Now able to configure Dashboard settings via the browser

You can disable the editing of settings in the browser by changing the value of disableSettingsEdit to 1 in the config.php file, in the "settings": { } stanza:

 "disableSettingsEdit": 1 

All settings configured via the browser page are stored in the {webroot}/settings.d/ directory as individual JSON text files named for the setting. Please ensure it exists and is writable by the web server user.

You may edit or delete any of the files in the {webroot}/settings.d/ directory. The setting will revert to the default if deleted. you may also choose to configure settings in this way as opposed to using the config.php file. Your choice.

Refactored all options and created centralized defaults

Now able to self-update the Dashboard software via the browser

There are four related settings, enableUpdates, tmpDir, downloadAccessKey and downloadSecretKey.

All four must be located in the config.php file, in the "settings": { } stanza. They are not accessible from the browser settings page.

You can disable the Dashboard self-update feature by changing the value of enableUpdates to 0 in config.php (default: 1):

 "enableUpdates": 1 

The tmpDir value is used to determine where downloaded software packages are saved to:

 "tmpDir":"/tmp" 

The other two (downloadAccessKey and downloadSecretKey) need to be obtained from Continuent support and typicially ship with the Dashboard installation package.

Now able to manually create and save cluster definitions in the conf.d subdirectory. Originally, a cluster could only be defined in the "clusters": { } stanza.

Now able to create and save cluster definitions to the conf.d subdirectory via a browser workflow

Added Display, Edit and Remove Cluster Definition menu choices for each cluster

Now able to automatically define cluster definitions in conf.d just by providing a hostname and port number in a browser workflow

Now able to automatically define cluster definitions in conf.d at Dashboard startup

There are three related settings, enableAutoConfiguration, managerPort and useHAProxy.

You can enable the Dashboard auto-configuration feature by changing the "Enable Auto-Configuration?" setting via the Dashboard settings page in the browser, or changing the value of enableAutoConfiguration to 1 in config.php (default: 0) or via the Dashboard settings page in the browser:

 "enableAutoConfiguration": 1 

The managerPort value is used to determine what port to communicate with the manager upon when performing auto-configuration and auto-define, as well as populating form fields in other places. Only change this if you have change the API listener port for the Manager as well.

 "managerPort": 8090 

The useHAProxy value is used to determine how to calculate ports when performing auto-configuration and auto-define.

Set the value to 1 to determine the manager port number automatically during various operations based on calulations using the base managerPort.

Set the value to 0 (default) to use the base managerPort with no attempt to auto-define the port.

You can enable the manager port auto-configuration feature by changing the "Using HA Proxy?" setting via the Dashboard settings page in the browser, or changing the value in the config.php file.

 "useHAProxy": 1 

Role name cleaning (Master is now Primary, and Slave is now Replica for nodes; Master is now Active, and Slave is now Passive for clusters)

Improve error handling for JSON responses to AJAX calls

Bug fixes in service alias support

Many footer improvements, including a link to check for an available Dashboard software update

Stop providing tabInfo during intitial page load, instead do it as AJAX call after load to save initial page load time

Now able to upload a Dashboard Diagnostic containing the JSON configuration to Continuent Support's protected AWS bucket. No other customer has access to this location, it is upload-only.

There are three related settings, customerName, uploadAccessKey and uploadSecretKey.

The customerName value is used to pre-populate the diagnostic upload form.

 "customerName":"your customer name here" 

The other two (uploadAccessKey and uploadSecretKey) need to be located in config.php

 "uploadAccessKey":"AKIAIWDZPQUE5YL4SBDQ", ] 
 "uploadSecretKey":"FQ0iVkTtH9biIZT2+IpwXwhqXvVwqMUqsZ4++N4K" ] 

New Expert mode disables both confirmation prompts when Deleting All Definitions

The default is 0 (disabled). Set enableExpertMode to 1 (one) to enable.

 "enableExpertMode": 1 

Use the enableDebug setting to get additional logging information and use the debug software versions when checking for an available update.

 "enableDebug": 1