[Users] New UI plugin: UI-VDSM-Hooks

[René Koch (ovido)]

Sorry for not coming back to your earlier.
I was on vacation and afterwards totally busy with projects.
I'll check it this week and will let you know.


Regards,
René


On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 12:21 -0400, Vojtech Szocs wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> this plugin looks very cool!
> 
> I'm starting to realize that CGI scripts are quite handy for implementing any sort of server-side logic for UI plugins, especially since we have Apache web server in front of JBoss application server (Engine) in standard oVirt installation.
> 
> Looking at the code, this plugin should work fine with oVirt 3.2.1+ since showDialog API changes landed into 3.2.1 release.
> 
> Regarding the issue with bad dialog content - you can edit start.html and put following code right before api.showDialog call:
> 
>     window.alert(url);
> 
> This will show actual dialog content URL - you can try opening this URL normally in browser and see what happens. My guess is that it will show same thing as the dialog.
> 
> Important thing is, this URL points to *selected host* machine (not Engine), i.e. http://<hostAddress>/cgi-bin/ui-vdsm-hooks/ui-vdsm-hooks.cgi?command=<cmd>&args=<args>
> 
> This means selected host machine should have some web server like Apache installed with necessary CGI scripts in place, i.e. cgi-bin/ui-vdsm-hooks/ui-vdsm-hooks.cgi + cgi-bin/ui-vdsm-hooks/scripts/vdsClientApi.py -> CGI scripts are invoked right on given host machine.
> 
> Michael, René - can you try ^^ and let us know if you still encounter issues with bad dialog content? What happens when you manually open dialog content URL in browser?
> 
> Regards,
> Vojtech
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel Erez" <derez at redhat.com>
> > To: "René Koch (ovido)" <r.koch at ovido.at>
> > Cc: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 8:45:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] New UI plugin: UI-VDSM-Hooks
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "René Koch (ovido)" <r.koch at ovido.at>
> > > To: "Michael Wagenknecht" <Wagenknecht at FuH-E.de>
> > > Cc: "Daniel Erez" <derez at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 4:32:46 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Users] New UI plugin: UI-VDSM-Hooks
> > > 
> > > Hi Daniel,
> > > 
> > > First of all thanks for the very useful plugin!
> > > 
> > > Is this plugin compatible with oVirt 3.2.1 or is a newer version
> > > required (didn't update to 3.2.2 yet)? I'm having the same issue as
> > > Michale and I think api.showDialog causes this issue, but didn't had
> > > enough time to verify yet...
> > 
> > It would probably require newer builds...
> > As the plugin uses a rather recent API (e.g. adding a button
> > 'OnlyFromContext').
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > René
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 15:06 +0200, Michael Wagenknecht wrote:
> > > > Yes I have and the ui-vdsm-hooks.cgi is accessable from the web server.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Am 10.06.2013 14:59, schrieb Daniel Erez:
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > >> From: "Michael Wagenknecht"<Wagenknecht at FuH-E.de>
> > > > >> To: users at ovirt.org
> > > > >> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 1:15:34 PM
> > > > >> Subject: Re: [Users] New UI plugin: UI-VDSM-Hooks
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I have a problem with the plugin.
> > > > >> I installed it like the other ui-plugins I use, but if I choose a
> > > > >> function like "GetAllTasks", I only get a new window with the ovirt
> > > > >> startpage.
> > > > > Have you copied the cgi-bin folder into a web server in your host?
> > > > >
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Am 09.06.2013 18:40, schrieb Daniel Erez:
> > > > >>> Hi,
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> I've created a new UI plugin that allows invocation of VDSM commands
> > > > >>> directly from the WebAdmin (using CGI scripts and vdsClient).
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> You can read all about it in my blog: http://derezvir.blogspot.co.il/
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Thanks,
> > > > >>> Daniel
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