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+ <title>i-scream screenshots / overview</title>
+ <meta name="description" content="The i-scream central monitoring system runs distributed on Unix, Linux and Windows NT/2000 servers.">
+ <meta name="keywords" content="i-scream, screenshots, distributed, central, monitoring, system, project, unix, linux, nt, 2000, server, alert, email, winhost, ihost, conient">
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+
+<div align="center">
+ <center>
+ <table border="0" cellspacing="10" width="500" cellpadding="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" colspan="2">
+ <h1 align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000066">i-scream
+ screenshots</font></h1>
+ <h3 align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000066">(or the 5 minute
+ tour)</font></h3>
+ </center>
+ <p><font size="2" face="Arial">This page provides a sequence of
+ screenshots to help you to gain a better understanding of the i-scream
+ distributed central monitoring system and how it may be applied in
+ networked environments. Click on the thumbnails to view the full
+ size screenshots.</font></p>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <center>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="77"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><font color="#000066"><font face="Arial"><b>Reports Centre</b></font><b><font face="Arial">
+ (Web)</font></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The i-scream reports centre provides a central access point to all
+ web-based reports that are provided by the i-scream system. Reports
+ are available to display information about the current status of an
+ individual machine and any alerts pertaining to either an individual
+ machine, or a summary of alerts for all machines. Historical
+ information about monitored machines may also be accessed from this point.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="104"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Latest Information
+ (Web)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Here we are viewing the latest information provided by a host. Bars
+ are used to represent values such as disk space and free memory as this
+ makes it easier to spot casual problems. The small graph icons link
+ to historical reports of each field for the previous day. The choice
+ of fields to display on this page is stored in a separate configuration
+ file.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="110"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial"><font color="#000066">Conient (Multiplatform
+ real-time client)</font><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Conient is a real-time client that
+ can hook into an i-scream server to allow the user to view host
+ information as it passes through the server. The client displays
+ information provided by the hosts as well as the results of service checks
+ performed by the server on each host (eg FTP, Telnet, etc). Conient
+ is written in Java and can thus be run on most operating systems.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-platform-info.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-platform-info.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="59"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient (Viewing
+ extra data)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Less important host information may be viewed in a seperate window to
+ avoid clutter in Conient's display. Details of the protocol for
+ host-to-server communications are freely available to developers.
+ The protocol itself is extensible and client programs such as Conient
+ display even unrecognised data from modified host programs.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-config.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-config.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="48"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient
+ (Configuration)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Conient is fully configurable from within the program itself.
+ Multiple configurations may be saved. Conient can also be configured
+ to connect to a server through a firewall via an SSH tunnel or suchlike.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="ihost-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="51"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">ihost (Unix/Linux
+ host)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The ihost is currently the main Unix/Linux/FreeBSD host application for
+ i-scream. ihost is centrally configured by the server it connects to
+ and periodically sends information about the machine on which it is
+ running. The ihost is written in Perl, so can be easily altered to
+ send extra information to your i-scream server.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="winhost-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="62"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">WinHost (Windows
+ host)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The WinHost is similar in concept to the ihost, however, this one runs on
+ Windows NT/2000 servers. Again, the configuration is dynamically
+ obtained from the server. The WinHost is typically only present in
+ the Windows system tray. Double clicking on the system tray icon
+ will bring up a small window that allows data to be viewed and to force
+ reconfiguration with the server.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="alerter-email.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="74"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Email)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The i-scream server includes many alerting mechanisms. Simple email
+ alerts may be sent out if desired. Alert levels and frequencies may
+ be configured for the server. This screenshot shows the format of a
+ typical alert; the contents of which are of course configurable.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="alerter-irc.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-alerter-irc.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="95"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (IRC bot)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Another i-scream alerter comes in the form of an interactive IRC bot.
+ This may reside in an IRC (Internet relay chat) channel and broadcasts
+ alerts if told to do so. This screenshot shows a typical interaction
+ with a user in the "Bersirc" IRC client.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-alerts-all.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-alerts-all.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="96"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Web page)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Individual alerts and a summary of all alerts raised by the i-scream
+ server may be viewed on the alerts web pages. These show the
+ different levels of alerts in configurable colours and provides specific
+ details about the alerts being raised for each machine.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-public-autoscroll.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-public-autoscroll.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="78"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Public
+ helpdesk display)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The reports centre also provides a
+ page that may be useful in configuring non-interactive public displays of
+ alerts. These displays automatically refresh the page periodically
+ and supported web browsers may also automatically scroll the page to allow
+ a large font to be employed for easier reading from a distance.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-queues.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-queues.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="159"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient (Server queue
+ monitoring)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The Conient client may also be used
+ to monitor information about the i-scream server itself. Here we are
+ viewing the status of the internal queues within the server. This
+ shows that the server is performing healthily and that there are no
+ bottlenecks. </font></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-load15.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="107"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Historical reports
+ (Web)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Historical information is collated
+ by the i-scream server into (typically) a MySQL database. A separate
+ program is used to produce the historical web reports These may be browsed
+ via this web-based interface (see screenshot). The reports to be
+ generated for each machine and the size of the page are of course
+ configurable.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-users.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-users.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="96"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Historical reports
+ (Metadata)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The historical report generation
+ also produces a number of other files that may be useful for third party
+ analysis tools. The chart itself is written as a GIF image, as well
+ as a small file suitable for including on PHP pages that specifies the
+ minimum and maximum values during the 24 hour period. A file
+ containing the raw plot data is also produced to enable the use of third
+ party on-the-fly plotting tools.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="server-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-server-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="100"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">The i-scream server</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The server is distributed and may
+ therefore have multiple points of data entry and run on more than one
+ machine. This helps to reduce the amount of host traffic over large
+ networks and reduces potential bottlenecks. The server is written in
+ Java to allow it to run on most operating systems. This exciting
+ screenshot shows the i-scream server running ;-)</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </center>
+</div>
+
+
+
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+<!--
+ index.shtml
+ Created by pjm2 25/05/2001
+ Last edited 25/05/2001
+-->
+
+<html>
+
+<head>
+ <title>i-scream screenshots / overview</title>
+ <meta name="description" content="The i-scream central monitoring system runs distributed on Unix, Linux and Windows NT/2000 servers.">
+ <meta name="keywords" content="i-scream, screenshots, distributed, central, monitoring, system, project, unix, linux, nt, 2000, server, alert, email, winhost, ihost, conient">
+ <meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
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+<body bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ff" alink="#3333cc" vlink="#3333cc" text="#000066">
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">
+<!--#include virtual="../left.inc" -->
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top">
+<!--#include virtual="../title.inc" -->
+<font size="2">
+
+
+
+
+<div align="center">
+ <center>
+ <table border="0" cellspacing="10" width="500" cellpadding="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" colspan="2">
+ <h1 align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000066">i-scream
+ screenshots</font></h1>
+ <h3 align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000066">(or the 5 minute
+ tour)</font></h3>
+ </center>
+ <p><font size="2" face="Arial">This page provides a sequence of
+ screenshots to help you to gain a better understanding of the i-scream
+ distributed central monitoring system and how it may be applied in
+ networked environments. Click on the thumbnails to view the full
+ size screenshots.</font></p>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <center>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="77"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><font color="#000066"><font face="Arial"><b>Reports Centre</b></font><b><font face="Arial">
+ (Web)</font></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The i-scream reports centre provides a central access point to all
+ web-based reports that are provided by the i-scream system. Reports
+ are available to display information about the current status of an
+ individual machine and any alerts pertaining to either an individual
+ machine, or a summary of alerts for all machines. Historical
+ information about monitored machines may also be accessed from this point.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="104"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Latest Information
+ (Web)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Here we are viewing the latest information provided by a host. Bars
+ are used to represent values such as disk space and free memory as this
+ makes it easier to spot casual problems. The small graph icons link
+ to historical reports of each field for the previous day. The choice
+ of fields to display on this page is stored in a separate configuration
+ file.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="110"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial"><font color="#000066">Conient (Multiplatform
+ real-time client)</font><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Conient is a real-time client that
+ can hook into an i-scream server to allow the user to view host
+ information as it passes through the server. The client displays
+ information provided by the hosts as well as the results of service checks
+ performed by the server on each host (eg FTP, Telnet, etc). Conient
+ is written in Java and can thus be run on most operating systems.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-platform-info.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-platform-info.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="59"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient (Viewing
+ extra data)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Less important host information may be viewed in a seperate window to
+ avoid clutter in Conient's display. Details of the protocol for
+ host-to-server communications are freely available to developers.
+ The protocol itself is extensible and client programs such as Conient
+ display even unrecognised data from modified host programs.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-config.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-config.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="48"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient
+ (Configuration)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Conient is fully configurable from within the program itself.
+ Multiple configurations may be saved. Conient can also be configured
+ to connect to a server through a firewall via an SSH tunnel or suchlike.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="ihost-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="51"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">ihost (Unix/Linux
+ host)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The ihost is currently the main Unix/Linux/FreeBSD host application for
+ i-scream. ihost is centrally configured by the server it connects to
+ and periodically sends information about the machine on which it is
+ running. The ihost is written in Perl, so can be easily altered to
+ send extra information to your i-scream server.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="winhost-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="62"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">WinHost (Windows
+ host)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The WinHost is similar in concept to the ihost, however, this one runs on
+ Windows NT/2000 servers. Again, the configuration is dynamically
+ obtained from the server. The WinHost is typically only present in
+ the Windows system tray. Double clicking on the system tray icon
+ will bring up a small window that allows data to be viewed and to force
+ reconfiguration with the server.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="alerter-email.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="74"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Email)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The i-scream server includes many alerting mechanisms. Simple email
+ alerts may be sent out if desired. Alert levels and frequencies may
+ be configured for the server. This screenshot shows the format of a
+ typical alert; the contents of which are of course configurable.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="alerter-irc.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-alerter-irc.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="95"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (IRC bot)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Another i-scream alerter comes in the form of an interactive IRC bot.
+ This may reside in an IRC (Internet relay chat) channel and broadcasts
+ alerts if told to do so. This screenshot shows a typical interaction
+ with a user in the "Bersirc" IRC client.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-alerts-all.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-alerts-all.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="96"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Web page)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Individual alerts and a summary of all alerts raised by the i-scream
+ server may be viewed on the alerts web pages. These show the
+ different levels of alerts in configurable colours and provides specific
+ details about the alerts being raised for each machine.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-public-autoscroll.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-public-autoscroll.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="78"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Public
+ helpdesk display)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The reports centre also provides a
+ page that may be useful in configuring non-interactive public displays of
+ alerts. These displays automatically refresh the page periodically
+ and supported web browsers may also automatically scroll the page to allow
+ a large font to be employed for easier reading from a distance.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-queues.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-queues.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="159"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient (Server queue
+ monitoring)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The Conient client may also be used
+ to monitor information about the i-scream server itself. Here we are
+ viewing the status of the internal queues within the server. This
+ shows that the server is performing healthily and that there are no
+ bottlenecks. </font></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-load15.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="107"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Historical reports
+ (Web)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Historical information is collated
+ by the i-scream server into (typically) a MySQL database. A separate
+ program is used to produce the historical web reports These may be browsed
+ via this web-based interface (see screenshot). The reports to be
+ generated for each machine and the size of the page are of course
+ configurable.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-users.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-users.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="96"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Historical reports
+ (Metadata)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The historical report generation
+ also produces a number of other files that may be useful for third party
+ analysis tools. The chart itself is written as a GIF image, as well
+ as a small file suitable for including on PHP pages that specifies the
+ minimum and maximum values during the 24 hour period. A file
+ containing the raw plot data is also produced to enable the use of third
+ party on-the-fly plotting tools.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="server-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-server-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="100"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">The i-scream server</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The server is distributed and may
+ therefore have multiple points of data entry and run on more than one
+ machine. This helps to reduce the amount of host traffic over large
+ networks and reduces potential bottlenecks. The server is written in
+ Java to allow it to run on most operating systems. This exciting
+ screenshot shows the i-scream server running ;-)</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </center>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<!--#include virtual="../bottom.inc" -->
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
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+</html>
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
+
+<!--
+ index.shtml
+ Created by pjm2 25/05/2001
+ Last edited 25/05/2001
+-->
+
+<html>
+
+<head>
+ <title>i-scream screenshots / overview</title>
+ <meta name="description" content="The i-scream central monitoring system runs distributed on Unix, Linux and Windows NT/2000 servers.">
+ <meta name="keywords" content="i-scream, screenshots, distributed, central, monitoring, system, project, unix, linux, nt, 2000, server, alert, email, winhost, ihost, conient">
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+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">
+<!--#include virtual="../left.inc" -->
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top">
+<!--#include virtual="../title.inc" -->
+<font size="2">
+
+
+
+
+<div align="center">
+ <center>
+ <table border="0" cellspacing="10" width="500" cellpadding="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" colspan="2">
+ <h1 align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000066">i-scream
+ screenshots</font></h1>
+ <h3 align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000066">(or the 5 minute
+ tour)</font></h3>
+ </center>
+ <p><font size="2" face="Arial">This page provides a sequence of
+ screenshots to help you to gain a better understanding of the i-scream
+ distributed central monitoring system and how it may be applied in
+ networked environments. Click on the thumbnails to view the full
+ size screenshots.</font></p>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <center>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="77"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><font color="#000066"><font face="Arial"><b>Reports Centre</b></font><b><font face="Arial">
+ (Web)</font></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The i-scream reports centre provides a central access point to all
+ web-based reports that are provided by the i-scream system. Reports
+ are available to display information about the current status of an
+ individual machine and any alerts pertaining to either an individual
+ machine, or a summary of alerts for all machines. Historical
+ information about monitored machines may also be accessed from this point.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="104"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Latest Information
+ (Web)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Here we are viewing the latest information provided by a host. Bars
+ are used to represent values such as disk space and free memory as this
+ makes it easier to spot casual problems. The small graph icons link
+ to historical reports of each field for the previous day. The choice
+ of fields to display on this page is stored in a separate configuration
+ file.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="110"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial"><font color="#000066">Conient (Multiplatform
+ real-time client)</font><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Conient is a real-time client that
+ can hook into an i-scream server to allow the user to view host
+ information as it passes through the server. The client displays
+ information provided by the hosts as well as the results of service checks
+ performed by the server on each host (eg FTP, Telnet, etc). Conient
+ is written in Java and can thus be run on most operating systems.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-platform-info.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-platform-info.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="59"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient (Viewing
+ extra data)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Less important host information may be viewed in a seperate window to
+ avoid clutter in Conient's display. Details of the protocol for
+ host-to-server communications are freely available to developers.
+ The protocol itself is extensible and client programs such as Conient
+ display even unrecognised data from modified host programs.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-config.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-config.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="48"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient
+ (Configuration)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Conient is fully configurable from within the program itself.
+ Multiple configurations may be saved. Conient can also be configured
+ to connect to a server through a firewall via an SSH tunnel or suchlike.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="ihost-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="51"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">ihost (Unix/Linux
+ host)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The ihost is currently the main Unix/Linux/FreeBSD host application for
+ i-scream. ihost is centrally configured by the server it connects to
+ and periodically sends information about the machine on which it is
+ running. The ihost is written in Perl, so can be easily altered to
+ send extra information to your i-scream server.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="winhost-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="62"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">WinHost (Windows
+ host)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The WinHost is similar in concept to the ihost, however, this one runs on
+ Windows NT/2000 servers. Again, the configuration is dynamically
+ obtained from the server. The WinHost is typically only present in
+ the Windows system tray. Double clicking on the system tray icon
+ will bring up a small window that allows data to be viewed and to force
+ reconfiguration with the server.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="alerter-email.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="74"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Email)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ The i-scream server includes many alerting mechanisms. Simple email
+ alerts may be sent out if desired. Alert levels and frequencies may
+ be configured for the server. This screenshot shows the format of a
+ typical alert; the contents of which are of course configurable.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="alerter-irc.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-alerter-irc.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="95"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (IRC bot)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Another i-scream alerter comes in the form of an interactive IRC bot.
+ This may reside in an IRC (Internet relay chat) channel and broadcasts
+ alerts if told to do so. This screenshot shows a typical interaction
+ with a user in the "Bersirc" IRC client.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-alerts-all.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-alerts-all.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="96"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Web page)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ Individual alerts and a summary of all alerts raised by the i-scream
+ server may be viewed on the alerts web pages. These show the
+ different levels of alerts in configurable colours and provides specific
+ details about the alerts being raised for each machine.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-public-autoscroll.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-public-autoscroll.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="78"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Public
+ helpdesk display)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The reports centre also provides a
+ page that may be useful in configuring non-interactive public displays of
+ alerts. These displays automatically refresh the page periodically
+ and supported web browsers may also automatically scroll the page to allow
+ a large font to be employed for easier reading from a distance.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="conient-queues.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-conient-queues.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="159"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient (Server queue
+ monitoring)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The Conient client may also be used
+ to monitor information about the i-scream server itself. Here we are
+ viewing the status of the internal queues within the server. This
+ shows that the server is performing healthily and that there are no
+ bottlenecks. </font></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-load15.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="107"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Historical reports
+ (Web)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Historical information is collated
+ by the i-scream server into (typically) a MySQL database. A separate
+ program is used to produce the historical web reports These may be browsed
+ via this web-based interface (see screenshot). The reports to be
+ generated for each machine and the size of the page are of course
+ configurable.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="reports-raptor-users.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-reports-raptor-users.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="96"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Historical reports
+ (Metadata)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The historical report generation
+ also produces a number of other files that may be useful for third party
+ analysis tools. The chart itself is written as a GIF image, as well
+ as a small file suitable for including on PHP pages that specifies the
+ minimum and maximum values during the 24 hour period. A file
+ containing the raw plot data is also produced to enable the use of third
+ party on-the-fly plotting tools.</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="server-main.gif"><img border="0" src="thumbnail-server-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="100"></a></font>
+ <p> </td>
+ <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">The i-scream server</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
+ </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The server is distributed and may
+ therefore have multiple points of data entry and run on more than one
+ machine. This helps to reduce the amount of host traffic over large
+ networks and reduces potential bottlenecks. The server is written in
+ Java to allow it to run on most operating systems. This exciting
+ screenshot shows the i-scream server running ;-)</font>
+ <p> </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </center>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<!--#include virtual="../bottom.inc" -->
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+</body>
+</html>
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