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<center><h3>Current Status</h3></center> |
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The project is currently undergoing planning decisions. |
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The implementation of this central monitoring system is |
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expected to completed before Easter. |
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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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All i-scream components now function to initial |
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design parameters and our system is regarded to be complete. |
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<b><a href="documentation/">Documentation</a></b> is available to assist third party programmers |
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in producing Hosts for use with the i-scream server. |
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Our progress during the project can be found in the meeting minutes. |
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Code is viewable via <a href="http://raptor.ukc.ac.uk/~tdb1/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi">CVS</a> to local users users only. |
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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 Distributed Central Monitoring System <a href="http://raptor.ukc.ac.uk/~pjm2/reports">Reports</a> |
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are now visible on the web. If you are <b>not</b> a local user, then you may |
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view some of the output in the <b><a href="screenshots/">screenshots</a></b> section. |
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You may view the latest information about each machine, historical 24-hour |
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reports and alerts for each machine. Our own i-scream server is running constantly, |
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along with several hosts to enable plenty of data harvesting. If you would |
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like your i-scream web reports to be linked from this site, then please email us |
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at <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a> |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-main.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a> |
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Our current host development allows us to pass machine statistics |
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to our distributed filter arrangement, which then processes the |
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data and stores it for later use. An example of such use is the |
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historical report generator which produces graphs of machine |
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usage over periods of time. A real-time |
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client is also available (Conient) and alert information can be |
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displayed to the public via dynamic web pages. |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" width="100" height="107" align="right"></a> |
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The latest builds of the i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System |
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are now available for <b><a href="/downloads/">download</a></b> from this |
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website. To assist in our addition of features to the system, we |
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would be extremely grateful to receive feedback from anybody who has |
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any comments about the system. You may email the development team |
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at <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a> |
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<center><h3>Presentations</h3></center> |
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<center><h3>Project Completion</h3></center> |
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Our project presentations will run on Monday 16th and |
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Tuesday 17th October. Good luck, everybody. |
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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.ukc.ac.uk">Computer Science</a> students at |
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the <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk">University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK. |
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The project deadline was 4pm on 29th March 2001. Most of the group |
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met very early that morning to compile the project into five |
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lever arch folders. The project, consisting of source code, user, |
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maintenance and other documents, was handed in at 3pm. The CVS |
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repository was tagged to signify the project's completion, however, |
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the project is still being developed by the <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">core development team</a> |
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as we have found the system to be very useful in practice. We would |
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love to hear of ideas for extra features that we may include in the |
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next builds. |
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For those who are interested you can view an online version |
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of our presentation <a href="documentation/presentation/i-scream-web.htm">here</a>. |
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Alternatively you can download a powerpoint version from |
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<a href="documentation/presentation/i-scream-web.ppt"> here</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 great |
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interest to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of machines |
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on their network using a central configuration. |
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<center><h3>Naming History</h3></center> |
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The name <b>i-scream</b> arose from a meeting whereupon one member |
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of our group randomly chose to draw an ice cream on the white board. |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-config.gif" width="100" height="48" align="left"></a> |
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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 <b>i-scream</b>. And thus, we were left with a cunning |
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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 decription of our system - namely, one which |
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screams at somebody if something has gone wrong... |