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Project News

+ +

+ Wednesday 11 February 2004

+ libstatgrab 0.8.2 has been released. +

+ +

+ Tuesday 15 July 2003

+ We have moved the i-scream support and bug tracking to a new + facility on the i-scream server. For further details please + see this page. +

- Thursday 7 Feb 2002

- The alerting section of the i-scream monitoring system now makes - full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC - connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit - the author's website at - http://www.jibble.org. + Sunday 8 June 2003

+ The i-scream website, email, and cvs facilities are now all + run from a FreeBSD server.
+ + Powered By FreeBSD +

+ Tuesday 4 February 2003

+ Over the coming week we will be making snapshot builds of the + i-scream central monitoring system from the CVS repository. + These builds will have quite a few changes from the downloads + currently available (a document detailing them will be + released later on), so please give them a whirl. We would be + grateful if you contacted + us with any questions or bugs.

+ The downloads will be available on our snapshot server :-
+ + http://snapshots.i-scream.org/. +

+ +

+ Saturday 1 June 2002

+ Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has + been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to finally + see an efficient native host! Credit goes to our new developer + Pete. Until we update the downloads + pages you can download the new ihost + + here. +

+ +

+ Tuesday 21 May 2002

+ We've finally put the finishing touches to the new + RRDtool based graphing system. + It's working well, and has done away with the MySQL database + backend which took up far too many resources. This new system + generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more + flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available + through + CVS. +

+ +

Tuesday 8 Jan 2002

Java ACL (Access Control List) code has been added to the util package of the i-scream server. This code will ultimately allow the server to be more secure when exposed to the Internet. More - details can be found + details can be found here on the author's website.

-

- Tuesday 18 Dec 2001

- The i-scream ihost package has undergone significant changes to - make it more flexible and modular. It now incorporates plugins - which can be written in any language, and automatically XML - encodes data it is given (as opposed to the hardcoded approach - in the old version). It has also been made more robust, and - where possible optimised to reduce the load on the host system. -

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About i-scream

@@ -59,25 +98,24 @@ documentation page has details of installation, use and maintenance for the end user and developer. We value feedback and comments from you, so please drop us an e-mail - to dev@i-scream.org.uk. + to dev@i-scream.org.

 

Current Work

- Historical/Realtime graphing package

+ Extending monitoring facilites

- The current system for graphing i-scream data from the i-scream - system is good, but proving to be unscalable and very resource - hungry. This is mostly due to the MySQL database backend, - and the vast quantity of data recorded. The new system - in development makes use of - RRDtool to generate the graphs in realtime. This reduces - the peak loads of the system, and allows generation of more - flexible graphs. This work is nearing completetion. + Work is continuing, in conjunction with the new ihost, to extend + the range of i-scream's monitoring. Currently we are adding new + features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage, + along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve + the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place. + There are also many more subtle changes that need to be made to + improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring.

- +

Server security

Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage @@ -105,8 +143,8 @@

The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off as - a final year project for a group of - Computer Science students at the + a final year project for a group of + Computer Science students at the University of Kent at Canterbury, 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 @@ -156,11 +194,11 @@ Google

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