The Console
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 use the console class to perform any command that can be done 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 design 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 see the command as well as the resulting output from the director. Bat can also do some 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 the sql server the daemon is using and return the results to bat.