[FEATURE] - Reimplement scripting, similar to Remotely's.

[bitbound]

There should be a scripting system, similar to Remotely's, that includes:

• Creating and editing scripts directly in the browser (maybe use Monaco)
• Categorizing/organizing scripts
• Recurring script schedules
• Conditional execution and verification (e.g. test -> act (if false) -> test -> report result).
• Configurable log levels (e.g. only save >=Warning level).

Stretch goals:

• File attachments, which can be used/invoked by the script
• Comprehensive variable substitution
• Nice dashboard for overview of script runs (success, fail, etc.)

Performance Considerations:

• Address Heavy load on the disk. immense/Remotely#995
• Use queueing for dispatching/execution and ingestion control for results
• Maybe use MinIO, since this would allow for efficient streaming
  • Besides, I'm going to need a separate blob storage in the near future.

Feedback/suggestions are more than welcome for this feature. 🙂

[mattish91]

Monaco looks great! I support that option of Monaco (looks great).

The way you could setup a "folder structure" in remotely was very good, logical and made sence. I think there could be some improvements to the "script selection" when running scripts on clients. my result in Remotely were to name the scripts "Win - script does" and it would be better to say that the scripts are categorized, so "category" is it's own column and then show the scripts in that column or even sub categories as i have "Windows/Scrips" or "Windows/Applications" as the category in Remotely.

This is basically what i made of it in remotely:

Im excited to see where this goes :)

[bitbound]

Thanks, @mattish91 ! This is great feedback. I'll be referring back to this (and other feedback) when I start working on the feature.

Panic

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[ImAleeexx]

Hey, a remotely user here!

I appreciate your work and your quality software for remote control. For me this is the only feature that keeps me in remotely and havent switched up to ControlR so i think this will be a great addition to this project. As @mattish91 said in the reply, monaco would be great as an editor for the scripts and a folder structure as well. One of the big benefits in remotely is being able to schedule scripts for turned off computers and launch scripts to specific group of computers in one click.

Hope this feature is implemented in ControlR as it will improve the project a lot.

[mattish91]

Would also be great to have a notification system in place, to be notified if/when something goes wrong when running scripts. Like an apt repo having a faulty gpg key or a PS script stopped prematurely or something like that. I have now setup all my scripts to log the output to "C:\RMM\logs" and "/RMM/logs/" That might be it's own feature tho ^^.