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10         <font size="2" face="arial,sans-serif">
11        
12         <center><h3>Project News</h3></center>
13 +
14 +       <p align="justify">
15 +        <b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br>
16 +        We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab. You
17 +        can download version 0.5.1 from
18 +        <a href="ftp://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">here</a>.
19 +        This release fixes some bugs, and adds a new tool 'statgrab'.
20 +       </p>
21 +
22 +       <p align="justify">
23 +        <b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br>
24 +        We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab. You
25 +        can download version 0.5 from
26 +        <a href="ftp://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">here</a>.
27 +        This release provides both documentation and examples, which
28 +        we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the
29 +        next release with some useful tools.
30 +       </p>
31 +
32 +       <p align="justify">
33 +        <b>Tuesday 15 July 2003</b><br><br>
34 +        We have moved the i-scream support and bug tracking to a new
35 +        facility on the i-scream server. For further details please
36 +        see <a href="/support.shtml">this</a> page.
37 +       </p>
38        
39         <p align="justify">
40 <        <b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br>
41 <        The alerting section of the i-scream central monitoring system
42 <        now makes full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC
43 <        connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit
44 <        the author's website at <a href="http://www.jibble.org">
45 <        http://www.jibble.org</a>.
40 >        <b>Sunday 8 June 2003</b><br><br>
41 >        The i-scream website, email, and cvs facilities are now all
42 >        run from a <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> server.<br>
43 >        <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">
44 >         <img src="/powerlogo.gif" width="171" height="64" border="0" alt="Powered By FreeBSD">
45 >        </a>
46         </p>
47        
48         <p align="justify">
49 +        <b>Tuesday 4 February 2003</b><br><br>
50 +        Over the coming week we will be making snapshot builds of the
51 +        i-scream central monitoring system from the CVS repository.
52 +        These builds will have quite a few changes from the downloads
53 +        currently available (a document detailing them will be
54 +        released later on), so please give them a whirl. We would be
55 +        grateful if you <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">contacted</a>
56 +        us with any questions or bugs.<br><br>
57 +        The downloads will be available on our snapshot server :-<br>
58 +        <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/">
59 +        http://snapshots.i-scream.org/</a>.
60 +       </p>
61 +
62 +       <p align="justify">
63 +        <b>Saturday 1 June 2002</b><br><br>
64 +        Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has
65 +        been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to finally
66 +        see an efficient native host! Credit goes to our new developer
67 +        <a href="/who.shtml">Pete</a>. Until we update the downloads
68 +        pages you can download the new ihost
69 +        <a href="ftp://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/ihost/">
70 +        here</a>.
71 +       </p>
72 +
73 +       <p align="justify">
74 +        <b>Tuesday 21 May 2002</b><br><br>
75 +        We've finally put the finishing touches to the new
76 +        <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org">RRDtool</a> based graphing system.
77 +        It's working well, and has done away with the MySQL database
78 +        backend which took up far too many resources. This new system
79 +        generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more
80 +        flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available
81 +        through <a href="http://cvs.i-scream.org/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/">
82 +        CVS</a>.
83 +       </p>
84 +
85 +       <p align="justify">
86          <b>Tuesday 8 Jan 2002</b><br><br>
87          Java ACL (Access Control List) code has been added to the util
88          package of the i-scream server. This code will ultimately allow
89          the server to be more secure when exposed to the Internet. More
90 <        details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl">
90 >        details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl">
91          here</a> on the author's website.
92         </p>
93        
32       <p align="justify">
33        <b>Tuesday 18 Dec 2001</b><br><br>
34        The i-scream ihost package has undergone significant changes to
35        make it more flexible and modular. It now incorporates plugins
36        which can be written in any language, and automatically XML
37        encodes data it is given (as opposed to the hardcoded approach
38        in the old version). It has also been made more robust, and
39        where possible optimised to reduce the load on the host system.
40       </p>
41      
94         <p>&nbsp;</p>
95         <center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center>
96        
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111          <b><a href="documentation">documentation</a></b> page has details of
112          installation, use and maintenance for the end user and developer.
113          We value feedback and comments from you, so please drop us an e-mail
114 <        to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a>.
114 >        to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">dev@i-scream.org</a>.
115         </p>
116        
117         <p>&nbsp;</p>
118         <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
119        
120         <p align="justify">
121 <        <b>Historical/Realtime graphing package</b><br><br>
121 >        <b>Extending monitoring facilites</b><br><br>
122          <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
123 <        The current system for graphing i-scream data  from the i-scream
124 <        system is good, but proving to be unscalable and very resource
125 <        hungry. This is mostly due to the MySQL database backend,
126 <        and the vast quantity of data recorded. The new system
127 <        in development makes use of <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org/">
128 <        RRDtool</a> to generate the graphs in realtime. This reduces
129 <        the peak loads of the system, and allows generation of more
78 <        flexible graphs. This work is nearing completetion.
123 >        Work is continuing, in conjunction with the new ihost, to extend
124 >        the range of i-scream's monitoring. Currently we are adding new
125 >        features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage,
126 >        along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve
127 >        the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place.
128 >        There are also many more subtle changes that need to be made to
129 >        improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring.
130         </p>
131 <      
131 >
132         <p align="justify">
133          <b>Server security</b><br><br>
134          Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage
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157          <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" width="100" height="104" align="left"></a>
158          The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off as
159 <        a final year project for a group of <a href="http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk">
160 <        Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk">
159 >        a final year project for a group of <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk">
160 >        Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk">
161          University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK. The project was completed at
162          4pm on 29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders containing
163          mostly source code and documentation. The CVS repository was tagged to
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