Trying to introspect available nodes give unclear error output

Bug #1754640 reported by Steven Hardy
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tripleo
Won't Fix
Medium
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Bug Description

In the UI (and I guess CLI given that we use the same workflows?) any attempt to introspect available nodes gives lots of errors from the mistral action about nodes being in the wrong state.

While this is correct, there should be a clearer message - we get multiple error dialogs from the UI vs one saying "please move the node to manageable state", or perhaps just prompting to ask if you want to move the node to that state.

For new users I can imagine this being confusing, particularly since the manageable/available/introspect/provide terminology may not be clear to those not familiar with Ironic, so ensuring clear error output would help I think.

Tags: ui workflows
Steven Hardy (shardy)
Changed in tripleo:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → rocky-1
tags: added: ui workflows
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milestone: rocky-1 → rocky-2
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milestone: rocky-2 → rocky-3
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milestone: rocky-3 → rocky-rc1
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milestone: rocky-rc1 → stein-1
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milestone: stein-1 → stein-2
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milestone: stein-2 → stein-3
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milestone: stein-3 → train-1
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milestone: train-1 → train-2
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milestone: train-2 → train-3
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Alex Schultz (alex-schultz) wrote :

UI has been deprecated

Changed in tripleo:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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