[UI] maas should allow comment on why a system is broken

[Scott Moser]

we just had a situation where a collegue of mine asked "Why is system X in BROKEN". I did not know, as another team member had put it in.

It would be nice if maas did 2 things:
a.) stored the user who did this
this would allow me to ask the user who did, why it was in BROKEN
b.) stored a text field as "why".
this would allow us or the user to input a external tracking id or comments as to what was wrong.

[Jason Hobbs (jason-hobbs)]

This is a need we've come across in OIL, where we have multiple people marking nodes as 'Broken'.

[Koaps (koaps)]

I would extend this to allow comments in general for a machine, it would be nice to be able to note the asset tags for the machine without having to add a tag, or other info like deployment date

[Rod Smith (rodsmith)]

I'd like to second Koaps' comment; this feature could be useful beyond broken systems -- to note system-specific peculiarities, the role it's playing in a network, etc.

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

I believe this is already supported in the backend, but would need UI
integration! Patches welcome!

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:19 PM Rod Smith <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'd like to second Koaps' comment; this feature could be useful beyond
> broken systems -- to note system-specific peculiarities, the role it's
> playing in a network, etc.
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Andres Rodriguez (RoAkSoAx)
Ubuntu Server Developer
MSc. Telecom & Networking
Systems Engineer

[Lilyana Videnova (lilyanavidenova)]

As of 2.6 any admin can add a note to a machine in the UI - the notes are displayed in the listing and can be edited in the configuration pane of each machine.

We are working on surfacing the note field when a machine is specifically marked broken.