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Snarl 5.0 Beta 7 Released! #51

Closed fullphat closed 6 years ago

fullphat commented 6 years ago

Beta 7 is now available for download!

Key changes:

fruza commented 6 years ago

Hi!.

Still cannot place all configuration files: %APPDATA%\full phat\snarl 5.0\etc in a centralized server. Allways I run snarl, it's going to find the files to %APPDATA% :

bootstrap: starting notification roster... NotificationRoster.Start(): %appdata% is C:\Users\ffrr12\AppData\Roaming\full phat\snarl 5.0\etc\ NotificationRoster.Start(): loading osd.rc... NotificationRoster.readOsdConfig(): reading osd settings... NotificationRoster.Start(): checking osd presets folder... NotificationRoster.getOsdPresets(): loading osd presets... bootstrap: starting application roster... reading from: C:\Users\ffrr12\AppData\Roaming\full phat\snarl 5.0\etc\registrations.rc reading from: C:\Users\ffrr12\AppData\Roaming\full phat\snarl 5.0\etc\apps\15ec1f44-9a5b-42b9-afa4-459a0163330f.rc reading from: C:\Users\ffrr12\AppData\Roaming\full phat\snarl 5.0\etc\apps\1a20183f-0b93-4744-8432-719491e96a95.rc Registering Snarl as an app... RulesRoster.Process(): not running!

I've trying redirect.rc but this file is to say where sysadmin.json is, not the .rc snarl configuration files.

Regards, Fernando.

fullphat commented 6 years ago

That’s right. At the moment redirecting all of the local settings content isn’t in place just yet. What are you looking to do?

fruza commented 6 years ago

I'm planning to deploy snarl to a thousand computers aproximately and I would like to have all of them with the same configuration. I would like to have all of the local settings content centralized in a file server so that it depends for computers not for user.

In olders versions I think it was possible to set this up with the file: sysconfig.ssl as it's detailed here: https://sites.google.com/site/snarlapp/help-and-support/snarl-administration-guide

Best regards, Fernando.

fullphat commented 6 years ago

Understood! I had a think about this and I’ve decided to rework the way Snarl manages its settings. This has been on the roadmap for some time, but it’s now been bumped up the list. :)

Currently, settings are mainly held in “ini” style files, which, while easy to manage, are quite restrictive.

I’ve now made a start on flattening all these files into a single “settings.json” file. The key benefit here (other than the ability to easily parse and use classes to determine the contents) is that we’ve now moved from tens of separate files to one single file, which can easily be redirected.

To this end, I’ve also added two new settings to the sysadmin JSON file - ConfigFileUrl and ConfigFilePath - which can now point to the full Snarl settings file to use. If either of these are used, Snarl will assume the settings are read-only too.

This all probably sounds quite complicated :) so I will make sure the sysadmin guide is updated in time for the next beta release.

One last feature to mention is that you can now make Snarl reload its settings dynamically by calling Oxide /diagnostics/reload_settings which could be useful if you modify your global settings file and need all your Snarl instances to reload the modified file.

fruza commented 6 years ago

Thanks very much, fullphat for your work. It sounds very nice your improvements. When do think it would be available the new beta release?.

Regards, Fernando.

fullphat commented 6 years ago

Very soon 😀 I'm just making some final changes and then I'll get it posted. In the meantime, I've updated the SysAdmin guide a bit so you can see what's coming: https://github.com/fullphat/snarl/wiki/SysAdmin-Guide

Chris

fullphat commented 6 years ago

Beta 8 now available! See issue #52