[wildfly-dev] Administrator Encouragement

[Darran Lofthouse]

On 05/02/15 22:12, Jason Greene wrote:
>
>> On Feb 5, 2015, at 3:00 AM, Darran Lofthouse <darran.lofthouse at jboss.com> wrote:
>>
>> Last week a few of us started talking about the possibility of adding a
>> capability to WildFly that for want of a better name I was calling
>> "Administrator Encouragement”.
>
> Recommendations is a much better term.
>
> When I hear encouragement i keep thinking it says:
>
> “Wow you are a super awesome Administrator!”
> “Looking good!”
> “Excellent choice! I would have updated that value too!”
> “You can click yes, I’m sure it will all work out!"

If someone wants some experience writing a subsystem they could even use 
this capability to contact a remote service and download an 
inspirational message for the day to present to their administrators ;-)

>>
>> I am not looking for this to be a design thread, that can come later but
>> the general principal was that subsystems could register warnings with
>> some kind of central service that admin tools could then retrieve later
>> to advise administrators that some configuration could be required to
>> improve their installation.  Warnings would potentially have a severity
>> level and tooling would potentially have the option to guide the user to
>> the correct place to resolve the issue.
>>
>> Anyway the purpose of this thread is that I wanted to try and gather
>> together the kinds of warnings that we could be outputting, below is a
>> list of some I have thought of already but would be interested in
>> hearing any additional ideas.
>>
>>   - SSL is not configured.
>>   - SSL certificates are due to expire.
>>   - Plain text password detected in the configuration.
>>   - Some form of file based storage in use but growing beyond intended size.
>>   - Default node name  has not been changed.
>>   - Patches available but not applied, subsequent releases available.
>>
>> Anyway these are just a few ideas and interested in hearing any more.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Darran Lofthouse.
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> Jason T. Greene
> WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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