Hello,

This sounds like a nice feature.

In the mean time, you could probably script this by having two different 
bconsole.conf files, one for each director, then call a script that takes the 
Director name and then executes bconsole with the correct conf file.

File bcon:

========
#!/bin/sh
<bin-path>/bconsole -c <conf-path>$1.conf
======

dir1.conf defines the first director
dir2.conf defines the second

./bcon dir1

and 

./bcon dir2

On Wednesday 14 July 2010 16:20:18 Olaf Zevenboom wrote:
> Item x (new): add the ability to pass a director-name to bconsole on start
> of bconsole Date: 14 july 2010
> Origin: Olaf Zevenboom (olaf at artefact dot nl)
> Status:
>
> Background:
> Recently I found myself adding a second Director to the network while in
> process of moving Bacula to a new server. To allow easy administration I
> added the other Director to both bconsole.conf files on the two servers. As
> a result none of my custom scripts using bconsole worked anymore. The
> reason for this is that bconsole is not sure to connect to which director
> and therefor asks the user. The scripts however were written when no such
> question was asked as there was only one director at the time.
>
> Proposal:
> - add a configuration keyword to bconsole, for instance "default"
> specifying to which director this bconsole should connect by default, if
> this option is not found or defined as "none" or something: act as bconsole
> currently does and ask the user. - add a parameter to the bconsole command
> allowing to define the director to which it should connect. If this
> parameter is not set: check for to new keyword as described above etc. If
> parameter is ill-formed: report so and ask for which director to connect to
> - allow for director-name "localhost" as a generic name for the director
> running on the machine the script executing bconsole is running on. This
> way scripts can become portable when calling bconsole with localhost.
>
>
>
>
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