custom view of resources

[raylite3]

Hello, is it possible to build a custom view of my resources that displays their availability in a single view ? Will it be a custom portlet and how do I go about creating something like that?

I realize I can use the mashup to display a page I host somewhere else. Is this the recommended approach?

Thanks.

[tsegismont]

It could be a custom portlet, but the recommended way is to serve a page:

• using the RHQ REST API
• hosted on a different server (could be just a static web server if you use only HTML/JS/CSS)

Feel free to ask more questions on the forum if you need help with the REST API.

Regards,

Thomas

[jayshaughnessy]

Hi, just out of curiosity, what sort of view are you looking for?  We have availability displayed in lots of places so I was wondering what your desired view would be?  Are you talking about a view that shows the availability history (the chart) for a lot of resources?

[pathduck]

I would love to have this possibility too. At the moment I use the All Groups view to have a quick way of telling status of all resources. I've been thinking of looking at custom portlets but not even sure what I want is possible technically.

Having the possibility to build a kind of "Boss View" would be great, like choosing what resources to show and having it fill a panel which could then be displayed full-screen on a monitor.

We have a custom page in Tivoli with icons for services and servers and I'd like something like that to be possible with RHQ as well.

However RHQ sees resources a bit differently, there is no clear 'hierarchy' for alerts so not sure how you'd make them propagate up through the logical levels.

I guess Redhat probably has something like it but probably in another product.

[raylite3]

Right, I am looking for this kind of view of all my resources. I want to provide descriptions, icons, etc., to represent the servers/services.

So it looks like building a new app using the REST API might be the way to go.

[genman]

I used the RHQ CLI to build static pages. I used the underscore library for JavaScript with HTML templates to do it. http://underscorejs.org/

REST is better, of course, if you want to make interactive or real-time pages.