Now that we are starting to have beamlines with mix of traditional and K8S IOCS, we need a way for scientists to monitor, start and stop the K8S ones as they don't show on the HW status screen and don't have a procServControl screen.
Rather than try to shoehorn something on to the IOC list on HW Status we propose to have a TUI mode for the ec command. We could then have a single button on the HW status screen labelled Kubernetes IOCs which launches a terminal and executes:
source environment.sh
ec monitor
This would ask for credentials if the user's K8S token has expired or just run if they have a current token. The ec monitor command would launch a TUI with these features:
scroll-able list of all K8S IOCs in the cluster including stopped ones
status of each IOC shown
buttons next to the IOC for stop/start/restart/logs
logs will bring you to a new scroll-able log of both current and previous logs
exiting logs returns you to monitor mode
This could make a great interim tool for IOC management - could even do the job indefinitely. It is also relatively easy to do as everything needed is already implemented in ec and this is just a TUI over the same functionality. No additional credential management etc. required.
I've discussed this with @OCopping and he is interested in looking into it - assigning to him.
Also mentioned it to Gareth and he was in favour of something like this rather than the existing pure command line tool.
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Now that we are starting to have beamlines with mix of traditional and K8S IOCS, we need a way for scientists to monitor, start and stop the K8S ones as they don't show on the HW status screen and don't have a procServControl screen.
Rather than try to shoehorn something on to the IOC list on HW Status we propose to have a TUI mode for the
eccommand. We could then have a single button on the HW status screen labelledKubernetes IOCswhich launches a terminal and executes:This would ask for credentials if the user's K8S token has expired or just run if they have a current token. The
ec monitorcommand would launch a TUI with these features:This could make a great interim tool for IOC management - could even do the job indefinitely. It is also relatively easy to do as everything needed is already implemented in
ecand this is just a TUI over the same functionality. No additional credential management etc. required.I've discussed this with @OCopping and he is interested in looking into it - assigning to him. Also mentioned it to Gareth and he was in favour of something like this rather than the existing pure command line tool.