[wildfly-dev] Management console web application

[Brian Stansberry]

On 12/10/14, 5:14 AM, Dev Ops wrote:
>
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> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Harald Pehl <hpehl at redhat.com
> <mailto:hpehl at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>     Am 09.12.2014 um 12:42 schrieb Dev Ops <devopsmoreorless at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:devopsmoreorless at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>     thanks for pointing me to the github repo.
>>
>>     I need to do a couple of things:
>>
>>      1. provide a graphical and complete view of all server-groups -
>>         along with the hosts - something like the following
>>         http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1062288
>     That's something we've always wanted to have in the console.
>     Currently the console has some weak points when it comes to manage
>     big domains with lots of hosts and servers. Some kind of bird's-eye
>     view for big topologies would definitely be an improvement.
>>
>>      2. provide a button to download the deployed application;
>     Not sure what's the use case behind that. Maybe you can elaborate
>     more on that.
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> Most of the time I "operate" in environments and situation where there
> is NOT an artifact repository.
> People merely know the existence of words like CI, CD and so on, thus
> before upgrading a web-application they need to back it up.
> Having a button next to the application can be handy.
>

Supporting this would require some server-side functionality, as we 
don't expose the content in the content repository via the management 
API. It would probably be pretty simple to do though, using the 
attach-a-stream-to-a-response thing we've added in 9. Used now by the 
log download feature.

>
>>     Next would be extending point 2. by providing different colors for
>>     different metric values.
>>     Likely, heap memory metric going to saturation, the balloon would
>>     be colored has almost red (#cc0000)... every hosts could have its
>>     own metric (heap memory, cpu usage, connection pool statistics,
>>     etc...).
>>     Alerts and notifications are not needed, as there are already
>>     other software accomplishing these tasks (nagios, jon, etc...).
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     DevOps guy
>
>     Any contributions which address these enhancements are highly
>     welcome! The management console is implemented in GWT. There's some
>     documentation about the internals and how to get started at [1]. You
>     can ping me anytime on #wildfly-management if you need more details
>     or to discuss the next steps.
>
>     [1] http://hal.github.io/
>
>     .: Harald
>
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>>     On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Harald Pehl <hpehl at redhat.com
>>     <mailto:hpehl at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>         The source code for the management console lives in its own
>>         repository at https://github.com/hal/core
>>
>>         I'm curious, what kind of customization do you have in mind?
>>
>>         .: Harald
>>
>>>         Am 09.12.2014 um 11:06 schrieb Dev Ops
>>>         <devopsmoreorless at gmail.com <mailto:devopsmoreorless at gmail.com>>:
>>>
>>>         Hi all,
>>>         where do I find the source of the web application which
>>>         provides the Management console?
>>>
>>>         I need to add something to it, but I don't know where to get
>>>         the source.
>>>
>>>
>>>         TIA,
>>>         DevOps guy
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>>         Harald Pehl
>>         JBoss by Red Hat
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Brian Stansberry
Senior Principal Software Engineer
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