On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 14:04 +0000, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 09:41 -0400, Kevin Thorley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 09:32 -0400, Damian Krzeminski wrote:
> > > Scott Lawrence wrote:
> > > > Currently the Configuration->Services page displays all the
> > > > individual services (in some order): 
> > > > 
> > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > Some questions to consider:
> > > >       * Do administrators need to be able to be able to "explode" the
> > > >         group to see what's inside them even if they cannot control them
> > > >         individually?
> > > 
> > > Yes. Also they need to have a way to access low level parameters in for
> > > each service.
> > 
> > Or, does a user not care what service a particular config param belongs
> > to?  When the service config params were on the System page, they
> > weren't identified as belonging to a particular service.  When I moved
> > them to individual service pages I got some pushback, saying that it
> > made it too difficult to know where to look.  So, maybe we should be
> > configuring these things at the group level.  Of course there are things
> > like logging that need to be configured at service level, but logging is
> > a special case that probably needs to be handled separately anyways
> 
> One thing to factor in when thinking about this:
> 
> Some services have multiple instances.  In some cases, the instances are
> independent (multiple ACDs for example) and parameters in different
> instances might have different values for good local reasons.  In other
> cases, the instances are not independent (replicated proxies and
> registrars) and all parameters that are not specific to the instance
> (like addresses) MUST be kept consistent.
> 
> 

Yes, but in the case of the UI layout you presented, any given page only
displays the groups that are installed and running on a given server,
correct?  Are there any cases where more than one service of a type runs
on the same server?  

Kevin


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