[wildfly-dev] Domain Overview design

[Liz Clayton]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Greene" <jason.greene at redhat.com>
> To: "Liz Clayton" <lclayton at redhat.com>
> Cc: wildfly-dev at 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 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

Thanks for checking it out, and for getting it out there!
-Liz 

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> Jason T. Greene
> WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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