Re: [wildfly-dev] Domain Overview design

From: "Jason Greene" <jason.greene(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Liz Clayton" <lclayton(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: wildfly-dev(a)lists.jboss.org Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 12:45:38 PM Subject: Re: [wildfly-dev] Domain Overview design On Jul 24, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Liz Clayton <lclayton(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sketching out some ideas for the Domain Overview screen. I'd like to > find a visualization that make it easier to scan the page to determine > server availability, and possibly alerts. > > Given that the domain could be large, the visualization needs to scale. I > started by looking at heatmap visualizations, which worked pretty well. > Although I didn't feel like they helped in describing the overall > relationships of servers, server groups and hosts... So I decided to break > the heat maps into individual (stacked) heatmaps, ordered by server group. > My hope is that this helps to define groupings and such. > > I posted the current design proposal at: > https://community.jboss.org/wiki/DomainOverview070114pdf > > It would be great to get feedback on the designs. Some questions I have > are: > - Is it difficult/easy to understand that the boxes, in the server > groupings, are intended to represent servers? > - Should the servers be laid out in the visualization by level of > availability/status (as illustrated), or by some other ordering (A-Z, > Z-A...)? > - Is it difficult/easy to understand that when a box is a different color, > that it is indicating its availability status? > - What do you expect to be the relationship between (Availability) Status > and Alerts? Would “x” alerts equate to a change in availability status, or > can they function independently? For example: Could you have an error on a > server and it still be “available?” Thanks for forwarding this proposal Liz! While I chew on this, I have posted this on the user forums and twitter as well: https://community.jboss.org/message/882227#882227 https://twitter.com/jtgreene/status/492347878254182401

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