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      i-scream CMS homepage
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            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 id="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.xhtml">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 id="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 id="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 id="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="http://ftp.i-scream.org/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 id="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 descrepencies 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.xhtml">Meeting Minutes</a>
            </li>
            <li>
              <a href="projectpapers.xhtml">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 id="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 "<a href="features.xhtml">problem
            domain</a>" 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.
          </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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13			<h1 class="top">
14			i-scream CMS homepage
15			</h1>
16			<div id="topnav">
17			<ul>
18			<li>
19			<a href="#overview">Overview</a>
20			</li>
21			<li>
22			<a href="#screenshots">Screen Shots</a>
23			</li>
24			<li>
25			<a href="#demo">Reports Demo</a>
26			</li>
27			<li>
28			<a href="#downloads">Downloads</a>
29			</li>
30			<li>
31			<a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
32			</li>
33			<li>
34			<a href="#history">Project History</a>
35			</li>
36			</ul>
37			</div>
38			<h2>
39			<a id="overview">Overview</a>
40			</h2>
41			<p>
42			The i-scream central monitoring system provides a free,
43			centrally configurable distributed server to monitor the
44			status and performance of Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and
45			Windows machines on a network. The server can raise alerts
46			using email, IRC or a large public information display.
47			Information may also be browsed interactively via the web
48			or using our multi-platform client.
49			</p>
50			<ul>
51			<li>
52			<a href="features.xhtml">Features</a>
53			</li>
54			</ul>
55			<p>
56			Follow the link above for the original problem
57			specification we were given to develop the i-scream CMS,
58			and the feature set of the CMS after it was finished.
59			</p>
60			<h2>
61			<a id="screenshots">Screen Shots</a>
62			</h2>
63			<ul>
64			<li>
65			<a href="screenshots/">Screen Shots</a>
66			</li>
67			</ul>
68			<p>
69			These screenshots were taken at the end of the project, and
70			therefore show the old build given below, and none of our
71			new features.
72			</p>
73			<h2>
74			<a id="demo">Reports Demo</a>
75			</h2>
76			<ul>
77			<li>
78			<a href="reports/">Demo</a>
79			</li>
80			</ul>
81			<p>
82			This is a demo of the web-based reports that the i-scream
83			system can do. It's taken from the old builds, so doesn't
84			show any of the new RRDTool based features.
85			</p>
86			<h2>
87			<a id="downloads">Downloads</a>
88			</h2>
89			<h3>
90			Snapshot Builds
91			</h3>
92			<ul>
93			<li>
94			<a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org">Snapshots</a>
95			</li>
96			</ul>
97			<p>
98			Since the project was completed various changes have
99			happened in the CMS. These are undocumented, but fairly
100			straightforward. We'd strongly suggest you use this version
101			of the CMS rather than the builds from the end of the
102			project.
103			</p>
104			<p>
105			We've done a fair amount of work on the graphing/database
106			side of the CMS, and fixed numerous bugs. Also, the new
107			ihost/libstatgrab combination requires the snapshot builds.
108			</p>
109			<h3>
110			Old Builds (from project completion)
111			</h3>
112			<ul>
113			<li>
114	tdb	1.7	<a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/cms/">
115	tdb	1.4	Old Builds</a>
116			</li>
117			</ul>
118			<p>
119			These builds were completed at the end of the project
120			itself. They match with the documentation below, and work.
121			But we've done a fair amount of work since creating them.
122			</p>
123			<h2>
124			<a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
125			</h2>
126			<h3>
127			Product documentation
128			</h3>
129			<ul>
130			<li>
131			<a href="documentation/">Documentation</a>
132			</li>
133			</ul>
134			<p>
135			This documentation was written as the CMS project was
136			completed. It therefore applies to the downloads available
137			from the time the project finished. There will definately
138	tdb	1.5	be descrepencies between this documentation and the snapshot
139	tdb	1.4	builds.
140			</p>
141			<h3>
142			Javadoc documentation
143			</h3>
144			<ul>
145			<li>
146			<a href="javadoc/">Javadoc</a>
147			</li>
148			</ul>
149			<p>
150			Each component of the CMS written in java has fairly
151			extensive javadoc documentation that helps to explain the
152			code and API's.
153			</p>
154			<h3>
155			Process documentation
156			</h3>
157			<ul>
158			<li>
159			<a href="minutes.xhtml">Meeting Minutes</a>
160			</li>
161			<li>
162			<a href="projectpapers.xhtml">Documentation</a>
163			</li>
164			</ul>
165			<p>
166			Various pieces of documentation were generated during the
167			project that were intended for internal use. They're not
168			required reading for running the CMS, but might be
169			interesting if you're curious about the project itself.
170			</p>
171			<h2>
172			<a id="history">Project History</a>
173			</h2>
174			<p>
175			The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System
176			started off as a final year project for a group of
177			<a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/">Computer Science</a>
178			students at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/">University
179			of Kent</a>, UK. The project was completed at 4pm on
180			29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders
181			containing mostly source code and documentation. The
182			CVS repository was tagged to signify this event, however.
183			</p>
184			<p>
185			As can be seen in our "<a href="features.xhtml">problem
186			domain</a>" document, the project was aimed at the UKC
187			Computer Science department, and as such we believed that a
188			demonstration to the "customer" was important. The feedback
189			from our demonstation was more positive than we had
190			anticipated. We believe that the system may now be of
191			interest to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of
192			machines on their network using a central configuration.
193			The i-scream central monitoring system is now being used by
194			the UKC Computer Science department, and their feedback is
195			being used to further improve the product.
196			</p>
197			<p>
198			The name <i>i-scream</i> arose from a meeting whereupon one
199			member of the development team felt a strange urge to draw
200			an ice cream on the discussion board. It later became
201			apparent that we had no name for our project (other than
202			'The Project'). It seemed only natural to name our project
203			after the ice cream that had been oh-so-randomly drawn on
204			the white board. Copyright issues immediately ruled out
205			anything involving Mr Whippy, so we had to settle for
206			<i>i-scream</i>. And thus, we were left with a cunning play
207			on words - it still sounded like <i>ice cream</i>, yet also
208			served as a functional description of our system - namely,
209			one which screams at somebody if something has gone
210			wrong...
211			</p>
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