if this thread is being used to track initial some feedback, I’ll try to consolidate some of the discussion in the past into a central place, this is all personal feedback (and occasional feedback from others I work with who use Foreman / Katello / Satellite - but 90% me)
General overall formatting:
discussed in another thread, but using the example of the power button (issue already raised, thank you) the
Wall of Text:
Compared to the clear boarded and graphical enhanced tables, the global hosts page, just feels like a wall of text
Missing Visuals
the pretty logos showing the OS are a real value add at a glance when dealing with multi-platform hosts in foreman
The puppet red/yellow/green indicator to show the status of the puppet run / compliance of the hosts is a real loss of value, and I know customers will also complain as they use this to demonstrate continuous compliance internally and to auditors
Missing Functionality:
There is no way to see the status of a puppet run on the global host page any more (linked to the red/yellow/green point above) not only have the visuals gone but there is no way to see if the host is in sync or not, which in a environment of say 100+ hosts not being able to see success/failure patterns at a glance is crippling. You can see the last run, and boot time, but you have no idea unless you click on a host if that run was successful, and no way to order/filer by status.
The old edit button or the ‘select action’ button used to give some key options
power on / power off
execute task (normally a puppet run)
open console
These where essential day to day operational tasks, that both individual and bulk / batch where essential to efficiency, envs with 100+ nodes (up to 15k) need the ability to bluk power down, bulk power on, bulk execute a task, and quickly get to a console to validate something (coupled with the need to know are puppet runs succeeding)
Value add features like change a host group quickly where very useful, especially on batch
Those feel like enough ‘big’ issue feedback tickets that if they are accepted would really make a difference to the global host page that is the shop window, or ‘controller’ for a lot of orgs