[Hawkular-dev] Generic Hawkular-UI in MiQ

[Alissa Bonas]

see this comment (the last part of it) that mentions a somewhat similar
dynamic concept

http://talk.manageiq.org/t/rethinking-providers-and-managers/2494/11

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Heiko Rupp <hrupp at redhat.com> wrote:

> Now that Caina is doing a PoC I want to revisit the
> source of metadata question again.
>
> On 30 May 2017, at 23:11, Jay Shaughnessy wrote:
>
> > changes to MIQ.  As Mazz said, it's a throwback to RHQ where
> > persistence and UI was generically implemented.  The
>
> This is to quickly get a 70% version out and to be able to
> quickly add new monitored stuff. This should and will not
> prevent us from generating more dedicated UI screens later.
>
> >  * the UI config may need more presentation-only info, I'm not sure
>
> Yes
>
> >  * the UI config wouldn't necessarily need everything in the agent
> > config
> >  * it maintains our current decentralized approach to agent config
>
> This one I am no longer sure about. It was a great idea
> back in the day. I see two cases
>
> * user uses the same config for all WildFlys - why do we
> want to duplicate the metadata for all of those if
> the (RT) config is effectively the same?
> * user has modified the agent config to have
> more/less fields. In this case the current MiQ UI would
> not adapt to it and in either way just not show the
> data. And it may not even be clear when there are
> two WildFly in inventory with different configs, why they
> don't show this difference
>
> For WildFly in container it may even be less interesting
> with the current approach as here all the WildFlys will be
> built on one base image (that we supply with a baked in
> config?).
>
>
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