command to switch servers

[AnthonyFuller]

I want to type stuff into server1 console but server2 console is the active one I need a command like

SWITCH [SERVER NAME/FOLDER]
switches the console

[AnthonyFuller]

BUMP

[ButterscotchV]

I doubt this is very possible, I assume you are using SSH, so I'd suggest making multiple instances (If you're using Linux, I'd suggest something like screen) and running MultiAdmin on each one instead. If it is possible, then it's probably not easy at all.

[PatPeter]

YES!!! Instead of allowing us to switch what server's output we're viewing, all of the output should have the unique ID of the server prefixed along with the date to each log entry.

In addition, each command should require the server's unique ID specified as a parameter, or instead of switching the output of each server, SWITCH/SELECT will select which server commands are sent to.

I'll look into this and make a pull request if I can implement it.

[PatPeter]

@Grover-c13 I'm thinking of using my MultiAdmin fork to try implementing this sometime this week. The way it will work is the admin types:

select <folder name>

And each command fired after that will be fired into that server instance. In addition, the logs will look as follows:

[01:48:00] [<folder name>] Accepted authentication token of...

So that users can differentiate which server each line of output is coming from.

I don't want to name it switch since it isn't switching the console, just changing which server receives the input.

[Grover-c13]

Sounds good, I'm sure a lot of people would like that feature.

[PatPeter]

I hate how I've been so swamped with fixing my plugins that I haven't had time to work on this, but trust me I think of this every time I have to input a command in one of my five servers at random hoping it goes to the right one.

[PatPeter]

I'm lowkey angry that I haven't had the time to fully work on this while trying to resolve my own server's issues.

[AnthonyFuller]

Any progress?

[PatPeter]

Whenever I get back to #168 to fix this new annoying bug, I'll definitely work on fixing #151 as well. Right now, I'm so swamped with work for my 7-8 servers that I don't know when I'll be getting to MultiAdmin development.

[PatPeter]

If my Patreon plugin wasn't broken all this weekend and during the New Year, I would have been working on this issue instead. Kept trying to tell one of my servers to restart and it was restarting the first instance instead of the second.

[ButterscotchV]

I'm planning this for my pull request (#200), if you have any good ideas on how to do this, I'd appreciate the help.

[ButterscotchV]

Sadly I didn't end up making this yet, my new plan is to simply output all the server's messages to console (potentially have the command to filter to just a specific server and back?), but have the Server ID displayed with the message and log to their own files like how it would work normally.

[PatPeter]

Yeah I've been doing research on and off on how we would do it. The problem is any libraries that I would use are either for Linux on Linux or Windows on Windows. I was thinking of MultiAdmin starting a Linux screen for each server, or splitting the output into two divided columns. Posting the output from all servers is a step in the right direction though.

I can't think of how to do this in Mono without storing all the output to a buffer and risking a memory leak. We might have to do a "select" command to select which server to send commands to instead of a "switch" command to change the view along with the destination of the commands.

@Grover-c13 I'm thinking of using my MultiAdmin fork to try implementing this sometime this week. The way it will work is the admin types:

select <folder name>

And each command fired after that will be fired into that server instance. In addition, the logs will look as follows:

[01:48:00] [<folder name>] Accepted authentication token of...

So that users can differentiate which server each line of output is coming from.

I don't want to name it switch since it isn't switching the console, just changing which server receives the input.