[Engine-devel] RFE: Netwrok Main Tab

[Moti Asayag]

On 09/23/2012 05:01 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> On 09/23/2012 04:55 PM, Alona Kaplan wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Avi Tal" <atal at redhat.com>
>>> To: "Alona Kaplan" <alkaplan at redhat.com>
>>> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>>> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 4:17:26 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] RFE: Netwrok Main Tab
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Alona Kaplan" <alkaplan at redhat.com>
>>>> To: "Avi Tal" <atal at redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>>>> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 1:31:32 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] RFE: Netwrok Main Tab
>>>>
>>>> 1. What actions do you suggest to add?
>>> Add, Edit and remove actions of each component.
>>>
>> Host:
>> Add- What will add action on Networks->Hosts sub tab do? Choose an
>> existing host and attach the network to one of its nics?
>> How will it work? after choosing the host you will open setupNetworks
>> window and just enable dragging of the selected network (in the main
>> tab) to a nic? I think it is too much.
>>
>> Edit- same as add.
>>
>> Remove- What is the meaning of Remove host in network's context? The
>> network will be detached from the host? I think it is confusing.
>>
>> Vm/Template:
>> Add: What will it do? You will choose a vm and then add a vnic to the
>> vm? Where will you see the vnic details?
>> Edit: Same as add.
>> Remove: You will remove all the vnics that use the selected network
>> from the vm? Or do you mean to add a remove per vnic?
> 
> For all the above: yes.
> We can certainly work on the small details, but having a main tab with
> little to no action whatsoever is kinda disappointing.

IMO adding 'assign' action in the main tab might be handy in order to
assign a single network in a single dialog to several clusters.

However It is not clear to me how Add/Edit for a VM in a sub-tab should
look like. The VM should have a list of interfaces (represented as sub
collection/tree).
What will be the meaning of 'Add' in that context? Since the VM already
have a vNIC attached to that network. If adding another once, it should
be enabled on the record representing the VM itself which will confuse
the user.
Same goes for 'Edit' of a VM interface under a context of a specific
network: in the current 'Edit VM Interface' you can change the network.
Should the same dialog be used here as well?

The 'Remove' option is the clearer action on this context.


> (example of 'small details' - yes, when clicking remove for a
> VM/template - it will remove all vNICs that use that network from the
> VM. A VM with more than one vNIC on the same network is not the common
> case anyway, and if you want to remove just a single vNIC, go to the
> VM). I think we can also live with Add/Remove only, and 'defer' the edit
> actions to the respectable objects (host/vm/template) edit dialog boxes
> that originates from their own main tab.
> 
> Y.
> 
>>>> 2. I don't understand your suggestion. You mean add SetupNetworks
>>>> to
>>>> the Networks main tab?
>>> No.
>>> Just Thinking of a nice display which will present logical network
>>> and his connected host/vm configuration instead of passing through
>>> dub-tabs
>>> I should give it a deeper thought.
>>>
>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Avi Tal" <atal at redhat.com>
>>>>> To: "Alona Kaplan" <alkaplan at redhat.com>
>>>>> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 6:58:05 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] RFE: Netwrok Main Tab
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Why not having Actions for Hosts, Vms and Templates ?
>>>>> I believe we should have those actions instead of making the user
>>>>> browse between 'network -> vms -> network (sub tab)' just in
>>>>> order
>>>>> to update VM's network.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Why having such a big window which most of the time will be
>>>>> empty?
>>>>>     How many logical network would be existed in the system?
>>>>>     My suggestion is to go for more graphical window which will
>>>>>     present:
>>>>>     A. logical networks
>>>>>     B. Multiple networks with the host configurations at the same
>>>>>     window: very important because most of the System admins would
>>>>>     like to have a bigger picture of the entire network
>>>>>     configuration
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Alona Kaplan" <alkaplan at redhat.com>
>>>>> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:50:15 PM
>>>>> Subject: [Engine-devel] RFE: Netwrok Main Tab
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Please review the wiki and add your comments.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Feature/NetworkMainTab
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> RFE:
>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/858742
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alona.
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