Hyrax Admin Interface

This is a place to start discussing peoples desires/needs for a Hyrax Administrators Interface (HAI).

Background

Members of the Hyrax users community are developing robust, highly available data services in operational settings, and have asked for an administrators interface that will allow them to monitor, control, reconfigure, and debug the Hyrax frontend and backend servers from an operator's console. This page is the starting point for organizing the design work for the Hyrax Administrators Interface (HAI).

Definitions

Administrator

The administrator is the human that operates the HAI.

User

The user is a human that uses client software such as Kepler, Matlab OPeNDAP Ocean Toolbox, a web browser, and others to make requests (HTTP, SOAP, etc.) of the Hyrax server.

Operator Console

The 24x7 operators console to monitor and control the data services as well as the user data requests.

Administrator Console

The system administrators console to monitor, control, reconfigure, and debug the Hyrax frontend and backend servers.

Use Cases

The administrator uses the HAI to:

1. Turn on/off OLFS debugging and view/save(/stream?) the output.
2. Turn on/off BES debugging and view/save(/stream?) the output.
3. Compare Server output with debugging associated with the request.
4. View list of OLFS and BES's services
5. Start/stop OLFS and BES's services
6. Start/stop OLFS and BES logging
7. View OLFS and BES logs.
8. Set OLFS and BES logging output levels.
9. OLFS and BES service status and heartbeat signal
10. View OLFS and BES configuration settings
11. Modify OLFS and BES service configuration settings and update
12. Modify OLFS and BES data catalog configuration settings and update
13. View data requests, job status, and statistics
14. Manage user and service access rights, quotas, thresholds, and priorities
15. Modify service notification features and thresholds.

Design

Required features

1. Secure (SSL?) login and sessions.
2. Log viewing.
3. control and view debugging information.
4. User access management? What does that look like?