi-platform - client. -
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- Features -
- Follow the link above for the original problem specification - we were given to develop the i-scream CMS, and the feature set - of the CMS after it was finished. -
- -Screen Shots
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- Screen Shots -
- These screenshots were taken at the end of the project, and - therefore show the old build given below, and none of our new - features. -
- -Reports Demo
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- Demo -
- This is a demo of the web-based reports that the i-scream system - can do. It's taken from the old builds, so doesn't show any of - the new RRDTool based features. -
- -Downloads
- -Snapshot Builds
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- Snapshots -
- Since the project was completed various changes have happened - in the CMS. These are undocumented, but fairly straightforward. - We'd strongly suggest you use this version of the CMS rather - than the builds from the end of the project. -
-- We've done a fair amount of work on the graphing/database side - of the CMS, and fixed numerous bugs. Also, the new ihost/libstatgrab - combination requires the snapshot builds. -
- -Old Builds (from project completion)
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- Old Builds -
- These builds were completed at the end of the project itself. - They match with the documentation below, and work. But we've - done a fair amount of work since creating them. -
- -Documentation
- -Product documentation
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- Documentation -
- This documentation was written as the CMS project was completed. - It therefore applies to the downloads available from the time - the project finished. There will definately be descrepences - between this documentation and the snapshot builds. -
- -Javadoc documentation
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- Javadoc -
- Each component of the CMS written in java has fairly extensive - javadoc documentation that helps to explain the code and API's. -
- -Process documentation
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- Meeting Minutes -
- Documentation -
- Various pieces of documentation were generated during the project - that were intended for internal use. They're not required reading - for running the CMS, but might be interesting if you're curious - about the project itself. -
- -Project History
- -- The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off - as a final year project for a group of Computer Science students - at the University of Kent, - 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 event, however. -
-- As can be seen in our "problem - domain" 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. -
-- The name i-scream arose from a meeting whereupon one - member of the development team 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-scream. And thus, we were left - with a cunning play on words - it still sounded like ice - cream, 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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