The right top level Admin section to show clustering related information

Hi devs,

I’m currently working on an admin entry point which shows various information about the cluster (the member id, channels, other members, etc.), when enabled. It might allow also change some of those stuff later from the UI, but I’m currently focusing on giving for information to the admin about the state of the clustering setup.

But I can’t quite figure out in which of the existing top level sections (Users & Rights, Extensions, etc.) it would fit.

Right now, all I can think of is introducing a new “Network” section. Sounds generic enough that other stuff would fit in it (for example, it would also work well for the Replication extensions admin page, or we could start showing more information about the database, etc.).

Of course, “Other” always works, but using that always kind of fill like a failure.

WDYT ?

Here is my +1 for Network.

Network seems fine. Other is indeed the only existing section that could fit.

If the pages of this section are mainly readonly, Monitoring might be an option too.

It’s mainly readonly now (since my current focus is to give information about the clustering), but I assume it won’t remain that way in the future.

+1 for Network then.

Do you know if a category with 0 pages is hidden in the Admin UI?

My understanding is that, except for a few hardcoded ones, what makes a category appear is that a page reference it, and optionally provide an icon for it (and a translation following naming admin.<category> control how it looks). Now, maybe the network one should be listed among the default ones. It would certainly be strange for its icon to be decided by the clustering related subsection. Anyway, I will check that when working on it, and if it does appear even when it’s empty, I guess it should be easy to fix.

I pushed a new “Network” admin category in master, so it will be part of XWiki 17.9.0.