Hi,
to giving feedback about the Foreman host details under “All Hosts” is since foreman 3.0 the column “environment” missing. → related to this issue - Foreman UI - new joined nodes are not displaying "OS" or "Environment" in hosts-tab - #20 by cooler22
after discussion with @ekohl this could be an issue new foreman_puppet plugin that doesn’t add the column and maybe that was missed in the extraction from core.
That’s really about the host list page, not the host detail page.
Having the Runtime widget (Config Retrieval and Runtime) overview has proven to be really helpful with tuning our installation properly for performance across a large installations, and if it’s not too heavy to keep such a widget on the new host detail page (or if there’s somewhere else to retrieve an average / overview of such stats) it would still prove to be extremely useful! Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback, I think the plan is to keep this chart based on the configuration reports in the respective tabs. FYI @lzap @MariSvirik @amirfefer
The chart will definitely not be with Foreman 3.2 but we would like to get it back. It was quite heavy on resources thos as it needs to load 7 days of reports, parse all metadata (YAML) and draw the stuff. In the new design, this is not changing - it just needs to load whole report body (JSON).
Having said that, this should have been using Rails Cache from the day one, so at least we can ensure that once this is fetched once in 30 minutes (the puppet interval), we can grab it from cache quickly.
I’ve found the need to go back to the old UI in order to check on broken templates
Thanks @James_Shewey, could you please describe the flow in more details? Do you go to the templates tab and “Review” the e.g. provisioning template? Perhaps the list of associated templates would be a good addition to the new Details tab.
@Marek_Hulan - Yes that is correct. From host Host Overview, I then click the Legacy UI option, then click the templates tab and then click on the upside-down carat (^) symbol or down arrow and right click on “review” and open in new tab (Loading the page while losing the navigation interface has always felt clunky to me and that was my workaround).
It would definitely be great to have that on the details page. I don’t care if it gets buried somewhere as long as I will still be able to get to it when the old UI goes away.
As an aside, in Chrome, I am unable to change tabs when in a content view. So if I am on https://example.com/content_views/4#/versions, for example I have to manually go to the address bar and change the URL to https://example.com/content_views/4#/repositories in order to view/switch to the “Repositories” tab in 3.2.
If my understanding is correct the switcher will be fixed by a cherry pick, see Foreman core Maintainers meeting on 2022-04-06
New UI has a great potential. If it will be possible to add some tiles with info from old hosts page, like HW, OS, Facts… all on tiles which you will be able to enable/disable and move as you like.
Totally, there’s a PR that adds the details tab, which should be full of information. They can be collapsed (and such preference will be stored for the user) so one could tailor, what all is relevant.
I would like to see the old button to “schedule remote job” on the host.
Now I have to go to “Monitor → Jobs”.
And what is the “>_ console" button”? Mine is disabled.
I’m not sure what version you’re on, but the button is still there in the top right corner.
IIRC that’s access to a serial line-like console for machines which support it. It is quite possible that previously it was hidden if unavailable, but now it is shown, but disabled.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but the Web Console button is missing from the new UI, or I am at least not finding it. Need to revert to legacy/old ui to get to it.
if it’s a VM, it takes you to the relevant console (console output from AWS, VNC/SPICE etc)
newer version of REX already adds that to the kebab menu
My org recently upgraded to 3.2, here’s some of my feedback:
@mymindstorm Thanks for the feedback!
Could “Host Group” under the “Details” tile be made a link to the host group again?
Great idea. I will look into doing this.
About the ‘Templates’ tab and build button, thoughts @Ron_Lavi or @Marek_Hulan ?
Gotcha, now it’s hidden in the kebab menu. I think we will revisit this when the kebab menu is full of actions. It may be good to add a Provisioning overview card so it’s immediatelly clear, what’s the status of it. I suppose that would only be displayed if the Host has build status defined.
For the templates, we’re tracking the following stories in upcoming version or two.
I’m on version 3.2.1 of Foreman and 4.4.0.2 of Katello, and I don’t have that button
What is your Remote Execution plugin version? Find it under Administer → About → Plugins. 7.1.0 has it for sure, based on what I see in github, is was introduced in 6.1.0 by Fixes #34260 - add rex features dropdown to host page · theforeman/foreman_remote_execution@1e337b8 · GitHub
