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, in approximately priority
order:
- Add full support for user-defined Properties to the Properties page.
- Add support for using PhysicalLocation attribute for rack placement.
- Switch the Define and Condition pages to use POST internally.
- If no nodes exist, display text explaining how to create them.
- Scalabilty improvements:
- When a large # of nodes are displayed on the main page, only get the 1st 50.
- Clean up code for HW Ctrl page
- Install page:
- Set up page should use InstallTemplate attribute as default for the template
file
- Implement remaining buttons: Test Console, Copy Distros, Run Install
Probe.
- Expand Sensor page to include creating/modifying sensors on nodes and forcing
their execution immediately
- Add copycsmpkgs to Updatenode page.
- Add a 1st time user/set up cluster wizard 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.
- Implement a summary page
- Software Maintenance page: Allow distro CDs to be made available
as ISOs and mounted
- Scalability improvement: use post instead of get to pass arguments
to web server, only when there is a long list of nodes.
- Modify the web interface so it can start up before CSM is installed, so it can be used to install CSM on the mgmt svr.
- Port this interface to AIX.
- Have this interface launched from IBM Director.
Known Defects
- When you use the browser's Back button to return to the main page, the
image checkboxes of the rack nodes are not checked.
- There seems to be a bug in Internet Explorer that prevents the Ping button
from being invoked when hitting enter in the Interfaces textfield. (It
works correctly in Firefox.)
- Alternate text for images is not displaying in hover help (balloon text)
in Firefox.
- When a node range with + is used on the main screen, it tries to resolve
the range text (and therefore appears to hang).
The Change Log describing recent enhancements is in the
README file.