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> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Derek Ross
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> Having had a look at it, the interface implies you can put all the
> services in a site into downtime by selecting them all in one list.
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I don't think that's quite equivalent, for two reasons:
- A whole site being down is quite likely to be something
major like an air-con or power failure; it's nice to have
a simple 'panic' button for those occasions that marks the
whole thing as down with no messing about, and no chance of
missing services out in error.
- The implication for anyone reading the entry of 'this service
is down, and so is this one and this one too' is rather different
from the impression that one gets from 'the whole site is down'.
We shouldn't be making things harder to use and less clear unless
there's a compelling advantage to outweigh that. Making the user
adapt to the user interface is bad UI design.
Ewan
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