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Feature #7122

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Add filters to various dashboard widgets

Added by Phillip Davis almost 8 years ago. Updated about 7 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Dashboard
Target version:
Start date:
01/14/2017
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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Description

Some dashboard widgets can end up with a lot of rows or columns of data to display on bigger systems. It would be nice to let the user choose which entries to display or not display. e.g. If there are lots of interfaces, then the network admin may want to display just the most important ones that they care about.

Widgets that could have a filter:
- Interfaces
- Interface Statistics
- Gateways
- Wake on LAN
- Dynamic DNS
- OpenVPN

Note: The Services Widget has a multi-select box for filtering. It has now changed to a list of checkboxes to select the items to be shown. The UI for other widgets with a filter selection will use the same scheme.


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traffic graph.png (41.2 KB) traffic graph.png Traffic Graph widget showing changes to interval, interfaces and display style James Snell, 03/16/2017 04:46 AM
Actions #1

Updated by Phillip Davis almost 8 years ago

The following are completed:
Services Widget UI changes: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3370
Interfaces Widget: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3374
Interface Statistics Widget: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3379
Gateways Widget: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/a5d486e9ad95d4e63603430c8aabf706fcc03363
Wake on LAN Widget: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3381

I will look at Dynamic DNS and OpenVPN in the next few days.

Usually people do not have many Dynamic DNS entries, but it will be easy to implement the filter, and handy for people who have quite a few or have some testing crud that they do not want to show on the "real day-to-day" dashboard.

My use case for OpenVPN is in a main office that has site-to-site servers for a number of other offices, plus road-warrior server. Some of the sub-offices are "important" and are expected to be online 24/7. Other small or home offices turn their gear off out of hours. So I don't care so much to see if the small offices are up/down on the dashboard. Thus filtering them from the displayed list saves dashboard space, and means that everything on the dashboard is expected to always be up/green.

Actions #2

Updated by Renato Botelho almost 8 years ago

  • % Done changed from 0 to 60
Actions #4

Updated by Phillip Davis almost 8 years ago

OpenVPN Widget filtering in PR https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3392

Actions #5

Updated by Kill Bill almost 8 years ago

@Phil: In case you are bored, could you do one for SMART Status? Did one originally for 2.2.x (https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/1841) and never got back to it. Still bothered by card readers junk. :D

Actions #7

Updated by Renato Botelho almost 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback
  • % Done changed from 60 to 100

All PRs merged, thanks!

Actions #8

Updated by Phillip Davis over 7 years ago

I think that is it. Unless anyone has another favorite, the dashboard widgets can be given a last test and this can be set to resolved.

Actions #9

Updated by John Murphy over 7 years ago

  1. Interfaces
  2. Interface Statistics
  3. Gateways
  4. System information
  5. Traffic Graphs
  6. SMART

I am able to show / hide various aspects of each of these widgets with no issues. WOL and Dynamic DNS are two that I do not use so couldn't completely test. Option appears to be there to hide aspects of these widgets, but the options are empty because I don't utilize these features on this firewall.

Like this feature a lot. It is nice to hide traffic graphs that I was never interested in monitoring.

Environment tested in: SG-2220 w/ 2.4.0.b.20170301.1546

Actions #10

Updated by Phillip Davis over 7 years ago

Note: The traffic graph widget already had a multi-selector box prior to this feature. That box never got changed to this "new" checkbox system for selecting the items to be displayed.
PR https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3602 refactors code in the traffic graphs widget and provides the new checkbox selection UI. It needs review...

Actions #11

Updated by James Snell over 7 years ago

Build 2.4.0.b.20170314.2306 showing a multi-select box for interfaces, was expecting checkboxes.

Cropped screenshot attached from MS Edge 38.14393.0.0 browser.

Actions #12

Updated by Kill Bill over 7 years ago

James Snell wrote:

Build 2.4.0.b.20170314.2306 showing a multi-select box for interfaces, was expecting checkboxes.

Cropped screenshot attached from MS Edge 38.14393.0.0 browser.

As you can see, the PR (https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3602) has not been merged yet, so not really sure what changes you expected (nor how does it matter exactly).

Actions #13

Updated by Phillip Davis over 7 years ago

Once the PR has been reviewed (and hopefully merged) the new checkbox format (like other widgets) will be available. There seems to have been a stop in merging, or even reviewing community PRs the last few weeks.

Actions #14

Updated by Phillip Davis over 7 years ago

With the delay in reviewing/merging community-contributed PRs, I have split PR 3602 up into the various parts that are logically separate along the way to getting the Traffic Graphs widget to work and be coded similar to the other widgets:

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3654 Traffic Graphs Widget whitespace
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3655 Traffic graph widget filter checkboxes
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3656 Traffic Graphs Widget handle no items selected for display

The above gets the Traffic Graphs widget code and functionality to match the other widgets.

Then:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3657 Redmine 7318 None button for Traffic Graphs Widget filter

implements the "None" button functionality proposed in Redmine 7318, which is a separate issue.

Hopefully there will be some movement in the community code review process soon.

Actions #15

Updated by Kill Bill over 7 years ago

Phillip Davis wrote:

With the delay in reviewing/merging community-contributed PRs, I have split PR 3602 up into the various parts that are logically separate along the way to getting the Traffic Graphs widget to work and be coded similar to the other widgets:
Hopefully there will be some movement in the community code review process soon.

Not really sure what's up, but I'm pretty much giving up ATM. I've lost track of things (having 31 open PRs right now for pfSense repo alone) and chances are high the PRs will conflict with each other.

Actions #16

Updated by James Snell over 7 years ago

Looks like the PR went in about 48hours after the last note.

Tested using build 2.4.0.b.20170412.1256

Checked the following widgets
- Interfaces
- Interface Statistics
- Gateways
- System information
- Traffic Graphs
- SMART Status

All have checkboxes for content selection in the widget settings.

Looks like this one can be closed. Thanks!

Actions #17

Updated by Jim Pingle about 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Resolved

All the filters I've tried work well. Looks good from here. Closing.

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