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3 <    contents.inc
4 <    Created by pjm2 14/10/2000
5 <    Last edited 14/10/2000
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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 <        The project is currently undergoing planning decisions.
16 <        The implementation of this central monitoring system is
17 <        expected to completed before Easter.
15 >        <b>Tuesday 15 July 2003</b><br><br>
16 >        We have moved the i-scream support and bug tracking to a new
17 >        facility on the i-scream server. For further details please
18 >        see <a href="/support.shtml">this</a> page.
19         </p>
20 +      
21 +       <p align="justify">
22 +        <b>Sunday 8 June 2003</b><br><br>
23 +        The i-scream website, email, and cvs facilities are now all
24 +        run from a <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> server.<br>
25 +        <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">
26 +         <img src="/powerlogo.gif" width="171" height="64" border="0" alt="Powered By FreeBSD">
27 +        </a>
28 +       </p>
29 +      
30 +       <p align="justify">
31 +        <b>Wednesday 7 May 2003</b><br><br>
32 +        We've <a href="http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab">
33 +        released</a> libstatgrab 0.4 as an individual product. You can
34 +        download it <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/libstatgrab">
35 +        here</a>. This release is functionally complete, but lacks
36 +        documentation. We hope to rectify this in the next release.
37 +       </p>
38 +      
39 +       <p align="justify">
40 +        <b>Tuesday 4 February 2003</b><br><br>
41 +        Over the coming week we will be making snapshot builds of the
42 +        i-scream central monitoring system from the CVS repository.
43 +        These builds will have quite a few changes from the downloads
44 +        currently available (a document detailing them will be
45 +        released later on), so please give them a whirl. We would be
46 +        grateful if you <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">contacted</a>
47 +        us with any questions or bugs.<br><br>
48 +        The downloads will be available on our snapshot server :-<br>
49 +        <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/">
50 +        http://snapshots.i-scream.org/</a>.
51 +       </p>
52  
53 <       <p>&nbsp;</p>
54 <       <center><h3>Presentations</h3></center>
53 >       <p align="justify">
54 >        <b>Saturday 1 June 2002</b><br><br>
55 >        Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has
56 >        been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to finally
57 >        see an efficient native host! Credit goes to our new developer
58 >        <a href="/who.shtml">Pete</a>. Until we update the downloads
59 >        pages you can download the new ihost
60 >        <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/ihost/">
61 >        here</a>.
62 >       </p>
63  
64         <p align="justify">
65 <        Our project presentations will run on Monday 16th and
66 <        Tuesday 17th October. Good luck, everybody.
65 >        <b>Tuesday 21 May 2002</b><br><br>
66 >        We've finally put the finishing touches to the new
67 >        <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org">RRDtool</a> based graphing system.
68 >        It's working well, and has done away with the MySQL database
69 >        backend which took up far too many resources. This new system
70 >        generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more
71 >        flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available
72 >        through <a href="http://cvs.i-scream.org/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/">
73 >        CVS</a>.
74         </p>
28         <p align="justify">
29        For those who are interested you can view an online version
30        of our presentation <a href="documentation/presentation/i-scream-web.htm">here</a>.
31        <br>
32        Alternatively you can download a powerpoint version from
33        <a href="documentation/presentation/i-scream-web.ppt"> here</a>.
34        </p>
75  
76 +       <p align="justify">
77 +        <b>Saturday 18 May 2002</b><br><br>
78 +        The i-scream central monitoring system is now <a href="/license.shtml">
79 +        licensed</a> under the GNU Public License. We are currently working
80 +        to make full downloads, including source, available on this site.
81 +       </p>
82 +
83 +       <p align="justify">
84 +        <b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br>
85 +        The alerting section of the i-scream central monitoring system
86 +        now makes full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC
87 +        connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit
88 +        the author's website at <a href="http://www.jibble.org">
89 +        http://www.jibble.org</a>.
90 +       </p>
91 +      
92 +       <p align="justify">
93 +        <b>Tuesday 8 Jan 2002</b><br><br>
94 +        Java ACL (Access Control List) code has been added to the util
95 +        package of the i-scream server. This code will ultimately allow
96 +        the server to be more secure when exposed to the Internet. More
97 +        details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl">
98 +        here</a> on the author's website.
99 +       </p>
100 +      
101         <p>&nbsp;</p>
102 <       <center><h3>Naming History</h3></center>
102 >       <center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center>
103 >      
104 >       <p align="justify">
105 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
106 >        Details of the i-scream central monitoring system can be found
107 >        on the <b><a href="features.shtml">features and overview</a></b> page.
108 >        A variety of <b><a href="screenshots">screen shots</a></b> from the
109 >        system show some of the key features in use. The <b><a href="reports">reports demo</a></b>
110 >        page provides a static example of what the i-scream reports (alerts,
111 >        historical graphs, and live data) could look like on a production system.
112 >       </p>
113 >      
114 >       <p align="justify">
115 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-main.gif" width="100" height="107" align="right"></a>
116 >        The latest source code is available in the <b><a href="cvs.shtml">CVS</a></b>
117 >        repository, with binary downloads on the downloads page. The
118 >        <b><a href="documentation">documentation</a></b> page has details of
119 >        installation, use and maintenance for the end user and developer.
120 >        We value feedback and comments from you, so please drop us an e-mail
121 >        to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">dev@i-scream.org</a>.
122 >       </p>
123 >      
124 >       <p>&nbsp;</p>
125 >       <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
126 >      
127 >       <p align="justify">
128 >        <b>Extending monitoring facilites</b><br><br>
129 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
130 >        Work is continuing, in conjunction with the new ihost, to extend
131 >        the range of i-scream's monitoring. Currently we are adding new
132 >        features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage,
133 >        along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve
134 >        the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place.
135 >        There are also many more subtle changes that need to be made to
136 >        improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring.
137 >       </p>
138  
139         <p align="justify">
140 <        The name <b>i-scream</b> arose from a meeting whereupon one member
141 <        of our group randomly chose to draw an ice cream on the white board.
140 >        <b>Server security</b><br><br>
141 >        Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage
142 >        of this project (due to the academic nature of the work). However,
143 >        once in production use this has become an issue, and is being
144 >        addressed. Initially the plan is to lock down the external points
145 >        of access (TCP & UDP) in the server to specific hosts. In the
146 >        longer term, encryption of data would be nice, but would take a
147 >        lot more time and work.
148 >       </p>
149 >      
150 >       <p align="justify">
151 >        <b>Testing and Development</b><br><br>
152 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" width="100" height="62" align="right"></a>
153 >        The i-scream system is being tested and developed within the
154 >        Univeristy of Kent Computer Science department by the Systems
155 >        Group. This has led to many bug fixes and minor feature
156 >        enhancements, and will hopefully help to aid the long term
157 >        development of the system.
158 >       </p>
159 >      
160 >       <p>&nbsp;</p>
161 >       <center><h3>Project History</h3></center>
162 >
163 >       <p align="justify">
164 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" width="100" height="104" align="left"></a>
165 >        The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off as
166 >        a final year project for a group of <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk">
167 >        Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk">
168 >        University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK. The project was completed at
169 >        4pm on 29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders containing
170 >        mostly source code and documentation. The CVS repository was tagged to
171 >        signify this even, however, the project is still being developed by the
172 >        <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">core development team</a>.
173 >       </p>
174 >      
175 >       <p align="justify">
176 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" width="100" height="51" align="right"></a>
177 >        As can be seen in our &quot;<a href="/probdomain.shtml">problem domain</a>&quot; document, the project
178 >        was aimed at the UKC Computer Science department, and as such
179 >        we believed that a demonstration to the &quot;customer&quot; was important. The
180 >        feedback from our demonstation was more positive than we had
181 >        anticipated. We believe that the system may now be of interest
182 >        to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of machines on their
183 >        network using a central configuration. The i-scream central
184 >        monitoring system is now being used by the UKC Computer Science
185 >        department, and their feedback is being used to further improve
186 >        the product.
187 >       </p>
188 >
189 >       <p align="justify">
190 >        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-config.gif" width="100" height="48" align="left"></a>
191 >        The name <i>i-scream</i> arose from a meeting whereupon one member
192 >        of the <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">development team</a> felt a strange urge to draw an ice cream on the discussion board.
193          It later became apparent that we had no name for our project (other
194          than 'The Project'). It seemed only natural to name our project after
195          the ice cream that had been oh-so-randomly drawn on the white board.
196          Copyright issues immediately ruled out anything involving Mr Whippy,
197 <        so we had to settle for <b>i-scream</b>. And thus, we were left with a cunning
197 >        so we had to settle for <i>i-scream</i>. And thus, we were left with a cunning
198          play on words - it still sounded like <i>ice cream</i>, yet also
199 <        served as a functional decription of our system - namely, one which
199 >        served as a functional description of our system - namely, one which
200          screams at somebody if something has gone wrong...
201         </p>
202         <p align="justify">
203 <        
203 >      
204 >       <p>&nbsp;</p>
205 >       <center><h3>Searching i-scream</h3></center>
206 >      
207 >       <!-- Search Google -->
208 >       <center>
209 >        <FORM method=GET action=http://www.google.com/custom>
210 >         <TABLE bgcolor=#FFFFFF cellspacing=0 border=0>
211 >          <tr>
212 >           <td valign="middle">
213 >            <A HREF=http://www.google.com/search>
214 >            <IMG SRC=http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif border=0 ALT=Google align=middle width="128" height="53"></A>
215 >           </td>
216 >           <td valign="middle">
217 >            <input type=hidden name=domains value="i-scream.org;i-scream.org.uk">
218 >            <input type=hidden name=sitesearch value="i-scream.org">
219 >            <INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=35 maxlength=255 value="">
220 >            <INPUT type=submit name=sa VALUE="Search">
221 >            <INPUT type=hidden name=cof VALUE="T:#000066;LW:502;ALC:#3333cc;L:http://www.i-scream.org/i-scream.gif;LC:#0000ff;LH:37;BGC:#ffffff;AH:left;VLC:#3333cc;GL:0;S:http://www.i-scream.org/;AWFID:d646a9fd69e7d9cb;">
222 >           </td>
223 >          </tr>
224 >         </TABLE>
225 >        </FORM>
226 >       </center>
227 >       <!-- Search Google -->
228 >      
229         </p>
230         </font>
231        </td>

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