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38     <h1 align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000066">i-scream
39     screenshots</font></h1>
40 pjm2 1.3 <h3 align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000066">(or the two minute
41 pjm2 1.1 tour)</font></h3>
42     </center>
43     <p><font size="2" face="Arial">This page provides a sequence of
44     screenshots to help you to gain a better understanding of the i-scream
45     distributed central monitoring system and how it may be applied in
46     networked environments.&nbsp; Click on the thumbnails to view the full
47     size screenshots.</font></p>
48     <p>&nbsp;</td>
49     </tr>
50     <center>
51     <tr>
52 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/reports-main.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="77"></a></font>
53 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
54     <td valign="top"><font color="#000066"><font face="Arial"><b>Reports Centre</b></font><b><font face="Arial">
55     (Web)</font></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
56     The i-scream reports centre provides a central access point to all
57     web-based reports that are provided by the i-scream system.&nbsp; Reports
58     are available to display information about the current status of an
59     individual machine and any alerts pertaining to either an individual
60     machine, or a summary of alerts for all machines.&nbsp; Historical
61     information about monitored machines may also be accessed from this point.</font>
62     <p>&nbsp;</td>
63     </tr>
64     <tr>
65 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-latest-misc.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="104"></a></font>
66 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
67     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Latest Information
68     (Web)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
69     Here we are viewing the latest information provided by a host.&nbsp; Bars
70     are used to represent values such as disk space and free memory as this
71     makes it easier to spot casual problems.&nbsp; The small graph icons link
72     to historical reports of each field for the previous day.&nbsp; The choice
73     of fields to display on this page is stored in a separate configuration
74     file.</font>
75     <p>&nbsp;</td>
76     </tr>
77     <tr>
78 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/conient-main.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="110"></a></font>
79 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
80     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial"><font color="#000066">Conient (Multiplatform
81     real-time client)</font><br>
82     </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Conient is a real-time client that
83     can hook into an i-scream server to allow the user to view host
84     information as it passes through the server.&nbsp; The client displays
85     information provided by the hosts as well as the results of service checks
86     performed by the server on each host (eg FTP, Telnet, etc).&nbsp; Conient
87     is written in Java and can thus be run on most operating systems.</font>
88     <p>&nbsp;</td>
89     </tr>
90     <tr>
91 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/conient-platform-info.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-platform-info.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="59"></a></font>
92 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
93     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient (Viewing
94     extra data)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
95     Less important host information may be viewed in a seperate window to
96     avoid clutter in Conient's display.&nbsp; Details of the protocol for
97     host-to-server communications are freely available to developers.&nbsp;
98     The protocol itself is extensible and client programs such as Conient
99     display even unrecognised data from modified host programs.</font>
100     <p>&nbsp;</td>
101     </tr>
102     <tr>
103 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/conient-config.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-config.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="48"></a></font>
104 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
105     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient
106     (Configuration)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
107     Conient is fully configurable from within the program itself.&nbsp;
108     Multiple configurations may be saved.&nbsp; Conient can also be configured
109     to connect to a server through a firewall via an SSH tunnel or suchlike.</font>
110     <p>&nbsp;</td>
111     </tr>
112     <tr>
113 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/ihost-main.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-ihost-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="51"></a></font>
114 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
115     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">ihost (Unix/Linux
116     host)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
117     The ihost is currently the main Unix/Linux/FreeBSD host application for
118     i-scream.&nbsp; ihost is centrally configured by the server it connects to
119     and periodically sends information about the machine on which it is
120     running.&nbsp; The ihost is written in Perl, so can be easily altered to
121     send extra information to your i-scream server.</font>
122     <p>&nbsp;</td>
123     </tr>
124     <tr>
125 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/winhost-main.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-winhost-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="62"></a></font>
126 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
127     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">WinHost (Windows
128     host)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
129     The WinHost is similar in concept to the ihost, however, this one runs on
130     Windows NT/2000 servers.&nbsp; Again, the configuration is dynamically
131     obtained from the server.&nbsp; The WinHost is typically only present in
132     the Windows system tray.&nbsp; Double clicking on the system tray icon
133     will bring up a small window that allows data to be viewed and to force
134     reconfiguration with the server.</font>
135     <p>&nbsp;</td>
136     </tr>
137     <tr>
138 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/alerter-email.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-email.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="74"></a></font>
139 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
140     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Email)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
141     The i-scream server includes many alerting mechanisms.&nbsp; Simple email
142     alerts may be sent out if desired.&nbsp; Alert levels and frequencies may
143     be configured for the server.&nbsp; This screenshot shows the format of a
144     typical alert; the contents of which are of course configurable.</font>
145     <p>&nbsp;</td>
146     </tr>
147     <tr>
148 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/alerter-irc.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-alerter-irc.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="95"></a></font>
149 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
150     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (IRC bot)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
151     Another i-scream alerter comes in the form of an interactive IRC bot.&nbsp;
152     This may reside in an IRC (Internet relay chat) channel and broadcasts
153     alerts if told to do so.&nbsp; This screenshot shows a typical interaction
154     with a user in the &quot;Bersirc&quot; IRC client.</font>
155     <p>&nbsp;</td>
156     </tr>
157     <tr>
158 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/reports-alerts-all.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-alerts-all.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="96"></a></font>
159 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
160     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Web page)</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
161     Individual alerts and a summary of all alerts raised by the i-scream
162     server may be viewed on the alerts web pages.&nbsp; These show the
163     different levels of alerts in configurable colours and provides specific
164     details about the alerts being raised for each machine.</font>
165     <p>&nbsp;</td>
166     </tr>
167     <tr>
168 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/reports-public-autoscroll.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-public-autoscroll.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="78"></a></font>
169 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
170     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Alerts (Public
171     helpdesk display)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
172     </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The reports centre also provides a
173     page that may be useful in configuring non-interactive public displays of
174     alerts.&nbsp; These displays automatically refresh the page periodically
175     and supported web browsers may also automatically scroll the page to allow
176     a large font to be employed for easier reading from a distance.</font>
177     <p>&nbsp;</td>
178     </tr>
179     <tr>
180 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/conient-queues.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-conient-queues.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="159"></a></font>
181 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
182     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Conient (Server queue
183     monitoring)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
184     </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The Conient client may also be used
185     to monitor information about the i-scream server itself.&nbsp; Here we are
186     viewing the status of the internal queues within the server.&nbsp; This
187     shows that the server is performing healthily and that there are no
188     bottlenecks.&nbsp; </font></td>
189     </tr>
190     <tr>
191 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/reports-raptor-load15.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="107"></a></font>
192 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
193     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Historical reports
194     (Web)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
195     </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Historical information is collated
196     by the i-scream server into (typically) a MySQL database.&nbsp; A separate
197     program is used to produce the historical web reports These may be browsed
198     via this web-based interface (see screenshot).&nbsp; The reports to be
199     generated for each machine and the size of the page are of course
200     configurable.</font>
201     <p>&nbsp;</td>
202     </tr>
203     <tr>
204 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/reports-raptor-users.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-users.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="96"></a></font>
205 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
206     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">Historical reports
207     (Metadata)</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
208     </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The historical report generation
209     also produces a number of other files that may be useful for third party
210     analysis tools.&nbsp; The chart itself is written as a GIF image, as well
211     as a small file suitable for including on PHP pages that specifies the
212     minimum and maximum values during the 24 hour period.&nbsp; A file
213     containing the raw plot data is also produced to enable the use of third
214     party on-the-fly plotting tools.</font>
215     <p>&nbsp;</td>
216     </tr>
217     <tr>
218 pjm2 1.2 <td valign="top" width="100"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="screenshots/server-main.gif"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-server-main.gif" alt="click to enlarge!" width="100" height="100"></a></font>
219 pjm2 1.1 <p>&nbsp;</td>
220     <td valign="top"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000066">The i-scream server</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
221     </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The server is distributed and may
222     therefore have multiple points of data entry and run on more than one
223     machine.&nbsp; This helps to reduce the amount of host traffic over large
224     networks and reduces potential bottlenecks.&nbsp; The server is written in
225     Java to allow it to run on most operating systems.&nbsp; This exciting
226     screenshot shows the i-scream server running ;-)</font>
227     <p>&nbsp;</td>
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