Thanks for verifying. I've opened the following.
Bug 859954 - Restart button is able to be clicked, but does not do anything for some
providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859954
Thanks
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Perry" <jeperry(a)redhat.com>
To: "Andrew Fitzsimon" <afitzsim(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "James Labocki" <jlabocki(a)redhat.com>, "Angus Thomas"
<athomas(a)redhat.com>, "aeolus-devel"
<aeolus-devel(a)fedorahosted.org>, "Tomas Hrcka" <thrcka(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 9:10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Restart Button Behavior in Conductor WUI
On Sep 24, 2012, at 3:36 AM, Andrew Fitzsimon <afitzsim(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> Why not hide the button ?
That's the proper solution. Another option that is less preferred is
to have a clearly disabled visual state for the button (grey it out)
so that it is obvious that the button is disabled.
For now, it sounds like we have a problem if a user thinks they can
click it and expects something to happen.
>
> On 24/09/2012, at 5:34 PM, Tomas Hrcka <thrcka(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 13:36 -0400, James Labocki wrote:
>>> I'd like to confirm the behavior I am experiencing is expected
>>> with regards to the restart button in conductor.
>>>
>>> 1. Launch two instances. One to RHEV provider and one to EC2
>>> provider.
>>>
>>> 2. Wait until instances are running.
>>>
>>> 3. Select RHEV instance and select "restart".
>>> a. Nothing happens in the conductor UI.
>>> b. Nothing happens in the RHEV-M interface.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 4. Select Amazon instance select "restart".
>>> a. Instance restarts in EC2
>>>
>>> Is this known and expected behavior that the restart button on
>>> RHEV can be selected, but it does not do anything?
>>
>> The restart button for providers without restart capabilities is
>> disabled. That is why nothing happens when you press the button,
>> it does
>> not send request to the conductor.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If this is a bug please let me know and I can open a bugzilla to
>>> fix it. If this is not a bug, can you provide insight on the
>>> level of effort to either:
>>>
>>> 1. check the provider when displaying instance information and
>>> remove the ability to press restart on providers that do not
>>> support restarting instances (RHEV)?
>>>
>>> 2. Make the restart button restart the instances on RHEV.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> -James
>>
>>