It would be nice to have an easier way to see a node's status (ready vs deployed vs whatever)

[Jeff Lane ]

Specifically, when you're looking at nodes en masse on MAAS, looking through pages of 50 nodes each, the difference between "Deploying" and "Deployed" is difficult to see at a glance. The power status is easy, there are colored dots.

Check out the screen shot attached to this bug. Earlier I was skimming a list of 50 nodes for 1 single node in "deploying" state... it took me forever to figure out which one it was because it's so hard for me to see that one 'Deploying' amidst a field of 'Deployed's.

I don't know if colored balls are the answer, or mabye the status text color could change.. something tells me that a colored ball would look better.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Heh, there are some awesome node names in there. innocent-yak made me think of Gavin :)

I have a few ideas for this:
 1. Does it help if you sort the status column?
 2. I am about to add a new search box that does proper searching. Would it help if it matched status text?
 3. Ask Carla! :)

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

I think this is resolved by UI improvements in 1.8... filtering based on status is perfect!