+ We have moved the i-scream support and bug tracking to a new
+ facility on the i-scream server. For further details please
+ see this page.
+
+ Sunday 8 June 2003
+ The i-scream website, email, and cvs facilities are now all
+ run from a FreeBSD server.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Tuesday 4 February 2003
+ Over the coming week we will be making snapshot builds of the
+ i-scream central monitoring system from the CVS repository.
+ These builds will have quite a few changes from the downloads
+ currently available (a document detailing them will be
+ released later on), so please give them a whirl. We would be
+ grateful if you contacted
+ us with any questions or bugs.
Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has
- been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to see an
- efficient host at last! Credit goes to our new developer
+ been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to finally
+ see an efficient native host! Credit goes to our new developer
Pete. Until we update the downloads
pages you can download the new ihost
-
+
here.
@@ -30,32 +65,16 @@
backend which took up far too many resources. This new system
generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more
flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available
- through
CVS.
- The alerting section of the i-scream central monitoring system
- now makes full use of an externally developed IRC bot for it's IRC
- connectivity. To find out more about this IRC bot, please visit
- the author's website at
- http://www.jibble.org.
-
-
-
Tuesday 8 Jan 2002
Java ACL (Access Control List) code has been added to the util
package of the i-scream server. This code will ultimately allow
the server to be more secure when exposed to the Internet. More
- details can be found
+ details can be found
here on the author's website.
@@ -79,7 +98,7 @@
documentation page has details of
installation, use and maintenance for the end user and developer.
We value feedback and comments from you, so please drop us an e-mail
- to dev@i-scream.org.uk.
+ to dev@i-scream.org.
@@ -93,6 +112,8 @@
features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage,
along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve
the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place.
+ There are also many more subtle changes that need to be made to
+ improve the reliability and usefulness of i-scream's monitoring.
@@ -122,8 +143,8 @@
The i-scream Distributed Central Monitoring System started off as
- a final year project for a group of
- Computer Science students at the
+ a final year project for a group of
+ Computer Science students at the
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. The project was completed at
4pm on 29 March 2001. It consisted of five lever-arch folders containing
mostly source code and documentation. The CVS repository was tagged to
@@ -173,11 +194,11 @@