[wildfly-dev] Management console web application

[Brian Stansberry]

On 12/10/14, 9:28 AM, Dev Ops wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Brian Stansberry
> <brian.stansberry at redhat.com <mailto:brian.stansberry at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/10/14, 5:14 AM, Dev Ops wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Harald Pehl <hpehl at redhat.com <mailto:hpehl at redhat.com>
>     > <mailto:hpehl at redhat.com <mailto:hpehl at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >>
>     >>     Am 09.12.2014 um 12:42 schrieb Dev Ops <devopsmoreorless at gmail.com <mailto:devopsmoreorless at gmail.com>
>      >>     <mailto: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.
>     >
>     >
>     > 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.
>
>
> Great! Thus implementing a download-content button should be pretty
> straightforward.
>

Are you saying you plan to take on the server-side bit? That would be 
great, and I'd be happy to help out.

> Dates for WF 9.0.0.Final? More or less... :-)
>
>
>     >
>     >>     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
>     >
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>     On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Harald Pehl <hpehl at redhat.com <mailto:hpehl at redhat.com>
>     >>     <mailto:hpehl at redhat.com <mailto:hpehl at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>         The source code for the management console lives in its own
>     >>         repository athttps://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>
>     <mailto: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
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>     >>
>     >>
>     >
>     >     ---
>     >     Harald Pehl
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