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<b>Tuesday 4 February 2003</b><br><br> |
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Over the coming week we will be making snapshot builds of the |
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i-scream central monitoring system from the CVS repository. |
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These builds will have quite a few changes from the downloads |
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currently available (a document detailing them will be |
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released later on), so please give them a whirl. We would be |
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grateful if you <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">contacted</a> |
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us with any questions or bugs.<br><br> |
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The downloads will be available on our snapshot server :-<br> |
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<a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/"> |
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http://snapshots.i-scream.org/</a>. |
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<b>Saturday 1 June 2002</b><br><br> |
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Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has |
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been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to finally |
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see an efficient native host! Credit goes to our new developer |
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<a href="/who.shtml">Pete</a>. Until we update the downloads |
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pages you can download the new ihost |
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<a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/ihost/"> |
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here</a>. |
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<b>Tuesday 21 May 2002</b><br><br> |
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We've finally put the finishing touches to the new |
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<a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org">RRDtool</a> based graphing system. |
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It's working well, and has done away with the MySQL database |
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backend which took up far too many resources. This new system |
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generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more |
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flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available |
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through <a href="http://cvs.i-scream.org/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/"> |
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CVS</a>. |
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<b>Saturday 18 May 2002</b><br><br> |
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The i-scream central monitoring system is now <a href="/license.shtml"> |
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licensed</a> under the GNU Public License. We are currently working |
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to make full downloads, including source, available on this site. |
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<b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br> |
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The alerting section of the i-scream monitoring system now makes |
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full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC |
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The alerting section of the i-scream central monitoring system |
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now makes full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC |
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connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit |
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the author's website at <a href="http://www.jibble.org"> |
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http://www.jibble.org</a>. |
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Java ACL (Access Control List) code has been added to the util |
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package of the i-scream server. This code will ultimately allow |
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the server to be more secure when exposed to the Internet. More |
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details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl"> |
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details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl"> |
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here</a> on the author's website. |
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<b>Tuesday 18 Dec 2001</b><br><br> |
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The i-scream ihost package has undergone significant changes to |
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make it more flexible and modular. It now incorporates plugins |
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which can be written in any language, and automatically XML |
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encodes data it is given (as opposed to the hardcoded approach |
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in the old version). It has also been made more robust, and |
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where possible optimised to reduce the load on the host system. |
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<center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center> |
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<b><a href="documentation">documentation</a></b> page has details of |
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installation, use and maintenance for the end user and developer. |
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We value feedback and comments from you, so please drop us an e-mail |
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to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a>. |
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to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">dev@i-scream.org</a>. |
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<center><h3>Current Work</h3></center> |
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<b>Historical/Realtime graphing package</b><br><br> |
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<b>Extending monitoring facilites</b><br><br> |
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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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The current system for graphing i-scream data from the i-scream |
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system is good, but proving to be unscalable and very resource |
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hungry. This is mostly due to the MySQL database backend, |
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and the vast quantity of data recorded. The new system |
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in development makes use of <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org/"> |
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RRDtool</a> to generate the graphs in realtime. This reduces |
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the peak loads of the system, and allows generation of more |
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flexible graphs. This work is nearing completetion. |
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Work is continuing, in conjunction with the new ihost, to extend |
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the range of i-scream's monitoring. Currently we are adding new |
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features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage, |
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along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve |
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the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place. |
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improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring. |
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<b>Server security</b><br><br> |
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Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage |
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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.kent.ac.uk"> |
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Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk"> |
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University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK. The project was completed at |
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4pm on 29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders containing |
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mostly source code and documentation. The CVS repository was tagged to |
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