[Planetlab-devel] denoting peer nodes

[Thierry Parmentelat]

The first (current) iteration was, in a quick&dirty approach, to show 
foreign objects (that includes nodes) with a light-gray background. 
We've actually forgotten some views - like, I just checked, the 
manage-slice's-nodes view - but that was the simplest we came up with 
for a 2-peer federation.
I had also planned to provide for a multi-colored scheme, that could 
have scaled to a few peers, but that didn't happen yet - not sure that's 
worth it in fact. (btw, there's also a 'peers' view that's probably 
restricted to admins right now, but that could/should have wider audience)
Now of course for scaling beyond that, we might come up with an 
alternative naming scheme, like the ones you are discussing within the 
geni arch.

About this slice-nodes view, I've personally never been quite happy with 
the way it works. Having to select a site first is not user-friendly, so 
I expect more or less everyone uses the --all sites-- magic. We should 
have a more complete set of filters there, upon node name, peer, site, 
or whatever - like also comon information if we were determined enough 
to partially cache it in the DB.
It was probably more important to have filtering on that view than where 
I've put it first, my mistake.

Larry Peterson wrote:
> I'd like to establish how we're going to reveal what
> nodes are managed by what peers (MAs). Not that people
> peruse the nodes list, but for starters, they should
> see the peer (for non-local nodes) when they do. When
> users add nodes to their slices, they should also be
> able to filter based on peers.
>
> Specific proposals? Reid?
>
> Larry
>
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