When running a JPPF grid on the Rackspace cloud, it is sometimes necessary to perform actions on the cloud server control panel (e.g., shutdown or reboot a server) based on indications available from JPPF program logs.

On the monitoring GUI, one can click on a node and call up its information, which will include the network configuration. For example, if I want to take action on a node I can gather its information and get

ipv4.addresses = jppf-node-4c0|10.208.200.111 127.0.0.1|127.0.0.1

However, this doesn't work for nodes which are inaccessible (usually the ones I need to do something on!)

Unfortunately, the Rackspace control panel only offers a listing by server name, with a corresponding display of Public IP address, and my network is connected on the private IP address. It requires clicking on the server and waiting for the API response to obtain the corresponding private IP. While finding a "dead" node by process of elimination is reasonable for a very small grid, it's completely impractical for a larger grid.

Presently the GUI displays nodes by their IP address (based on (JPPFManagementInfo info).getHost() method) which is also the second half of the ipv4.addresses property (10.208.200.111 in the example above). It would be extremely helpful to have a toggle option to display nodes by the first hostname in the ipv4.address property. (jppf-node-4c0 in the example above, which could be (JPPFManagementInfo info).getSystemInfo().getNetwork().getString("ipv4.addresses"), truncated to the index of the first | character.

This is no doubt a Milestone 4.3 (or 5.0) rather than 4.2.4 but that option's not available in the dropdown.