Send Sugestions to the CSM Development Team
Suggestions, bug reports, bug fixes, etc., are always welcome.
Please post them to the CSM mailing list. To post,
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Contributions are also welcome, such as minor new features,
better images, or even whole new pages. See the developer section of
the CSM Linux GUI white paper for more info. Thanks!
Todo List
The following items are already on our todo list:
- Save current list of nodes on main page in cookie
- Implement physical layout page
- Use the remoteshell.expect in base CSM to pass the env
var for the pw (defect 101998)
- Use the new latest seq # attribute (LastSeqNumber) to
speed up monitoring queries and output of certain # of
lines (defect 102500)
- Implement remaining buttons on the Install page: Test Console, Copy
Distros, Run Install Probe.
- Add copycsmpkgs to Updatenode page.
- Make the perf mon page extensible so users can add their
own conditions
- Make the main page extensible so users can add their own
attributes to be shown in the node table.
- Some scalabilty improvements:
- Use post instead of get to pass arguments to web
server
- Allow user to do "-a" operations to all
nodes without having to display/list all nodes
- Add a 1st time user/set up cluster wizard page
- Add ability to create/list/change/remove sensors
- Finish Software Maintenance page:
- Automatically install perl-DB_File when installing autoupdate (and put both in the directories to be installed on the nodes)
- Allow distro CDs to be made available as ISOs and mounted
- Add a modify nodes option to the nodedef file support in
Define Node page.
- Have this interface launched from IBM Director.
- Port this interface to AIX.
Known Defects
- Dsh cmd history does not get set if you use the browser's back button after
the cmd has run.
The Change Log describing recent enhancements is in the
README file.