Owner edits Resource configuration

Preconditions

The user is logged into INTERSECT with the owner role assigned and currently viewing the detailed view of a resource seen in Fig. 79.

Postconditions

The owner can see a list of the title and date/time of an experiment along with the requestor. The owner can also see who is supporting it and has the ability to temporarily or permanently remove the resource.

Methodologies

  • edit configuration for an approved resource

  • Owner manages a single resource from the detailed view about this Resource, already on INTERSECT

    • Owner views (succinct listing of) Campaigns - past, present, and scheduled that will use this Resource

      • Short title

      • Date and time

      • Requestor

      • Operator / Moderator who was / is / will be supporting this Campaign

      • Overall status color -

        • Scheduled Campaigns could respect the earlier defined options

        • Active Campaigns could be marked as “OK” or “green”

        • Past Campaigns -

          • Cancelled / aborted by user - orange?

          • Successful - Green

          • Error - red

      • Clicking on one would point to the Detailed view of the Campaign

    • Owner removes resource from INTERSECT from the listing of managed resources

      • Temporarily

        • Resource is still visible in the catalog of resources but is marked as unavailable

          • Perhaps the resource is moved lower in the search results / catalog listing with a greyed out title and thumbnail

      • Permanently

        • Resource is removed from INTERSECT in a permanent way

      • Regardless:

        • Dashboard asks the Owner if they are sure they want to do this

        • Dashboard asks Owner the reason for removing the Resource with common options such as “routine maintenance”, “major upgrades”, “Faulty / broken”, and “Other”.

        • INTERSECT adds this as an event to the Resource if the resource is

        • Dashboard will also notify the Owner that this is going to affect some upcoming Campaigns. Owner is asked to take actions to keep Campaigns moving smoothly. Owner can take a case-by-case approach or a bulk approach (same decision for all campaigns)

          • Owner can move the Campaigns to use an alternate resource if a reasonable substitute is available.

            • INTERSECT dashboard adds to the log of the specific campaign that the resource has been swapped.

            • User is notified via email

            • User can choose to accept the change, cancel the Campaign, or modify the Campaign configuration as they see fit.

          • If no substitutes are available:

            • INTERSECT marks the campaign with an error “unable to move forward”

            • User is notified via email

        • INTERSECT emails all “regular” / past Users of this Resource, who do not have a scheduled Campaign using this Resource, that:

          • the Resource has been taken down

          • Alternate solution available / not available

    • Owner monitors this Resource using tables and/or graphs:

      • In most cases - Simple line / bar graph with counts (number of Campaigns) on the y-axis and time on the x-axis. Alternatively, simpler histogram / counts might be plenty. If neither are possible, tables would do.

        Perhaps the same table that was presented outside the per-Resource view could be filtered to only show rows specific to this Resource. This is just a convenience for the Owner.

      • Operational

        • Up-time (time that the Resource was available for use)

          • As a percentage per time period. E.g. - 96% in February 2022.

          • All duration that the Resource is marked as “Down” is counted

          • Number of internal failures/<time> where failures

          • Are they meeting INTERSECT’s SLA requirements? - this could be a checklist to make it easier on the Owner to track

      • Technical

        • Mean performance (multiple parameters) as relevant for this Resource (doesn’t matter for visualization widgets for example)

          • E.g. Failure reason popularity

      • Scientific:

        • Capability / Mode popularity - simple bar graph

        • Campaign template popularity

      • Others?

An example interface is depicted in Fig. 94.

An example interface

Fig. 94 Options are given to temporarily or permanently remove the resource.