Speakers
Mr
Enrico Fattibene
(INFN-CNAF, Bologna, Italy)Mr
Giuseppe Misurelli
(INFN-CNAF, Bologna, Italy)
Description
A monitoring tool for complex Grid systems can gather a huge amount of information
that have to be presented to the users in the most comprehensive way. Moreover
different types of consumers could be interested in inspecting and analyzing
different subsets of data. The main goal in designing a Web interface for the
presentation of monitoring information is to organize the huge amount of data in a
simple, user-friendly and usable structure. One more problem is to consider different
approaches, skills and interests that all the possible categories of users have in
looking for the desired information.
Starting from the information architecture guidelines for the Web, it is possible to
design Web interfaces towards a better user experience and to deal with an advanced
user interaction by exploiting the most recent Web standards.
In this paper, we present a number of principles for the design of Web interface for
monitoring tools that provide a wider, richer range of possibilities for what
concerns the user interaction. These principles are based on an extensive review of
the current literature in Web design, on the experience with the development of the
GridICE monitoring tool and on an analysis of the design choices of other monitoring
systems. The described principles can drive the evolution of the Web interface of
Grid monitoring tools.
Authors
Mr
Antonio Pierro
(INFN, Bari, Italy)
Mrs
Cristina Aiftimiei
(INFN, Padova, Italy, on leave from NIPNE-HH, Romania)
Mr
Enrico Fattibene
(INFN-CNAF, Bologna, Italy)
Mr
Giacinto Donvito
(INFN, Bari, Italy)
Prof.
Giorgio Pietro Maggi
(INFN, Bari also affiliated to Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Mr
Giuseppe Misurelli
(INFN-CNAF, Bologna, Italy)
Mr
Guido Cuscela
(INFN, Bari, Italy)
Dr
Sergio Andreozzi
(INFN-CNAF, Bologna, Italy)
Mr
Sergio Fantinel
(INFN, Padova also affiliated to INFN-LNL, Padova Italy)
Mr
Stefano Dal Pra
(INFN, Padova, Italy)
Dr
Vihang Dudhalkar
(INFN, Bari also affiliated to Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
