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<center><h3>Current Status</h3></center> |
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All i-scream components are now functioning to initial |
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design parameters and our system is regarded to be complete. |
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Documentation is available to assist third party programmers |
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in producing Hosts for use with the i-scream server. |
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Our progress during the project can be found in the meeting minutes. |
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Code is viewable via CVS to UKC users only. |
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The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System <a href="http://raptor.ukc.ac.uk/~pjm2/reports">Reports</a> |
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are now visible on the web. You may view the latest information |
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about each machine, historical 24-hour reports and alerts for |
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each machine. Please remember that this is work in progress |
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still, so the only data currently viewable is our own data that |
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has been harvested by our own testing. Also note that historical |
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reports are only available for periods during which our server |
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was running. |
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Our current host development allows us to pass machine statistics |
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to our distributed filter arrangement, which then processes the |
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data and stores it for later use. An example of such use is the |
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historical report generator which produces graphs of machine |
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usage over periods of time. A real-time |
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client is also available (Conient) and alert information can be |
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displayed to the public via dynamic web pages. |
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Builds of the i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System |
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are now available for <a href="/builds/">download</a> from this |
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website. These are still very much in development and should |
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only be used by people who have been in communication with the |
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development team. Please email us if you wish to use any i-scream |
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software, as we are interested to know who is using it and we may |
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be able to help you out with any problems you encounter. |
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<center><h3>Project Completion</h3></center> |
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The project deadline was 4pm on 29 March 2001. Most of the group |
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met very early that morning to compile the project into five |
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lever arch folders. The project, consisting of source code, user, |
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maintenance and other documents, was handed in at 3pm. The CVS |
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repository was tagged to signify the project's completion, however, |
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development and enhancements to the system shall be continued |
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in the near future. |
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As can be seen in the "problem domain" document, the project |
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was aimed at the UKC Computer Science department, and as such |
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we believe a demonstration to the "customer" is important. The |
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feedback from our demonstation was more positive than we had |
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anticipated. We believe that our project may now be of great |
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interest to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of machines |
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on their network using a central configuration. |
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<center><h3>Naming History</h3></center> |
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The name <b>i-scream</b> arose from a meeting whereupon one member |
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of our group randomly chose to draw an ice cream on the white board. |
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It later became apparent that we had no name for our project (other |
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than 'The Project'). It seemed only natural to name our project after |
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the ice cream that had been oh-so-randomly drawn on the white board. |
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Copyright issues immediately ruled out anything involving Mr Whippy, |
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so we had to settle for <b>i-scream</b>. And thus, we were left with a cunning |
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play on words - it still sounded like <i>ice cream</i>, yet also |
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served as a functional decription of our system - namely, one which |
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screams at somebody if something has gone wrong... |
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