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<center><h3>Project News</h3></center> |
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<b>Wednesday 21 January 2004</b><br><br> |
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<a href="/libstatgrab/">libstatgrab</a> 0.8.1 has been released. |
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<b>Tuesday 15 July 2003</b><br><br> |
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We have moved the i-scream support and bug tracking to a new |
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facility on the i-scream server. For further details please |
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see <a href="/support.shtml">this</a> page. |
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<b>Sunday 8 June 2003</b><br><br> |
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The i-scream website, email, and cvs facilities are now all |
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run from a <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> server.<br> |
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org"> |
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<img src="/powerlogo.gif" width="171" height="64" border="0" alt="Powered By FreeBSD"> |
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<b>Tuesday 4 February 2003</b><br><br> |
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Over the coming week we will be making snapshot builds of the |
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i-scream central monitoring system from the CVS repository. |
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These builds will have quite a few changes from the downloads |
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currently available (a document detailing them will be |
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released later on), so please give them a whirl. We would be |
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grateful if you <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">contacted</a> |
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us with any questions or bugs.<br><br> |
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The downloads will be available on our snapshot server :-<br> |
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<a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/"> |
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http://snapshots.i-scream.org/</a>. |
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<b>Saturday 1 June 2002</b><br><br> |
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Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has |
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been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to finally |
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see an efficient native host! Credit goes to our new developer |
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<a href="/who.shtml">Pete</a>. Until we update the downloads |
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pages you can download the new ihost |
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<a href="ftp://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/ihost/"> |
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here</a>. |
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<b>Tuesday 21 May 2002</b><br><br> |
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We've finally put the finishing touches to the new |
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<a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org">RRDtool</a> based graphing system. |
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It's working well, and has done away with the MySQL database |
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backend which took up far too many resources. This new system |
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generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more |
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flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available |
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through <a href="http://cvs.i-scream.org/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/"> |
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CVS</a>. |
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<b>Tuesday 8 Jan 2002</b><br><br> |
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Java ACL (Access Control List) code has been added to the util |
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package of the i-scream server. This code will ultimately allow |
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the server to be more secure when exposed to the Internet. More |
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details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl"> |
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here</a> on the author's website. |
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<p> </p> |
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<center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center> |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a> |
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Details of the i-scream central monitoring system can be found |
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on the <b><a href="features.shtml">features and overview</a></b> page. |
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A variety of <b><a href="screenshots">screen shots</a></b> from the |
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system show some of the key features in use. The <b><a href="reports">reports demo</a></b> |
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page provides a static example of what the i-scream reports (alerts, |
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historical graphs, and live data) could look like on a production system. |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-main.gif" width="100" height="107" align="right"></a> |
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The latest source code is available in the <b><a href="cvs.shtml">CVS</a></b> |
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repository, with binary downloads on the downloads page. The |
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<b><a href="documentation">documentation</a></b> page has details of |
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installation, use and maintenance for the end user and developer. |
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We value feedback and comments from you, so please drop us an e-mail |
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to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">dev@i-scream.org</a>. |
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<center><h3>Current Work</h3></center> |
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<b>Extending monitoring facilites</b><br><br> |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a> |
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Work is continuing, in conjunction with the new ihost, to extend |
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the range of i-scream's monitoring. Currently we are adding new |
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features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage, |
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along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve |
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the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place. |
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There are also many more subtle changes that need to be made to |
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improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring. |
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<b>Server security</b><br><br> |
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Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage |
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of this project (due to the academic nature of the work). However, |
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once in production use this has become an issue, and is being |
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addressed. Initially the plan is to lock down the external points |
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of access (TCP & UDP) in the server to specific hosts. In the |
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longer term, encryption of data would be nice, but would take a |
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lot more time and work. |
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<b>Testing and Development</b><br><br> |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" width="100" height="62" align="right"></a> |
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The i-scream system is being tested and developed within the |
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Univeristy of Kent Computer Science department by the Systems |
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Group. This has led to many bug fixes and minor feature |
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enhancements, and will hopefully help to aid the long term |
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development of the system. |
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<p> </p> |
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<center><h3>Project History</h3></center> |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" width="100" height="104" align="left"></a> |
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The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off as |
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a final year project for a group of <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk"> |
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Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk"> |
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University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK. The project was completed at |
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4pm on 29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders containing |
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mostly source code and documentation. The CVS repository was tagged to |
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signify this even, however, the project is still being developed by the |
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<a href="acknowledgements.shtml">core development team</a>. |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" width="100" height="51" align="right"></a> |
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As can be seen in our "<a href="/probdomain.shtml">problem domain</a>" document, the project |
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was aimed at the UKC Computer Science department, and as such |
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we believed that a demonstration to the "customer" was important. The |
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feedback from our demonstation was more positive than we had |
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anticipated. We believe that the system may now be of interest |
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to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of machines on their |
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network using a central configuration. The i-scream central |
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monitoring system is now being used by the UKC Computer Science |
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department, and their feedback is being used to further improve |
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the product. |
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The name <i>i-scream</i> arose from a meeting whereupon one member |
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of the <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">development team</a> felt a strange urge to draw an ice cream on the discussion board. |
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It later became apparent that we had no name for our project (other |
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than 'The Project'). It seemed only natural to name our project after |
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the ice cream that had been oh-so-randomly drawn on the white board. |
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Copyright issues immediately ruled out anything involving Mr Whippy, |
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so we had to settle for <i>i-scream</i>. And thus, we were left with a cunning |
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play 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, one which |
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screams at somebody if something has gone wrong... |
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<center><h3>Searching i-scream</h3></center> |
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