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[Feature Request] - Persistent Topologies #1478

Open akant74 opened 5 years ago

akant74 commented 5 years ago

Hello gang ... I have a feature request for gns3.

In our scenario we use gns3 hosted on a server and have our network team connect their local clients to the gns3 server. So "Main Server" in gns3 always points to our hosted gns3 vm.

In this server hosted mode all topologies are shared and saved the server.

It would be great if a created network topology could have a flag added to it make it "always on" so when the original creator closed gns3 that the entire topology would continue to run and be accessible. So basically it never shut down the objects in the topology and they would continue to run. This would be helpful as clients move around from place to place and need to disconnect...etc. In addition being able to observe running topologies over time would be useful.

Thank you all!

grossmj commented 5 years ago

Hi,

You should be able to do this already if you go to File -> Edit project and tick "Leave this project running in the background when closing GNS3".

leave_project_running

CapnCheapo commented 5 years ago

I wonder if this could/should be further extended to allow the starting of a project as either a command line argument specified with gns3server or otherwise some kind of option in the config file, for example:

gns3server --open myproj

or in gns3_server.conf:

[server] autoprojectload = myproj