[wildfly-dev] Domain Overview design

[Jason Greene]

On Jul 24, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Liz Clayton <lclayton at redhat.com> 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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Jason T. Greene
WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat