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<center><h3>Current Status</h3></center> |
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Most i-scream components are now functioning to initial |
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design parameters and data can now be passed through the |
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system and displayed successfully. Documentation is still |
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being generated, to allow for future development of the |
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i-scream project. Detailed information can usually be |
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found in the meeting minutes. Code is viewable via CVS |
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to UKC users only. |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" width="100" height="62" align="left"></a> |
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All i-scream components now function to initial |
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design parameters and our system is regarded to be complete. |
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<b><a href="worddocs/">Documentation</a></b> 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 <a href="http://raptor.ukc.ac.uk/~tdb1/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi">CVS</a> to local users users only. |
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The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System Reports |
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are now visible on the web. You may view all reports |
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available for each day, but please remember that this is |
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work in progress still, so the only data currently viewable |
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is our own data that has been harvested by our own testing. |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="right"></a> |
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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. If you are <b>not</b> a local user, then you may |
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view some of the output in the <b><a href="screenshots/">screenshots</a></b> section. |
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You may view the latest information about each machine, historical 24-hour |
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reports and alerts for each machine. Our own i-scream server is running constantly, |
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along with several hosts to enable plenty of data harvesting. If you would |
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like your i-scream web reports to be linked from this site, then please email us |
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at <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a> |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-main.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a> |
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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 (viewable in a web browser). Realtime |
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clients are also currently being developed - one Java Swing GUI |
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version and also a command line version that can run in a terminal |
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window. Alerting mechanisms are being put in place to complete the |
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i-scream system. |
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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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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" width="100" height="107" align="right"></a> |
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The latest builds of the i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System |
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are now available for <b><a href="/downloads/">download</a></b> from this |
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website. To assist in our addition of features to the system, we |
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would be extremely grateful to receive feedback from anybody who has |
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any comments about the system. You may email the development team |
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at <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org.uk">dev@i-scream.org.uk</a> |
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<center><h3>Project Completion</h3></center> |
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The project deadline is 4pm on 29 March. As such, we plan to |
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complete the coding process by (at the latest) the end of the |
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project week (26/2 - 2/3). This allows time for documentation |
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to be tidied up and completed, and printing of the project. |
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The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off as |
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a final year project for a group of <a href="http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk">Computer Science</a> students at |
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the <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk">University of Kent at Canterbury</a>, UK. |
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The project deadline was 4pm on 29th 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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the project is still being developed by the <a href="acknowledgments.shtml">core development team</a> |
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as we have found the system to be very useful in practice. We would |
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love to hear of ideas for extra features that we may include in the |
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next builds. |
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As can be seen in the "problem domain" document, the project |
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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" width="100" height="51" align="right"></a> |
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As can be seen in our "<a href="worddocs/">problem domain</a>" 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. We |
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plan to do this over the next two weeks, and the feedback given |
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will allow any "last minute" alterations to be completed. |
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we believed that a demonstration to the "customer" was important. The |
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feedback from our demonstation was more positive than we had |
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anticipated. We believe that the system 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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<a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-config.gif" width="100" height="48" align="left"></a> |
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The name <i>i-scream</i> arose from a meeting whereupon one member |
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of the <a href="acknowledgements.shtml">development team</a> felt a strange urge to draw an ice cream on the discussion board. |
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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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so we had to settle for <i>i-scream</i>. 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... |
