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Project News

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- Wednesday 10 March 2004

- libstatgrab 0.9 has been released. -

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- Tuesday 15 July 2003

- We have moved the i-scream support and bug tracking to a new - facility on the i-scream server. For further details please - see this page. -

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- Sunday 8 June 2003

- The i-scream website, email, and cvs facilities are now all - run from a FreeBSD server.
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- Tuesday 4 February 2003

- 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 contacted - us with any questions or bugs.

- The downloads will be available on our snapshot server :-
- - http://snapshots.i-scream.org/. -

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- Saturday 1 June 2002

- 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 - Pete. Until we update the downloads - pages you can download the new ihost - - here. -

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- Tuesday 21 May 2002

- We've finally put the finishing touches to the new - RRDtool 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 - CVS. -

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- Tuesday 8 Jan 2002

- 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 - here on the author's website. -

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About i-scream

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- - Details of the i-scream central monitoring system can be found - on the features and overview page. - A variety of screen shots from the - system show some of the key features in use. The reports demo - page provides a static example of what the i-scream reports (alerts, - historical graphs, and live data) could look like on a production system. -

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- - The latest source code is available in the CVS - repository, with binary downloads on the downloads page. The - documentation 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 dev@i-scream.org. -

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Current Work

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- Extending monitoring facilites

- - 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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- Server security

- 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. -

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- Testing and Development

- - 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. -

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Project History

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- - 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 at Canterbury, 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 - core development team. -

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- - 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. -

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- - 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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