Introducing EAS Cluster Management
and New Convenience
in the Lutris Management Console

The best part of working on the second version of a software product is that you get to tune it, incorporate feedback from the first version and add those features that you wished you'd had time for with version 1.0. So, this article is about the improvements made to LMC to make it more effective and comprehensive in its network awareness as well as simply make it a smoother experience in general.

In general, there are three categories of improvements, ranging from start-up conveniences to more profound network monitoring and management.

  • New convenience server preferences
  • Streamlined login/connection
  • Cluster view and management

Server preferences

Menu select "Edit | Preferences..." and open the Server tab. Click on the image to the right to see a large version. There are a number of handy preferences.

  • Automatically discover servers when LMC starts (default)
  • Automatically start local server when LMC starts
  • Automatically stop local server when LMC stops
  • Specify a default username/password that populates the login dialog
  • Indicate your preference for long or short host names.
  • Automatically login to local server using specified username/password
  • Automatically open a log channel view into the EAS log after login

You can now undeploy multiple components at a time by <ctrl><click> to select multiple components. Then press the "Undeploy" button.

Cluster View

There is an new Cluster view capability that gives you the ability to operate on multiple servers at one time by either selecting the cluster you are in or by <ctrl><click>ing to select multiple servers. You can "Refresh the MBean tree for all" or "Login to all", "Logoff from all", and "Shutdown all". During Login, a login dialog prompts for a username and password that are used to attempt to login to all selected servers.

Other Features and Behaviors

Windows Desktop Interaction

On Windows, you can drag and drop from the desktop/folder deployable objects. Try selecting multiple apps and drop them on a selected cluster/hosts and they will all get deployed to all servers in the cluster or all servers selected.

MBeans are no longer automatically fetched when you login to a server.

This enables you to login and open EAS log views on multiple servers without having to fetch all of their MBeans (time/resource saver). Using the new server preference, and the ability to operate on multiple servers, you can login into multiple servers and have their EAS log view automatically opened.

MBean Convenience

Save frequently used MBeans in the Toolbox. Double clicking on them will display a login dialog if necessary and open the MBean without having to fetch all the MBeans in the tree. The server that the MBean is associated with must be discovered before attempting to open the MBean.

Custom Logs of Cluster servers

The image to the right shows one of the extensive logging features, making it possible to define and then monitor custom logs the local or remote EAS server or servers.