On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 10:39 -0400, Ted Miller wrote: > On 3/18/2014 6:29 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: > > we are brainstorming on what should we change in the oVirt UI for 4.0. > > for current brainstorming phase, "anything goes" - i.e., I'd like us to > > ignore current limitations and flows, and envision/fantasize the "perfect > > solution". > > > > SO - what do YOU think we should consider for 4.0 UI concept, flows, etc. > I have an idea, though it may be relevant only to smaller setups. > > I would like one place that I can go and see the health of my system. Right > now I am running a cluster in test mode, and I have to look at several places > before I have confidence that all is well: > Data Center > Storage (I am using gluster) > Hosts > VMs > > The natural place for me to look would seem to be the left bar. If the icons > there had a color change to reflect status, I could just hit "Expand All" and > the color would immediately tell me the system status. Same icons would work, > with just a background or little square of color. > > I realize that my little 3-host system is the exception, because (so far) I > can hit "Expand all" and I can still see the whole thing. I will not have to > deploy many more VMs before it will not all fit. > > There may be a better way to do this, e.g. another choice between "Expand > all" and "Collapse All" that would expand all except the lowest level. It > would then show me categories like "Storage", "Networks", "Hosts", "Volumes" > and "VMs" with a health color indication for each cluster. If I see anything > I am not expecting, I can expand that heading and see the status of the > individual items. > > There may be a better way to do this, but I know that it is somewhat > frustrating to check first thing in the morning and have to do some many > clicks before I have confidence that nothing bad happened overnight. I have > actually found it faster to click on the "Events" tab and see if there are > any nasty messages there, rather than checking current status. > > I look forward to the insights of others as to how they monitor cluster > status.
+1 Really clever, I like:)
Perhaps just change the default of of the left bar to have some of the
top-level branches already expanded, like:
ˇ System
ˇ Data Centers
ˇ MyDC
> Storage
> Network
> Clusters
With some indication of how they´re doing, to get a good health
overview. Maybe just use one of the standard exclamation marks, like
what´s attached in the mail?
/K
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