Navigation

Issues

• Why do we scroll the navigation stuff goes off screen and you have to scroll back to the top to get to it.
• We'll have lesser use tools, including Terminal, or add-ons whose buttons that shouldn't always occupy real estate
• Switching between things is rather tedious.
  • Although browser tabs are a good approach for seeing multiple things, it should also be relatively painless to switch between two things within Cockpit.
• Not always clear what machine you are dealing with. This should be very clear.
• What is the relation between the navigation of the local server and the other servers in the network?
• Deep navigation trees under Storage for example.
• Not everything is a clear hierarchy, so the pathbar hurts in those situations
• Either the multi-machine dashboard should be usable for one machine, or shouldn't be shown for one machine.

Mockups at https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-design/tree/master/navigation

Goals:

• Easy to navigate between sections.
• Good notion of multi-machine
• App Centric -- Application is King
  • These are server applications, not utilities. ie: roles/services
  • Need to see how we'll handle multiple instances of apps/roles
• Nicely disable multi-machine parts when running under Foreman
• Work well under Atomic
• Space for tools/utilities
  • These are not apps
  • The terminal is such a tool

Concerns:

• the typical patternfly nav has scalability issues.

Braindump: Application/function/role examples: File server, domain server, database server, web server. The app/role is the only thing that matters, the core functions are there to serve that. Cores functions of a server serving: Network, Storage, Memory/CPU, Services? OS Services vs. Apps. Tools: terminal, users?? Status: Notifications, Alerts, Journal, graphs

Multi-machine Overview needs to be able to give you a good overview of 10 servers, how are their apps, what is going wrong with who right now? https://github.com/patternfly/patternfly/issues/14

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Server Dash

Guiding principle "What is going wrong?" Use cases:

• Disk usage
• Service inaccessible
  • Crashed
  • Firewall
  • Disk outage
  • Network/routing issue
  • SELinux problems
• Too slow
  • Networking overloaded
  • Swap
• Security issues
  • SCAP alerts
  • Software vulnerabilities

Server dash contents

• List of apps
• List of machines
• Current "problems" (see above)
• Resources

Server Dash

• Basic system information
• Maybe avatar?
• Resource graphs corellated by time

What are Tools/Utilities?

• Terminal
• Admin Accounts
• Detailed Systemd Manager
• Docker Manager
• ? Shutdown
• SCAP Configuration
• Subscriptions