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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>Wednesday 7 May 2003</b><br><br>
16 +        We've <a href="http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab>
17 +        released</a> libstatgrab 0.4 as an individual product. You can
18 +        download it <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/libstatgrab">
19 +        here</a>. This release is functionally complete, but lacks
20 +        documentation. We hope to rectify this in the next release.
21 +       </p>
22        
23         <p align="justify">
24 +        <b>Tuesday 4 February 2003</b><br><br>
25 +        Over the coming week we will be making snapshot builds of the
26 +        i-scream central monitoring system from the CVS repository.
27 +        These builds will have quite a few changes from the downloads
28 +        currently available (a document detailing them will be
29 +        released later on), so please give them a whirl. We would be
30 +        grateful if you <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">contacted</a>
31 +        us with any questions or bugs.<br><br>
32 +        The downloads will be available on our snapshot server :-<br>
33 +        <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/">
34 +        http://snapshots.i-scream.org/</a>.
35 +       </p>
36 +
37 +       <p align="justify">
38 +        <b>Saturday 1 June 2002</b><br><br>
39 +        Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has
40 +        been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to finally
41 +        see an efficient native host! Credit goes to our new developer
42 +        <a href="/who.shtml">Pete</a>. Until we update the downloads
43 +        pages you can download the new ihost
44 +        <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/ihost/">
45 +        here</a>.
46 +       </p>
47 +
48 +       <p align="justify">
49 +        <b>Tuesday 21 May 2002</b><br><br>
50 +        We've finally put the finishing touches to the new
51 +        <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org">RRDtool</a> based graphing system.
52 +        It's working well, and has done away with the MySQL database
53 +        backend which took up far too many resources. This new system
54 +        generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more
55 +        flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available
56 +        through <a href="http://cvs.i-scream.org/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/">
57 +        CVS</a>.
58 +       </p>
59 +
60 +       <p align="justify">
61 +        <b>Saturday 18 May 2002</b><br><br>
62 +        The i-scream central monitoring system is now <a href="/license.shtml">
63 +        licensed</a> under the GNU Public License. We are currently working
64 +        to make full downloads, including source, available on this site.
65 +       </p>
66 +
67 +       <p align="justify">
68          <b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br>
69 <        The alerting section of the i-scream monitoring system now makes
70 <        full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC
69 >        The alerting section of the i-scream central monitoring system
70 >        now makes full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC
71          connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit
72          the author's website at <a href="http://www.jibble.org">
73          http://www.jibble.org</a>.
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78          Java ACL (Access Control List) code has been added to the util
79          package of the i-scream server. This code will ultimately allow
80          the server to be more secure when exposed to the Internet. More
81 <        details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl">
81 >        details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl">
82          here</a> on the author's website.
83         </p>
84        
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      
85         <p>&nbsp;</p>
86         <center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center>
87        
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102          <b><a href="documentation">documentation</a></b> page has details of
103          installation, use and maintenance for the end user and developer.
104          We value feedback and comments from you, so please drop us an e-mail
105 <        to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a>.
105 >        to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">dev@i-scream.org</a>.
106         </p>
107        
108         <p>&nbsp;</p>
109         <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
110        
111         <p align="justify">
112 <        <b>Historical/Realtime graphing package</b><br><br>
112 >        <b>Extending monitoring facilites</b><br><br>
113          <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
114 <        The current system for graphing i-scream data  from the i-scream
115 <        system is good, but proving to be unscalable and very resource
116 <        hungry. This is mostly due to the MySQL database backend,
117 <        and the vast quantity of data recorded. The new system
118 <        in development makes use of <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org/">
119 <        RRDtool</a> to generate the graphs in realtime. This reduces
120 <        the peak loads of the system, and allows generation of more
78 <        flexible graphs. This work is nearing completetion.
114 >        Work is continuing, in conjunction with the new ihost, to extend
115 >        the range of i-scream's monitoring. Currently we are adding new
116 >        features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage,
117 >        along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve
118 >        the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place.
119 >        There are also many more subtle changes that need to be made to
120 >        improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring.
121         </p>
122 <      
122 >
123         <p align="justify">
124          <b>Server security</b><br><br>
125          Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage
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147         <p align="justify">
148          <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" width="100" height="104" align="left"></a>
149          The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off as
150 <        a final year project for a group of <a href="http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk">
151 <        Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk">
150 >        a final year project for a group of <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk">
151 >        Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk">
152          University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK. The project was completed at
153          4pm on 29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders containing
154          mostly source code and documentation. The CVS repository was tagged to
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