Resource Management

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This application lets administrator users to manage resources providing the basic functionalities to access and modify data information. The interface has 5 main panels:

  • Resource Navigation
  • Resource List
  • Profiles
  • Related Resources
  • Main Panel


Resource Navigation

This section allows browsing of resources, accessing main resources categories and sub categories. Sub categories are retrieved dynamically using these resource properties:

Resources

|----Collection
|     |----User / System
|
|----gCube Hosting Node
|     |----Site
|
|----Generic Resource
|     |----Secondary Type
| 
|----Metadata Collection
|     |----Schema Name
|
|----Software
|     |----Service Class
|
|----Running Instance
      |----Service Class

WSResources

|----Service Class
      |----Service Name

A click on a resource category causes the portlet to show the list of available resources of that category for the current scope in the Resource List panel.


Resource List

This section provides a list of accessible resources of the specified category (see Resource Navigation) with customable sorting and displaying options. Right-clicking on selected resource(s) users can access to a contextual menu which provides different operations depending on the selected category. Available operations are :

  • Retrieve Profile  : shows the selected resource(s) profile(s) in the Profiles panel;
  • Find Related Resources : shows the selected resource(s) related information in the Related Resource panel;
  • Add To Scope  : shows the form which lets users to add selected resource(s) to an accessible scope;
  • Remove From Scope  : removes the selected resource(s) from the current scope;
  • Edit  : shows the form which lets users to edit details of a specified resource;
  • New  : shows the form which lets users to create a new resource of the selected category;
  • Delete  : deletes the selected resource(s) from the Information System;
  • Ban  : shows the form which lets users to create custom filters to ban resources;
  • Shut Down  : shows the form which lets users to shut down the specified gCube Hosting Node(s);
  • Deploy  : shows the form which lets users to deploy specified Software(s) to one or more gCube Hosting Nodes;


Related Resources

This panel shows related information about one or more specified resources. Depending on the category of the resource, the kind of information displayed is different :

  • Collection  : list of information about related Metadata Collections;
  • gCube Hosting Node  : list of information about all Running Instances running in the specified node;
  • Generic Resource  : not available;
  • Metadata Collection  :