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| <h1 class="BlueBack">Send Sugestions to the CSM Development Team</h1>
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| 
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| <p>Suggestions, bug reports, bug fixes, etc., are always welcome.  Please post them to the <A href="doc.cgi?book=web§ion=forum" target="_parent">CSM forum</A>.  Contributions are also welcome, such as minor new features, better
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| images, or even whole new pages.  See the <a
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| href="CSMLinuxGUIWhitepaper.html#developing">developer section of
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| the CSM Linux GUI white paper</a> for more info.  Thanks!</p>
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| 
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| <h3>Todo List</h3>
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| 
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| <p>The following items are already on our todo list, in
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| approximately priority order:</p>
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| 
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| <ul>
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|   <li>When the license expires, have to give a good msg from the main page</li>
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|   <li>Finish modifying the following pages with the More... links: definenode,
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|   definehwdev, dev properties, condition properties, response properties.</li>
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|   <li>Change the xcsm-utils resources so they can also be defined in the xcsm
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|   dir</li>
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|   <li>Add LastEvent to the Condition Attributes page, for releases in which it
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|   is supported</li>
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|   <li>Have the task pane save the current task in the cookie and have each page set the current task</li>
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|   <li>Add list of CSM env vars to Tips section of CSM Config page.</li>
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|   <li>Add hw ctrl info to the Add Nodes page</li>
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|   <li>Finish rack layout of partitioned pSeries systems</li>
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|   <li>Add -c option (adapter config) to updatenode page.  Also run cfmupdatenode
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|   if only -F specified and smsupdatenode if only -S specified.</li>
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|   <li>Monitoring:
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|   <ul>
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|     <li>Add to Sensor page:
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|     <ul>
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|       <li>create a mkresources file to facilitate creating/modifying sensors on nodes</li>
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|       <li>force the execution of a sensor immediately</li>
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|     </ul>
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|     </li>
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|     <li>Provide an Operator monitoring mode (log in as non-root user and get simpler
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|     monitoring page)</li>
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|     <li>Add option to monitor in node group view and be able to drill down to the
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|     problem node</li>
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|     <li>Make drill down on the problem more obvious</li>
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|     <li>Add additional conditions/sensors for a more complete "Health Monitoring"</li>
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|   </ul>
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|   </li>
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|   <li>Be able to log in as non-root id and su to root (exploit webmin acls)</li>
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|   <li>Display the 1st time user/set up cluster wizard page link automatically
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|   if no nodes are defined.</li>
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|   <li>Scalabilty improvements: <ul>
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|             <li>When a large # of nodes are displayed on the main
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|                 page, only get the 1st 50.</li>
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|   </ul>
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|   </li>
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|   <li>Fix running perfmondata -h in Tips section of perfmon page, and add it
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|   to xcsm/utils</li>
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|   <li>Get gnuplot (and plotutils on SLES) installed
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|         automatically.</li>
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|   <li>Add to the Diagnose MS page to restart the HWCTRLRM with
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|         tracing on or off: <ul>
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|             <li>stopsrc -s IBM.HWCTRLRM</li>
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|             <li>If IBM.HWCTRLRM does not stop within a minute,
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|                 "ps -ef | grep HW" and kill any
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|                 processes.</li>
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|             <li>Delete the contents of /var/log/csm</li>
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|             <li>startsrc -s IBM.HWCTRLRM
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|                 -eHC_JAVA_VERBOSE=/tmp/jni.txt</li>
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|             <li>send the trace files in /var/log/csm and
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|                 /tmp/jni.txt</li>
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|         </ul>
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|     </li>
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|   <li>Add some items from csmsnap design to Diagnose MS page</li>
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|   <li>Clean up code for HW Ctrl page</li>
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|   <li>Add BIOS/firmware flashing page</li>
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|   <li>Debug or improve opening a console for a node</li>
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|   <li>Install page: <ul>
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|             <li>Set up page should use InstallTemplate attribute
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|                 as default for the template file</li>
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|             <li>Implement remaining buttons:  Test Console,
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|                 Copy Distros, Run Install Probe.</li>
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|     <li>Add nodegrp option to page and add a link to this page on the task list.</li>
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|     <li>Update monitoring of install progress</li>
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|     <li>Add list & manipulation of install images (sets of distro rpms) that
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|     are in /csminstall</li>
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|   </ul>
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|     </li>
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|   <li>Add copycsmpkgs to Updatenode page.</li>
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|   <li>Make the perf mon page extensible so users can add their
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|         own conditions </li>
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|     <li>Make the main page extensible so users can add their own
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|         attributes to be shown in the node table. </li>
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|   <li>Make the main page monitor the node Status and update it</li>
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|   <li>Network management:
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|   <ul>
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|     <li>Query status, link speed, throughput of all network adapters on a node</li>
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|   </ul>
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|   </li>
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|   <li>Implement a summary page</li>
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|     <li>Software Maintenance page:  Allow distro CDs to be
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|         made available as ISOs and mounted</li>
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|   <li>Modify the web interface so it can start up before CSM is
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|         installed, so it can be used to install CSM on the mgmt
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|         svr.</li>
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|   <li>Have this interface launched from the new CSM LWC console and from IBM
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|   Director.</li>
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| </ul>
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| 
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| <h3>Known Defects and Limitations</h3>
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| 
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| <ul>
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|   <li>Perfmon graph page doesn't download gnuplot for SuSE
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|         correctly.</li>
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|   <li>When you use the browser's Back button to return to the
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|         main page, the image checkboxes of the rack nodes are not
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|         checked.</li>
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| </ul>
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| 
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| <p>The <b>Change Log</b> describing recent enhancements is in the
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| <a href="README">README file</a>.</p>
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