The Console Interface
The Clients List Interface
The Jobs Interface
The Job List Interface
The Job Plot Interface
The Media Interface
The Storage Interface
The two Restore Interfaces
Welcome to the bacula administration tool. The bat is a graphical interface to communicate with and administer the bacula director daemon. If you have been using bacula for a while, your familiar with bconsole, the text based interface to administer bacula. With bat, the user can perform any command that can be run from bconsole, and more.
The bat is bconsole with extra communication capabilities and a set of graphical user interfaces that utilize those capabilities. A bat programmer is able to create interfaces interact with the director in all ways that a user can, by executing commands. When a command is entered by the interface, bat will type in the command in the console and will often times change the interface visible to the console so that the user can read the command as well as the resulting output from the director. Bat can also perform requests of the daemon, that the user normally would not do. These would be the ability to retrieve lists of various resources and also to perform requests of the director to query director daemon's sql server and the director will return the query results to bat.