Ticket #559 (closed defect: fixed)
Cluster machines should call for help
Reported by: | jdreed | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | low | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
Upstream bug: |
Description
A cluster machine that is sad (i.e. because it downgraded itself to -workstation) should know enough to call for help.
A possible method is that the installer drops an unpackaged initscript somewhere that, if debathena-cluster is not installed, displays a single X window that says "This workstation is temporarily out of service, please contact hotline@…".
The window could also do more awesome things,like prompt the user to click a button to hackboot into PXE and reinstall, or something else.
But at the very least, it should advertise its brokenness.
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So, with new-gdm, we could probably do something with debathena-branding. Specifically, if it's running debathena-workstation, but has Hesiod CLUSTER=cluster, then something is horribly broken and it should scream loudly.
While Nagios will partially do what we want (and in fact already does, I believe), we may want to actually prevent users from using broken machines or inform them to go elsewhere.