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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://snapshots.i-scream.org.uk/ihost-1.0rc1.tar.gz">
22 +        here</a>.
23 +       </p>
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25 +       <p align="justify">
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 +        <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 monitoring system now makes
47 <        full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC
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>.
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59          here</a> on the author's website.
60         </p>
61        
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      
62         <p>&nbsp;</p>
63         <center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center>
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86         <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
87        
88         <p align="justify">
89 <        <b>Historical/Realtime graphing package</b><br><br>
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 <        The current system for graphing i-scream data  from the i-scream
92 <        system is good, but proving to be unscalable and very resource
93 <        hungry. This is mostly due to the MySQL database backend,
94 <        and the vast quantity of data recorded. The new system
95 <        in development makes use of <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org/">
96 <        RRDtool</a> to generate the graphs in realtime. This reduces
97 <        the peak loads of the system, and allows generation of more
78 <        flexible graphs. This work is nearing completetion.
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 <      
99 >
100         <p align="justify">
101          <b>Server security</b><br><br>
102          Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage

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