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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 <        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
16 <        All i-scream components now function to initial
17 <        design parameters and our system is regarded to be complete.
18 <        <b><a href="documentation/">Documentation</a></b> is available to assist third party programmers
20 <        in producing Hosts for use with the i-scream server.
21 <        Our progress during the project can be found in the meeting minutes.
22 <        Code is viewable via <a href="cvs.shtml">CVS</a>.
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 align="justify">
54 <        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" width="100" height="62" align="right"></a>
55 <        
56 <        The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System Reports
57 <        are now visible on the web.  If you are <b>not</b> a local user, then you may
58 <        view some of the output in the <b><a href="screenshots/">screen shots</a></b> section or you may view some
59 <        static example content on the <a href="reports/"><b>Reports Demo</b></a> pages.
60 <        You may view the latest information about each machine, historical 24-hour
61 <        reports and alerts for each machine.  Our own i-scream server is running constantly,
34 <        along with several hosts to enable plenty of data harvesting.  If you would
35 <        like your i-scream web reports to be linked from this site, then please email us
36 <        at <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a>
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 <        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-main.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
66 <        Our current host development allows us to pass machine statistics
67 <        to our distributed filter arrangement, which then processes the
68 <        data and stores it for later use.  An example of such use is the
69 <        historical report generator which produces graphs of machine
70 <        usage over periods of time.  A real-time
71 <        client is also available (Conient) and alert information can be
72 <        displayed to the public via dynamic web pages.
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>
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 <        <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" width="100" height="107" align="right"></a>
94 <        The latest builds of the i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System
95 <        are now available for <b><a href="/downloads/">download</a></b> from this
96 <        website.  To assist in our addition of features to the system, we
97 <        would be extremely grateful to receive feedback from anybody who has
98 <        any comments about the system.  You may email the development team
57 <        at <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a>
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>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 +        <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 Completion</h3></center>
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.ukc.ac.uk">Computer Science</a> students at
167 <        the <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk">University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK.
168 <        The project deadline was 4pm on 29th March 2001.  Most of the group
169 <        met very early that morning to compile the project into five
170 <        lever arch folders.  The project, consisting of source code, user,
171 <        maintenance and other documents, was handed in at 3pm.  The CVS
172 <        repository was tagged to signify the project's completion, however,
73 <        the project is still being developed by the <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">core development team</a>
74 <        as we have found the system to be very useful in practice.  We would
75 <        love to hear of ideas for extra features that we may include in the
76 <        next builds.
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">
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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 great
182 <        interest to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of machines
183 <        on their network using a central configuration.
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  
90       <p>&nbsp;</p>
91       <center><h3>Naming History</h3></center>
92
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
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202         <p align="justify">
203        
204         <p>&nbsp;</p>
205 <       <center><h3>Searching</h3></center>
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 valign=top><td>
212 <       <A HREF=http://www.google.com/search>
213 <       <IMG SRC=http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif border=0 ALT=Google align=middle width="128" height="53"></A>
214 <       </td>
215 <       <td>
216 <       <font face=arial,sans-serif size=-1><input type=hidden name=domains value="i-scream.org.uk"><input type=radio name=sitesearch value="i-scream.org.uk" checked> search i-scream <input type=radio name=sitesearch value=""> search google </font><br>
217 <       <INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=35 maxlength=255 value="">
218 <       <INPUT type=submit name=sa VALUE="Search">
219 <       <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;">
220 <       </td></tr></TABLE>
221 <       </FORM>
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 -->
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