bikeman868/urchin

A rules based centralized enterprise configuration management solution for .Net

urchin's Issues

When I register with '/' no notifications are received

Registering with slash ('/') i.e. to root node doesn't work and notifications aren't received. This is maybe by design but it's a bit misleading as I was going through unit tests and noticed one test which was about solving similar (but not the same as I later found out) problem.

Version names should be displayed instead of numbers

In the various confirmation dialogs it indicates the version number, but this would be much more useful if it was the version name instead.

Also, when configuring the version to use for an environment you have to type in a version number, this should be a drop-down box of versions that includes the version name.

Unable to delete datacenter rules

Delete a datacenter and it disappears from the list, but the rule for it remains with a blank name only visible using Show All Rules

Deleting a rule for a datacenter says it succeeds but the rule is still there after a refresh. Whether the datacenter still exists or not seems irrelevant.

Possibly related to issue #2?

Creating a new version can copy from an older version

When a new version id created it should be a copy of the most recent version, but it can sometimes copy an older version instead. It maybe happens if you create multiple new versions without restarting the server.

Can not delete variables in UI

In the Urchin UI if you delete a variable from a rule and save the changes, then refresh the browser the variable is not deleted.

String blocks returned with lower case names

If requesting a configuration path to be returned as a string the names are returned in all lower case. This is a problem for using them in JavaScript code. Would expect the original case. Problem appears to be at line 290 of ConfigurationStore.cs:

                        var childName = property.Name.ToLower();
                        Children.Add(childName, new ConfigNode(childName, property.Value));

Enum values from configuration JSON can't be properly retrieved using the Get<T>() method

When I call ConfigurationSource's Get method with T being an enum exception is thrown with message Invalid cast from 'System.String' to 'Urchin.Client.Tests.ConfigurationStoreTests+SomeEnum'

Overwriting changes from other users

If I leave the Urchin UI open in my browser it does not refresh to show changes made by other users. In this case if I change something and save it then I will overwrite any other changes that were made by someone else.

The workaround for this is to always refresh the browser window before making changes. Urchin refreshes the page in a fraction of a second so this is a small inconvenience.

Renaming a datacenter breaks the configuration

If you change the name of a datacenter this change is not propagated to the datacenter rules or the general configuration rules which breaks the configuration of all software in that datacenter.

The workaround is to rename the datacenter like this:

1. Filter rules by datacenter and modify all of the rules to use the new datacenter name.
2. In the datacenter page update all of the rules for the datacenter to use the new name.
3. Only after completing steps 1 and 2 can you rename the datacenter itself.