From: Tim Bishop <tim@bishnet.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:29:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Updated the Project News and Current Work webpages.
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Updated the Project News and Current Work webpages.
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<center><h3>Project News</h3></center>
+ <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 see an
+ efficient host at last! 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://kernow.ukc.ac.uk/snapshots/ihost-1.0rc1.tar.gz">
+ 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://www.i-scream.org.uk/cgi-bin/cvs/viewcvs.cgi/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/"
+ CVS</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p align="justify">
+ <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.
+ </p>
+
<p align="justify">
<b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br>
The alerting section of the i-scream central monitoring system
@@ -29,16 +59,6 @@
here</a> on the author's 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.
- </p>
-
<p> </p>
<center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center>
@@ -66,18 +86,15 @@
<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.
</p>
-
+
<p align="justify">
<b>Server security</b><br><br>
Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage