"Out of order" messages

[apdavison]

Björn Kindler asked:

"we currently have a problem on our end with the Spikey systems. This leads to a long queue of "submitted" jobs (attached screenshot).

Is there a way I could enter a message somewhere in your admin interface, which gets shown as an error message as soon as someone submits a job to the Spikey system via the NMPI, i.e. at this step in the Jupyter:

    job = client.submit_job(source='recurrent.py',
                      platform=nmpi.SPIKEY,
                      collab_id=24491,
                      config=hw_config,
                      command="run.py --STATION=station538",
                            wait=True)

Thus giving me a way to tell users "sorry, currently out of order. We know about the problem and are working on fixing it"?
"

[apdavison]

We could also support a "message of the day", where we inform users of current problems even before they try to submit a job.