Note
You must have Django installed as an optional dependency (just type ‘pip install Django’) in order to use the web gui
An easy way to monitor FireWorks is to use its web interface (in alpha mode), which provides an overview of the state of your workflows and provides clickable links to see details on any FireWork or Workflow:
It is easy to launch the web framework using the LaunchPad:
lpad webgui
if your LaunchPad file is automatically set via an environment variable on in the current directory (see the config tutorial), or:
lpad -l my_launchpad.yaml webgui
if you need to explicitly specify the LaunchPad file to use.
The -s (or --server) option runs in ‘server mode’, e.g. skips opening up a browser. Other options include --host and --port, but you probably won’t need to modify these.
The current web framework is limited but simple - just click the links you are interested in. One thing to note is that the URLs can be easily modified to quickly bring up a particular FireWork, e.g.:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/fw/1/
points to the data for FireWork id #1 (for the default host and port). You can easily modify this URL to check up on a particular FireWork.