Restart Button Behavior in Conductor WUI

James Labocki jlabocki at redhat.com
Mon Sep 24 13:26:37 UTC 2012


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 at redhat.com>
> To: "Andrew Fitzsimon" <afitzsim at redhat.com>
> Cc: "James Labocki" <jlabocki at redhat.com>, "Angus Thomas" <athomas at redhat.com>, "aeolus-devel"
> <aeolus-devel at fedorahosted.org>, "Tomas Hrcka" <thrcka at 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 at 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 at 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
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> 



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