Add ability to add brief notes and a method to display them when a machine is marked broken

[Jeff Lane ]

When a machine is marked broken, it would be very helpful to have a way to add a brief note (Twitter Sized) about WHY it's broken. And once the note is entered, it would be really neat if the note appeared in a popup when one moused over the status indicator.

Current Behaviour:

Machine is marked broken
Machine is moved to the "Broken" section of the display.
Mouseover on the Status field (which currently says Broken) opens a tooltip that also says "Broken"

Desired behaviour:
Machine is marked broken
User is given option to enter a brief 240(or so) character note of explanation
Machine is moved to the Broken section of the display
Mouseover on the status field (which says Broken) opens a tooltip that displays the user entered note, OR a default of "No Expanation Noted".

Desired API behaviour:
Queries that pull information about a node would include the Broken Note in the output so one could write a script to do API queries that answer "Give me a list and info on all nodes currently marked broken".

Additionally, this could allow automated tools (Jenkins, for instance) to mark machines as broken for some reason and inject a note like "Node did not deploy in expected time, Jenkins marked broken" or something.

[Blake Rouse (blake-rouse)]

This is support over the API, its just not exposed in the UI. Tagging appropriately!

[Lilyana Videnova (lilyanavidenova)]

Hi Jeff,

We have added this ability for all machines as of MAAS 2.6 - there is a column in the machine listing (under POOL) called NOTES where any note will be displayed.
Currently the notes can only be edited from the configuration tab of the machine.
The text of the notes can be searched for through the search bar on the listing.

We will take into consideration your idea about exposing the note upon marking a machine as broken.

Best,

Lilyana