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3 <    contents.inc
4 <    Created by pjm2 14/10/2000
5 <    Last edited 16/01/2001
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9        <td>
10         <font size="2" face="arial,sans-serif">
11        
12 <       <center><h3>Current Status</h3></center>
12 >       <center><h3>Project News</h3></center>
13 >      
14 >       <p align="justify">
15 >        <b>Saturday 1 June 2002</b><br><br>
16 >        Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has
17 >        been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to finally
18 >        see an efficient native host! Credit goes to our new developer
19 >        <a href="/who.shtml">Pete</a>. Until we update the downloads
20 >        pages you can download the new ihost
21 >        <a href="http://ukc.i-screma.org.uk/snapshots/ihost-1.0rc1.tar.gz">
22 >        here</a>.
23 >       </p>
24  
25         <p align="justify">
26 <        Several central components are now functioning to initial
27 <        design parameters and data can now be passed through the
28 <        system successfully. Many planning and design decisions
29 <        are still being made, along with various specification
30 <        documents. Detailed information can usually be found in
31 <        the meeting minutes. Code is viewable via CVS to UKC
32 <        users only.
26 >        <b>Tuesday 21 May 2002</b><br><br>
27 >        We've finally put the finishing touches to the new
28 >        <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org">RRDtool</a> based graphing system.
29 >        It's working well, and has done away with the MySQL database
30 >        backend which took up far too many resources. This new system
31 >        generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more
32 >        flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available
33 >        through <a href="http://www.i-scream.org.uk/cgi-bin/cvs/viewcvs.cgi/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/">
34 >        CVS</a>.
35         </p>
36  
37         <p align="justify">
38 <        Our current host development allows us to pass machine statistics
39 <        to our distributed filter arrangement, which then processes the
40 <        data and stores it for later use.  An example of such use is the
41 <        historical report generator which produces graphs of machine
30 <        usage over periods of time (viewable in a web browser).  Realtime
31 <        clients are also currently being developed - one Java Swing GUI
32 <        version and also a command line version that can run in a terminal
33 <        window.
38 >        <b>Saturday 18 May 2002</b><br><br>
39 >        The i-scream central monitoring system is now <a href="/license.shtml">
40 >        licensed</a> under the GNU Public License. We are currently working
41 >        to make full downloads, including source, available on this site.
42         </p>
43  
44 +       <p align="justify">
45 +        <b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br>
46 +        The alerting section of the i-scream central monitoring system
47 +        now makes full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC
48 +        connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit
49 +        the author's website at <a href="http://www.jibble.org">
50 +        http://www.jibble.org</a>.
51 +       </p>
52 +      
53 +       <p align="justify">
54 +        <b>Tuesday 8 Jan 2002</b><br><br>
55 +        Java ACL (Access Control List) code has been added to the util
56 +        package of the i-scream server. This code will ultimately allow
57 +        the server to be more secure when exposed to the Internet. More
58 +        details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl">
59 +        here</a> on the author's website.
60 +       </p>
61 +      
62         <p>&nbsp;</p>
63 <       <center><h3>Presentations</h3></center>
64 <
63 >       <center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center>
64 >      
65         <p align="justify">
66 <        On Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th October all members of the group made presentations to various groups of peers.
66 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
67 >        Details of the i-scream central monitoring system can be found
68 >        on the <b><a href="features.shtml">features and overview</a></b> page.
69 >        A variety of <b><a href="screenshots">screen shots</a></b> from the
70 >        system show some of the key features in use. The <b><a href="reports">reports demo</a></b>
71 >        page provides a static example of what the i-scream reports (alerts,
72 >        historical graphs, and live data) could look like on a production system.
73         </p>
74 <         <p align="justify">
75 <        For those who are interested you can view an online version
76 <        of our presentation <a href="documentation/presentation/i-scream-web.htm">here</a>.
77 <        <br>
78 <        Alternatively you can download a powerpoint version from
79 <        <a href="documentation/presentation/i-scream-web.ppt"> here</a>.
80 <        </p>
74 >      
75 >       <p align="justify">
76 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-main.gif" width="100" height="107" align="right"></a>
77 >        The latest source code is available in the <b><a href="cvs.shtml">CVS</a></b>
78 >        repository, with binary downloads on the downloads page. The
79 >        <b><a href="documentation">documentation</a></b> page has details of
80 >        installation, use and maintenance for the end user and developer.
81 >        We value feedback and comments from you, so please drop us an e-mail
82 >        to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a>.
83 >       </p>
84 >      
85 >       <p>&nbsp;</p>
86 >       <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
87 >      
88 >       <p align="justify">
89 >        <b>Extending monitoring facilites</b><br><br>
90 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
91 >        Work is continuing, in conjunction with the new ihost, to extend
92 >        the range of i-scream's monitoring. Currently we are adding new
93 >        features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage,
94 >        along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve
95 >        the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place.
96 >        There are also many more subtle changes that need to be made to
97 >        improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring.
98 >       </p>
99  
100 +       <p align="justify">
101 +        <b>Server security</b><br><br>
102 +        Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage
103 +        of this project (due to the academic nature of the work). However,
104 +        once in production use this has become an issue, and is being
105 +        addressed. Initially the plan is to lock down the external points
106 +        of access (TCP & UDP) in the server to specific hosts. In the
107 +        longer term, encryption of data would be nice, but would take a
108 +        lot more time and work.
109 +       </p>
110 +      
111 +       <p align="justify">
112 +        <b>Testing and Development</b><br><br>
113 +        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" width="100" height="62" align="right"></a>
114 +        The i-scream system is being tested and developed within the
115 +        Univeristy of Kent Computer Science department by the Systems
116 +        Group. This has led to many bug fixes and minor feature
117 +        enhancements, and will hopefully help to aid the long term
118 +        development of the system.
119 +       </p>
120 +      
121         <p>&nbsp;</p>
122 <       <center><h3>Naming History</h3></center>
122 >       <center><h3>Project History</h3></center>
123  
124         <p align="justify">
125 <        The name <b>i-scream</b> arose from a meeting whereupon one member
126 <        of our group randomly chose to draw an ice cream on the white board.
125 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" width="100" height="104" align="left"></a>
126 >        The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off as
127 >        a final year project for a group of <a href="http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk">
128 >        Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk">
129 >        University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK. The project was completed at
130 >        4pm on 29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders containing
131 >        mostly source code and documentation. The CVS repository was tagged to
132 >        signify this even, however, the project is still being developed by the
133 >        <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">core development team</a>.
134 >       </p>
135 >      
136 >       <p align="justify">
137 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" width="100" height="51" align="right"></a>
138 >        As can be seen in our &quot;<a href="/probdomain.shtml">problem domain</a>&quot; document, the project
139 >        was aimed at the UKC Computer Science department, and as such
140 >        we believed that a demonstration to the &quot;customer&quot; was important. The
141 >        feedback from our demonstation was more positive than we had
142 >        anticipated. We believe that the system may now be of interest
143 >        to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of machines on their
144 >        network using a central configuration. The i-scream central
145 >        monitoring system is now being used by the UKC Computer Science
146 >        department, and their feedback is being used to further improve
147 >        the product.
148 >       </p>
149 >
150 >       <p align="justify">
151 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-config.gif" width="100" height="48" align="left"></a>
152 >        The name <i>i-scream</i> arose from a meeting whereupon one member
153 >        of the <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">development team</a> felt a strange urge to draw an ice cream on the discussion board.
154          It later became apparent that we had no name for our project (other
155          than 'The Project'). It seemed only natural to name our project after
156          the ice cream that had been oh-so-randomly drawn on the white board.
157          Copyright issues immediately ruled out anything involving Mr Whippy,
158 <        so we had to settle for <b>i-scream</b>. And thus, we were left with a cunning
158 >        so we had to settle for <i>i-scream</i>. And thus, we were left with a cunning
159          play on words - it still sounded like <i>ice cream</i>, yet also
160 <        served as a functional decription of our system - namely, one which
160 >        served as a functional description of our system - namely, one which
161          screams at somebody if something has gone wrong...
162         </p>
163         <p align="justify">
164 <        
164 >      
165 >       <p>&nbsp;</p>
166 >       <center><h3>Searching i-scream</h3></center>
167 >      
168 >       <!-- Search Google -->
169 >       <center>
170 >        <FORM method=GET action=http://www.google.com/custom>
171 >         <TABLE bgcolor=#FFFFFF cellspacing=0 border=0>
172 >          <tr>
173 >           <td valign="middle">
174 >            <A HREF=http://www.google.com/search>
175 >            <IMG SRC=http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif border=0 ALT=Google align=middle width="128" height="53"></A>
176 >           </td>
177 >           <td valign="middle">
178 >            <input type=hidden name=domains value="i-scream.org.uk">
179 >            <input type=hidden name=sitesearch value="i-scream.org.uk">
180 >            <INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=35 maxlength=255 value="">
181 >            <INPUT type=submit name=sa VALUE="Search">
182 >            <INPUT type=hidden name=cof VALUE="T:#000066;LW:502;ALC:#3333cc;L:http://www.i-scream.org.uk/i-scream.gif;LC:#0000ff;LH:37;BGC:#ffffff;AH:left;VLC:#3333cc;AWFID:d646a9fd69e7d9cb;">
183 >           </td>
184 >          </tr>
185 >         </TABLE>
186 >        </FORM>
187 >       </center>
188 >       <!-- Search Google -->
189 >      
190         </p>
191         </font>
192        </td>

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