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i-scream CMS homepage |
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i-scream CMS homepage |
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<a href="#overview">Overview</a> |
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<a href="#screenshots">Screen Shots</a> |
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<a href="#demo">Reports Demo</a> |
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<a href="#downloads">Downloads</a> |
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<a href="#documentation">Documentation</a> |
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<a href="#history">Project History</a> |
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<a id="overview">Overview</a> |
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The i-scream central monitoring system provides a free, |
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centrally configurable distributed server to monitor the |
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status and performance of Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and |
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Windows machines on a network. The server can raise alerts |
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using email, IRC or a large public information display. |
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Information may also be browsed interactively via the web |
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or using our multi-platform client. |
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<a href="features.xhtml">Features</a> |
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Follow the link above for the original problem |
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specification we were given to develop the i-scream CMS, |
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and the feature set of the CMS after it was finished. |
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<a id="screenshots">Screen Shots</a> |
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<a href="screenshots/">Screen Shots</a> |
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These screenshots were taken at the end of the project, and |
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therefore show the old build given below, and none of our |
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new features. |
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<a id="demo">Reports Demo</a> |
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<a href="reports/">Demo</a> |
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This is a demo of the web-based reports that the i-scream |
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system can do. It's taken from the old builds, so doesn't |
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show any of the new RRDTool based features. |
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<a id="downloads">Downloads</a> |
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Snapshot Builds |
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<a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org">Snapshots</a> |
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Since the project was completed various changes have |
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happened in the CMS. These are undocumented, but fairly |
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straightforward. We'd strongly suggest you use this version |
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of the CMS rather than the builds from the end of the |
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project. |
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We've done a fair amount of work on the graphing/database |
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side of the CMS, and fixed numerous bugs. Also, the new |
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ihost/libstatgrab combination requires the snapshot builds. |
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Old Builds (from project completion) |
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<a href="/mirrors.xhtml">Download Mirrors</a> |
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These builds can be found in the <code>cms</code> directory |
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on our download mirrors. They were completed at the end |
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of the project itself, and match with the documentation |
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below, and work. But we've done a fair amount of work |
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since creating them. |
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<a id="documentation">Documentation</a> |
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Product documentation |
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<a href="documentation/">Documentation</a> |
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This documentation was written as the CMS project was |
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completed. It therefore applies to the downloads available |
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from the time the project finished. There will definately |
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be descrepencies between this documentation and the snapshot |
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builds. |
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Javadoc documentation |
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<a href="javadoc/">Javadoc</a> |
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Each component of the CMS written in java has fairly |
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extensive javadoc documentation that helps to explain the |
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code and API's. |
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Process documentation |
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<a href="minutes.xhtml">Meeting Minutes</a> |
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<a href="projectpapers.xhtml">Documentation</a> |
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Various pieces of documentation were generated during the |
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project that were intended for internal use. They're not |
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required reading for running the CMS, but might be |
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interesting if you're curious about the project itself. |
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<a id="history">Project History</a> |
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The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System |
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started off as a final year project for a group of |
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<a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/">Computer Science</a> |
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students at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/">University |
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of Kent</a>, UK. The project was completed at 4pm on |
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29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders |
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containing mostly source code and documentation. The |
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CVS repository was tagged to signify this event, however. |
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As can be seen in our "<a href="features.xhtml">problem |
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domain</a>" document, the project was aimed at the UKC |
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Computer Science department, and as such we believed that a |
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demonstration to the "customer" was important. The feedback |
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from our demonstation was more positive than we had |
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anticipated. We believe that the system may now be of |
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interest to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of |
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machines on their network using a central configuration. |
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The i-scream central monitoring system is now being used by |
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the UKC Computer Science department, and their feedback is |
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being used to further improve the product. |
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The name <i>i-scream</i> arose from a meeting whereupon one |
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member of the development team felt a strange urge to draw |
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an ice cream on the discussion board. It later became |
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apparent that we had no name for our project (other than |
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'The Project'). It seemed only natural to name our project |
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after the ice cream that had been oh-so-randomly drawn on |
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the white board. Copyright issues immediately ruled out |
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anything involving Mr Whippy, so we had to settle for |
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<i>i-scream</i>. And thus, we were left with a cunning play |
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on words - it still sounded like <i>ice cream</i>, yet also |
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served as a functional description of our system - namely, |
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one which screams at somebody if something has gone |
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wrong... |
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