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12 <center><h3>Project News</h3></center>
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14 <p align="justify">
15 <b>Sunday 8 June 2003</b><br><br>
16 The i-scream website, email, and cvs facilities are now all
17 run from a <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> server.
18 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">
19 <img src="/powerlogo.gif border="0" alt="Powered By FreeBSD">
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23 <p align="justify">
24 <b>Wednesday 7 May 2003</b><br><br>
25 We've <a href="http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab">
26 released</a> libstatgrab 0.4 as an individual product. You can
27 download it <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/libstatgrab">
28 here</a>. This release is functionally complete, but lacks
29 documentation. We hope to rectify this in the next release.
30 </p>
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32 <p align="justify">
33 <b>Tuesday 4 February 2003</b><br><br>
34 Over the coming week we will be making snapshot builds of the
35 i-scream central monitoring system from the CVS repository.
36 These builds will have quite a few changes from the downloads
37 currently available (a document detailing them will be
38 released later on), so please give them a whirl. We would be
39 grateful if you <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">contacted</a>
40 us with any questions or bugs.<br><br>
41 The downloads will be available on our snapshot server :-<br>
42 <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/">
43 http://snapshots.i-scream.org/</a>.
44 </p>
45
46 <p align="justify">
47 <b>Saturday 1 June 2002</b><br><br>
48 Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has
49 been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to finally
50 see an efficient native host! Credit goes to our new developer
51 <a href="/who.shtml">Pete</a>. Until we update the downloads
52 pages you can download the new ihost
53 <a href="http://snapshots.i-scream.org/ihost/">
54 here</a>.
55 </p>
56
57 <p align="justify">
58 <b>Tuesday 21 May 2002</b><br><br>
59 We've finally put the finishing touches to the new
60 <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org">RRDtool</a> based graphing system.
61 It's working well, and has done away with the MySQL database
62 backend which took up far too many resources. This new system
63 generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more
64 flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available
65 through <a href="http://cvs.i-scream.org/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/">
66 CVS</a>.
67 </p>
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69 <p align="justify">
70 <b>Saturday 18 May 2002</b><br><br>
71 The i-scream central monitoring system is now <a href="/license.shtml">
72 licensed</a> under the GNU Public License. We are currently working
73 to make full downloads, including source, available on this site.
74 </p>
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76 <p align="justify">
77 <b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br>
78 The alerting section of the i-scream central monitoring system
79 now makes full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC
80 connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit
81 the author's website at <a href="http://www.jibble.org">
82 http://www.jibble.org</a>.
83 </p>
84
85 <p align="justify">
86 <b>Tuesday 8 Jan 2002</b><br><br>
87 Java ACL (Access Control List) code has been added to the util
88 package of the i-scream server. This code will ultimately allow
89 the server to be more secure when exposed to the Internet. More
90 details can be found <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/tdb/#acl">
91 here</a> on the author's website.
92 </p>
93
94 <p>&nbsp;</p>
95 <center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center>
96
97 <p align="justify">
98 <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
99 Details of the i-scream central monitoring system can be found
100 on the <b><a href="features.shtml">features and overview</a></b> page.
101 A variety of <b><a href="screenshots">screen shots</a></b> from the
102 system show some of the key features in use. The <b><a href="reports">reports demo</a></b>
103 page provides a static example of what the i-scream reports (alerts,
104 historical graphs, and live data) could look like on a production system.
105 </p>
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107 <p align="justify">
108 <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-main.gif" width="100" height="107" align="right"></a>
109 The latest source code is available in the <b><a href="cvs.shtml">CVS</a></b>
110 repository, with binary downloads on the downloads page. The
111 <b><a href="documentation">documentation</a></b> page has details of
112 installation, use and maintenance for the end user and developer.
113 We value feedback and comments from you, so please drop us an e-mail
114 to <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">dev@i-scream.org</a>.
115 </p>
116
117 <p>&nbsp;</p>
118 <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
119
120 <p align="justify">
121 <b>Extending monitoring facilites</b><br><br>
122 <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
123 Work is continuing, in conjunction with the new ihost, to extend
124 the range of i-scream's monitoring. Currently we are adding new
125 features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage,
126 along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve
127 the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place.
128 There are also many more subtle changes that need to be made to
129 improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring.
130 </p>
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132 <p align="justify">
133 <b>Server security</b><br><br>
134 Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage
135 of this project (due to the academic nature of the work). However,
136 once in production use this has become an issue, and is being
137 addressed. Initially the plan is to lock down the external points
138 of access (TCP & UDP) in the server to specific hosts. In the
139 longer term, encryption of data would be nice, but would take a
140 lot more time and work.
141 </p>
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143 <p align="justify">
144 <b>Testing and Development</b><br><br>
145 <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" width="100" height="62" align="right"></a>
146 The i-scream system is being tested and developed within the
147 Univeristy of Kent Computer Science department by the Systems
148 Group. This has led to many bug fixes and minor feature
149 enhancements, and will hopefully help to aid the long term
150 development of the system.
151 </p>
152
153 <p>&nbsp;</p>
154 <center><h3>Project History</h3></center>
155
156 <p align="justify">
157 <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" width="100" height="104" align="left"></a>
158 The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off as
159 a final year project for a group of <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk">
160 Computer Science</a> students at the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk">
161 University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK. The project was completed at
162 4pm on 29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders containing
163 mostly source code and documentation. The CVS repository was tagged to
164 signify this even, however, the project is still being developed by the
165 <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">core development team</a>.
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169 <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" width="100" height="51" align="right"></a>
170 As can be seen in our &quot;<a href="/probdomain.shtml">problem domain</a>&quot; document, the project
171 was aimed at the UKC Computer Science department, and as such
172 we believed that a demonstration to the &quot;customer&quot; was important. The
173 feedback from our demonstation was more positive than we had
174 anticipated. We believe that the system may now be of interest
175 to anybody who wishes to monitor a number of machines on their
176 network using a central configuration. The i-scream central
177 monitoring system is now being used by the UKC Computer Science
178 department, and their feedback is being used to further improve
179 the product.
180 </p>
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182 <p align="justify">
183 <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-config.gif" width="100" height="48" align="left"></a>
184 The name <i>i-scream</i> arose from a meeting whereupon one member
185 of the <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">development team</a> felt a strange urge to draw an ice cream on the discussion board.
186 It later became apparent that we had no name for our project (other
187 than 'The Project'). It seemed only natural to name our project after
188 the ice cream that had been oh-so-randomly drawn on the white board.
189 Copyright issues immediately ruled out anything involving Mr Whippy,
190 so we had to settle for <i>i-scream</i>. And thus, we were left with a cunning
191 play on words - it still sounded like <i>ice cream</i>, yet also
192 served as a functional description of our system - namely, one which
193 screams at somebody if something has gone wrong...
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