Tom (and Admin team),
As I mentioned last week I have a conflict this week so I can not attend
the admin meeting. In regards to the topic concerning {create,
delete}-instance and the offline instance message:
1) Do we feel strongly that the existence of this message is more useful
to users than confusing? I assume most users do not understand the
design of the product or the need for these commands to be replicated
behind the scenes.
My reaction when I first saw this message was concern about what went
wrong, why it went wrong and what I now need to do to correct the
situation. (The reality was I did not need to be concerned and I did
not need to take any action)
2) Is this going to be a common scenario repeated and seen by many -
e.g. create a bunch of instances prior to starting them?
3) What do we expect most users to do with this information? Why is it
useful to them? If it really is just an info message concerning the
overall health of the cluster (e.g. hey buddy, FYI, not all instances
are up - just thought you should know) then shouldn't it say that
instead of saying the command could not be replicated (since the user
isn't expected to replicate the command in this case)?
4) If I can't convince folks to drop the message all together...
WARNING : Instance c1i1_aha seems to be offline; Command was not
replicated to that instance
...then we need to improve this message so that it eases any concerns a
user may have that they now need to do something to resolve the fact
that the command was not replicated. Maybe something like:
INFO: The following cluster instance could not be contacted during this
operation. The instance will be notified when it becomes available:
c1i1_aha
Chris
Tom Mueller wrote:
> Here is the agenda for today's admin iteam meeting. Just one topic
> from last week, plus status reports.
> Please let me know if you have additional topics.
> http://wikis.sun.com/display/GlassFish/AdminIteam
> Tom
>
>
> Meeting Details:
>
> Tuesdays 3PM Pacific
> Room: PEZ, SCA 22, 1st floor, 1305
> US toll free: 866-682-4770
> Code: 1485398#
> Security Code: 4321#
> Email alias: admin_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>
>
> Agenda - Nov 9, 2010
>
> * warning message from create-instance (about down instances)
>
> * General Topics
> o Quality update
> + Monitoring
> + Admin Infrastructure
> o Documentation update
>
>