New Flux Operations Console, Usability Dramatically Better

A new implementation of the Flux Operations Console is in development for Flux 7.10. The Operations Console is a web application for IT operations staff to monitor, view, control, and edit jobs, workflows, and file transfers.

The simple wireframe below shows a rough preview.

Overall, the new Operations Console provides the most important information about a running Flux cluster on the homepage in a dashboard layout, with updates displayed in the browser in real time.

The status of Flux engines and agents are shown in a compacted view at the top. This view lets you see engine and agent health at a glance without taking up too much screen real estate. To control engines and agents or to view details, a popup window appears on a mouse click.

The list of jobs is shown below the engine and agent status bars and uses most of the browser window. Each row shows:

• the job name
• the predicted time for when the current job run will finish
• if the job run is taking longer than predicted, the amount of “overtime”
• the action (task) that is executing for that job. Due to splits, sometimes there are a multiple actions running simultaneously per job.
• the job status (firing, waiting, triggering, etc)
• the engine where the job is running
• the last message generated by the job

If the job is uploading or downloading a file, the File Transfer Monitor displays the usual file transfer statistics and progress bar, including the source host, destination host, and file transfer protocol used.