# CM Dashboard - Infrastructure Monitoring TUI ## Overview A high-performance Rust-based TUI dashboard for monitoring CMTEC infrastructure. Built to replace Glance with a custom solution tailored for our specific monitoring needs and ZMQ-based metric collection. ## Implementation Strategy ### Current Implementation Status **System Panel Enhancement - COMPLETED** ✅ All system panel features successfully implemented: - ✅ **NixOS Collector**: Created collector for version and active users - ✅ **System Widget**: Unified widget combining NixOS, CPU, RAM, and Storage - ✅ **Build Display**: Shows NixOS build information without codename - ✅ **Active Users**: Displays currently logged in users - ✅ **Tmpfs Monitoring**: Added /tmp usage to RAM section - ✅ **Agent Deployment**: NixOS collector working in production **Keyboard Navigation and Service Management - COMPLETED** ✅ All keyboard navigation and service selection features successfully implemented: - ✅ **Panel Navigation**: Shift+Tab cycles through visible panels only (System → Services → Backup) - ✅ **Service Selection**: Up/Down arrows navigate through parent services with visual cursor - ✅ **Focus Management**: Selection highlighting only visible when Services panel focused - ✅ **Status Preservation**: Service health colors maintained during selection (green/red icons) - ✅ **Smart Panel Switching**: Only cycles through panels with data (backup panel conditional) - ✅ **Scroll Support**: All panels support content scrolling with proper overflow indicators **Current Status - October 23, 2025:** - All keyboard navigation features working correctly ✅ - Service selection cursor implemented with focus-aware highlighting ✅ - Panel scrolling fixed for System, Services, and Backup panels ✅ - Build display working: "Build: 25.05.20251004.3bcc93c" ✅ **Layout Achieved:** ``` NixOS: Build: 25.05.20251004.3bcc93c # Target (currently shows "unknown") Active users: cm, simon CPU: ● Load: 0.02 0.31 0.86 • 3000MHz RAM: ● Usage: 33% 2.6GB/7.6GB ● /tmp: 0% 0B/2.0GB Storage: ● root (Single): ├─ ● nvme0n1 W: 1% └─ ● 18% 167.4GB/928.2GB ``` **Current Status - October 23, 2025:** - System panel layout fully implemented with blue tree symbols ✅ - Backup panel layout restructured per specification ✅ - Tree symbols now use consistent blue theming across all panels ✅ - Overflow handling restored for all widgets ("... and X more") ✅ - Agent hash display working correctly ✅ ### Current Keyboard Navigation Implementation **Navigation Controls:** - **Tab**: Switch between hosts (cmbox, srv01, srv02, steambox, etc.) - **Shift+Tab**: Cycle through visible panels (System → Services → Backup → System) - **Up/Down (System/Backup)**: Scroll through panel content - **Up/Down (Services)**: Move service selection cursor between parent services - **q**: Quit dashboard **Panel-Specific Features:** - **System Panel**: Scrollable content with CPU, RAM, Storage details - **Services Panel**: Service selection cursor for parent services only (docker, nginx, postgresql, etc.) - **Backup Panel**: Scrollable repository list with proper overflow handling **Visual Feedback:** - **Focused Panel**: Blue border and title highlighting - **Service Selection**: Blue background with preserved status icon colors (green ● for active, red ● for failed) - **Focus-Aware Selection**: Selection highlighting only visible when Services panel focused - **Dynamic Statusbar**: Context-aware shortcuts based on focused panel ### Future Priorities **Service Management Implementation:** - Implement actual service control actions (start/stop/restart) - Connect service selection cursor to ZMQ command execution - Add confirmation dialogs for service actions - Implement remote nixos rebuild commands **Enhanced Navigation:** - Add Page Up/Down for faster scrolling through long service lists - Implement search/filter functionality for services - Add jump-to-service shortcuts (first letter navigation) **Advanced Features:** - Service dependency visualization - Historical service status tracking - Backup trigger functionality with progress indication ## Core Architecture Principles - CRITICAL ### Individual Metrics Philosophy **NEW ARCHITECTURE**: Agent collects individual metrics, dashboard composes widgets from those metrics. ### Maintenance Mode **Purpose:** - Suppress email notifications during planned maintenance or backups - Prevents false alerts when services are intentionally stopped **Implementation:** - Agent checks for `/tmp/cm-maintenance` file before sending notifications - File presence suppresses all email notifications while continuing monitoring - Dashboard continues to show real status, only notifications are blocked **Usage:** ```bash # Enable maintenance mode touch /tmp/cm-maintenance # Run maintenance tasks (backups, service restarts, etc.) systemctl stop service # ... maintenance work ... systemctl start service # Disable maintenance mode rm /tmp/cm-maintenance ``` **NixOS Integration:** - Borgbackup script automatically creates/removes maintenance file - Automatic cleanup via trap ensures maintenance mode doesn't stick - All cinfiguration are shall be done from nixos config **ARCHITECTURE ENFORCEMENT**: - **ZERO legacy code reuse** - Fresh implementation following ARCHITECT.md exactly - **Individual metrics only** - NO grouped metric structures - **Reference-only legacy** - Study old functionality, implement new architecture - **Clean slate mindset** - Build as if legacy codebase never existed **Implementation Rules**: 1. **Individual Metrics**: Each metric is collected, transmitted, and stored individually 2. **Agent Status Authority**: Agent calculates status for each metric using thresholds 3. **Dashboard Composition**: Dashboard widgets subscribe to specific metrics by name 4. **Status Aggregation**: Dashboard aggregates individual metric statuses for widget status **Testing & Building**: - **Workspace builds**: `cargo build --workspace` for all testing - **Clean compilation**: Remove `target/` between architecture changes - **ZMQ testing**: Test agent-dashboard communication independently - **Widget testing**: Verify UI layout matches legacy appearance exactly **NEVER in New Implementation**: - Copy/paste ANY code from legacy backup - Calculate status in dashboard widgets - Hardcode metric names in widgets (use const arrays) # Important Communication Guidelines NEVER write that you have "successfully implemented" something or generate extensive summary text without first verifying with the user that the implementation is correct. This wastes tokens. Keep responses concise. NEVER implement code without first getting explicit user agreement on the approach. Always ask for confirmation before proceeding with implementation. ## Commit Message Guidelines **NEVER mention:** - Claude or any AI assistant names - Automation or AI-generated content - Any reference to automated code generation **ALWAYS:** - Focus purely on technical changes and their purpose - Use standard software development commit message format - Describe what was changed and why, not how it was created - Write from the perspective of a human developer **Examples:** - ❌ "Generated with Claude Code" - ❌ "AI-assisted implementation" - ❌ "Automated refactoring" - ✅ "Implement maintenance mode for backup operations" - ✅ "Restructure storage widget with improved layout" - ✅ "Update CPU thresholds to production values" ## NixOS Configuration Updates When code changes are made to cm-dashboard, the NixOS configuration at `~/nixosbox` must be updated to deploy the changes. ### Update Process 1. **Get Latest Commit Hash** ```bash git log -1 --format="%H" ``` 2. **Update NixOS Configuration** Edit `~/nixosbox/hosts/common/cm-dashboard.nix`: ```nix src = pkgs.fetchgit { url = "https://gitea.cmtec.se/cm/cm-dashboard.git"; rev = "NEW_COMMIT_HASH_HERE"; sha256 = "sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA="; # Placeholder }; ``` 3. **Get Correct Source Hash** Build with placeholder hash to get the actual hash: ```bash cd ~/nixosbox nix-build --no-out-link -E 'with import {}; fetchgit { url = "https://gitea.cmtec.se/cm/cm-dashboard.git"; rev = "NEW_COMMIT_HASH"; sha256 = "sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA="; }' 2>&1 | grep "got:" ``` Example output: ``` error: hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/...': specified: sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA= got: sha256-x8crxNusOUYRrkP9mYEOG+Ga3JCPIdJLkEAc5P1ZxdQ= ``` 4. **Update Configuration with Correct Hash** Replace the placeholder with the hash from the error message (the "got:" line). 5. **Commit NixOS Configuration** ```bash cd ~/nixosbox git add hosts/common/cm-dashboard.nix git commit -m "Update cm-dashboard to latest version (SHORT_HASH)" git push ``` 6. **Rebuild System** The user handles the system rebuild step - this cannot be automated.