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  <h1 class="top">i-scream CMS homepage</h1>

  <div id="topnav">
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
      <li><a href="#screenshots">Screen Shots</a></li>
      <li><a href="#demo">Reports Demo</a></li>
      <li><a href="#downloads">Downloads</a></li>
      <li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
      <li><a href="#history">Project History</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>

  <h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2>
  <p>
     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.
  </p>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="features.shtml">Features</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>
    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.
  </p>

  <h2><a name="screenshots">Screen Shots</a></h2>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="screenshots/">Screen Shots</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>
    These screenshots were taken at the end of the project, and
    therefore show the old build given below, and none of our new
    features.
  </p>

  <h2><a name="demo">Reports Demo</a></h2>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="reports/">Demo</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>
    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.
  </p>

  <h2><a name="downloads">Downloads</a></h2>

  <h3>Snapshot Builds</h3>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org">Snapshots</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>
    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.
  </p>
  <p>
    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.
  </p>

  <h3>Old Builds (from project completion)</h3>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="/pub/i-scream/cms/">Old Builds</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>
    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.
  </p>

  <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>

  <h3>Product documentation</h3>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="documentation/">Documentation</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>
    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.
  </p>

  <h3>Javadoc documentation</h3>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="javadoc/">Javadoc</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>
    Each component of the CMS written in java has fairly extensive
    javadoc documentation that helps to explain the code and API's.
  </p>

  <h3>Process documentation</h3>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="minutes.shtml">Meeting Minutes</a></li>
    <li><a href="projectpapers.shtml">Documentation</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>
    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.
  </p>

  <h2><a name="history">Project History</a></h2>

  <p>
    The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off
    as a final year project for a group of <a
    href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/"> Computer Science</a> students
    at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/"> University of Kent</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 event, however.
  </p>
  <p>
    As can be seen in our &quot;<a href="features.shtml">problem
    domain</a>&quot; document, the project was aimed at the UKC
    Computer Science department, and as such we believed that a
    demonstration to the &quot;customer&quot; 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.
  </p>
  <p>
    The name <i>i-scream</i> 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>i-scream</i>. And thus, we were left
    with a cunning play on words - it still sounded like <i>ice
    cream</i>, yet also served as a functional description of our
    system - namely, one which screams at somebody if something has
    gone wrong...
  </p>

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Revision:	1.1
Committed:	Sun Mar 21 23:58:13 2004 UTC (20 years, 8 months ago) by tdb
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Log Message:	Commit new website. The old site is tagged, so this won't change the live site... but it does move HEAD on to the new site. Too many changes to list really. General points are: - Moved to a XHTML CSS compliant site. - Reorganised the site into a more multi-project based look. - Removed a lot of cruft. Still to do: - Fix all the zillions of bugs stopping the whole site from validating :-) - Tidy up the HTML in terms of layout and indentation. Thanks to AJ for his help this weekend in doing this.
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7			<title>i-scream CMS homepage</title>
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13			<div id="container">
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18
19			<div id="contents">
20			<h1 class="top">i-scream CMS homepage</h1>
21
22			<div id="topnav">
23			<ul>
24			<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
25			<li><a href="#screenshots">Screen Shots</a></li>
26			<li><a href="#demo">Reports Demo</a></li>
27			<li><a href="#downloads">Downloads</a></li>
28			<li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
29			<li><a href="#history">Project History</a></li>
30			</ul>
31			</div>
32
33			<h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2>
34			<p>
35			The i-scream central monitoring system provides a free, centrally
36			configurable distributed server to monitor the status and
37			performance of Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows machines
38			on a network. The server can raise alerts using email, IRC or
39			a large public information display. Information may also be
40			browsed interactively via the web or using our multi-platform
41			client.
42			</p>
43			<ul>
44			<li><a href="features.shtml">Features</a></li>
45			</ul>
46			<p>
47			Follow the link above for the original problem specification
48			we were given to develop the i-scream CMS, and the feature set
49			of the CMS after it was finished.
50			</p>
51
52			<h2><a name="screenshots">Screen Shots</a></h2>
53			<ul>
54			<li><a href="screenshots/">Screen Shots</a></li>
55			</ul>
56			<p>
57			These screenshots were taken at the end of the project, and
58			therefore show the old build given below, and none of our new
59			features.
60			</p>
61
62			<h2><a name="demo">Reports Demo</a></h2>
63			<ul>
64			<li><a href="reports/">Demo</a></li>
65			</ul>
66			<p>
67			This is a demo of the web-based reports that the i-scream system
68			can do. It's taken from the old builds, so doesn't show any of
69			the new RRDTool based features.
70			</p>
71
72			<h2><a name="downloads">Downloads</a></h2>
73
74			<h3>Snapshot Builds</h3>
75			<ul>
76			<li><a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org">Snapshots</a></li>
77			</ul>
78			<p>
79			Since the project was completed various changes have happened
80			in the CMS. These are undocumented, but fairly straightforward.
81			We'd strongly suggest you use this version of the CMS rather
82			than the builds from the end of the project.
83			</p>
84			<p>
85			We've done a fair amount of work on the graphing/database side
86			of the CMS, and fixed numerous bugs. Also, the new ihost/libstatgrab
87			combination requires the snapshot builds.
88			</p>
89
90			<h3>Old Builds (from project completion)</h3>
91			<ul>
92			<li><a href="/pub/i-scream/cms/">Old Builds</a></li>
93			</ul>
94			<p>
95			These builds were completed at the end of the project itself.
96			They match with the documentation below, and work. But we've
97			done a fair amount of work since creating them.
98			</p>
99
100			<h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
101
102			<h3>Product documentation</h3>
103			<ul>
104			<li><a href="documentation/">Documentation</a></li>
105			</ul>
106			<p>
107			This documentation was written as the CMS project was completed.
108			It therefore applies to the downloads available from the time
109			the project finished. There will definately be descrepences
110			between this documentation and the snapshot builds.
111			</p>
112
113			<h3>Javadoc documentation</h3>
114			<ul>
115			<li><a href="javadoc/">Javadoc</a></li>
116			</ul>
117			<p>
118			Each component of the CMS written in java has fairly extensive
119			javadoc documentation that helps to explain the code and API's.
120			</p>
121
122			<h3>Process documentation</h3>
123			<ul>
124			<li><a href="minutes.shtml">Meeting Minutes</a></li>
125			<li><a href="projectpapers.shtml">Documentation</a></li>
126			</ul>
127			<p>
128			Various pieces of documentation were generated during the project
129			that were intended for internal use. They're not required reading
130			for running the CMS, but might be interesting if you're curious
131			about the project itself.
132			</p>
133
134			<h2><a name="history">Project History</a></h2>
135
136			<p>
137			The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off
138			as a final year project for a group of <a
139			href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/"> Computer Science</a> students
140			at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/"> University of Kent</a>,
141			UK. The project was completed at 4pm on 29 March 2001. It
142			consisted of five lever-arch folders containing mostly source
143			code and documentation. The CVS repository was tagged to signify
144			this event, however.
145			</p>
146			<p>
147			As can be seen in our "<a href="features.shtml">problem
148			domain</a>" document, the project was aimed at the UKC
149			Computer Science department, and as such we believed that a
150			demonstration to the "customer" was important. The
151			feedback from our demonstation was more positive than we had
152			anticipated. We believe that the system may now be of interest
153			to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of machines on their
154			network using a central configuration. The i-scream central
155			monitoring system is now being used by the UKC Computer Science
156			department, and their feedback is being used to further improve
157			the product.
158			</p>
159			<p>
160			The name <i>i-scream</i> arose from a meeting whereupon one
161			member of the development team felt a strange urge to draw an
162			ice cream on the discussion board. It later became apparent
163			that we had no name for our project (other than 'The Project').
164			It seemed only natural to name our project after the ice cream
165			that had been oh-so-randomly drawn on the white board. Copyright
166			issues immediately ruled out anything involving Mr Whippy, so
167			we had to settle for <i>i-scream</i>. And thus, we were left
168			with a cunning play on words - it still sounded like <i>ice
169			cream</i>, yet also served as a functional description of our
170			system - namely, one which screams at somebody if something has
171			gone wrong...
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