[wildfly-dev] Administrator Encouragement

[Jason Greene]

> On Feb 5, 2015, at 3:00 AM, Darran Lofthouse <darran.lofthouse at jboss.com> wrote:
> 
> Last week a few of us started talking about the possibility of adding a 
> capability to WildFly that for want of a better name I was calling 
> "Administrator Encouragement”.

Recommendations is a much better term.

When I hear encouragement i keep thinking it says: 

“Wow you are a super awesome Administrator!”
“Looking good!”
“Excellent choice! I would have updated that value too!”
“You can click yes, I’m sure it will all work out!"

> 
> I am not looking for this to be a design thread, that can come later but 
> the general principal was that subsystems could register warnings with 
> some kind of central service that admin tools could then retrieve later 
> to advise administrators that some configuration could be required to 
> improve their installation.  Warnings would potentially have a severity 
> level and tooling would potentially have the option to guide the user to 
> the correct place to resolve the issue.
> 
> Anyway the purpose of this thread is that I wanted to try and gather 
> together the kinds of warnings that we could be outputting, below is a 
> list of some I have thought of already but would be interested in 
> hearing any additional ideas.
> 
>  - SSL is not configured.
>  - SSL certificates are due to expire.
>  - Plain text password detected in the configuration.
>  - Some form of file based storage in use but growing beyond intended size.
>  - Default node name  has not been changed.
>  - Patches available but not applied, subsequent releases available.
> 
> Anyway these are just a few ideas and interested in hearing any more.
> 
> Regards,
> Darran Lofthouse.
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Jason T. Greene
WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
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