Implement an ipdevpoll "refresh" mechanism in the ipdevinfo UI

[jmbredal]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Once upon a time (i.e. NAV 3.4 and earlier, in the pre-ipdevpoll era), there was a "Force refresh" button in the old IP Device center UI. This button would send an event to getDeviceData (the old collection engine) and ask it to re-run collection for the device being browsed.

A manual refresh trigger is always useful, especially after making configuration changes to devices and wanting to see those changes reflected in NAV as soon as possible (the inventory job, for example, runs only every 6 hours, so you could potentially need to wait up to 6 hours for an inventory update to take place).

We should re-implement this mechanism for ipdevpoll.

Describe the solution you'd like

ipdevinfo already features a box of ipdevpoll job statuses. The refresh function would fit nicely into this, as it would make sense to ask ipdevpoll to run individual jobs immediately.

As discussed in the NAV reference committee, a refresh button or context menu should be made available on each job line, which would trigger ipdevpoll to run that job again immediately. For the 1minstats job this might not be very useful, since it runs every minute, but it might be very useful for the inventory job, or even the dns job.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Just direct the user to use the existing command line functionality of ipdevpoll:

ipdevpolld -J inventory -n example-sw.example.org

However, not all users are comfortable with resorting to the command line, and it is convenient for most users to be able to refresh directly from the UI where they are already looking at the collected details.

Additional context

The original Launchpad issue was: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/651058

Feature breakdown

• Make ipdevpoll able to respond to refresh events #2626
• Decide what an ipdevinfo refresh action UX should look like and behave
• Implement a job refresh UI in ipdevinfo job listing

And optionally:

• Store ipdevpoll log output to failed jobs in ipdevpoll_job_log table
• Add ipdevinfo UX to display job log output for failed jobs

[ingeborgoh]

It would be nice if the feature also would show any error messages from the ipdevpoll processes.