Feature Suggestion: Support for Clusters or MultiExec (running the same commands in several different servers at the same time)

[pvlopez00]

One of the nicest features that Asbru and MobaXterm have is this one. It saves a lot of time and makes the work a lot easier when you can run multiple commands at the same time for multiple servers/computers without diving in Ansible or similar technologies. That Ansible variant may add complexity or make the workflow more time consuming for a task that could be easily achieved just by taking advantage of this kind of functionalities which Asbru and MobaXterm already have by default.

[crschnick]

Is this what you are looking for? https://docs.xpipe.io/guide/hub#batch-mode

[pvlopez00]

Yeah but its missing the basic of what makes this function so usefull, and its run the same command in all servers at the same time and in interactive mode. The batch mode XPIPE has only lets you perform an action or run an script, the action you choose is non-interactive, for example: I would like to select mutiple servers using the batch mode and then when i hit the Open/Launch button and they all open, I would type the command date in one of them and it would run the same exact command in the rest of servers I choose. The Batch mode only opens the terminal in all of them but the commands and actions are independent, one could run an script in all of them but again this is non-interactive.

[crschnick]

Alright, I see what you mean now. The challenge here is that XPipe does delegate all terminal handling to external applications, meaning that it doesn't even have control over this.

I looked into this and I think it would be possible to open terminals in new split panes instead of tabs for some terminals, and then use the terminal specific broadcast features: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-1-19-release/#broadcast-input

However, you would have to use a terminal that supports such a feature. I will look into adding the option to control how new terminal panes can be opened from xpipe

[pvlopez00]

Thanks for the attention. It would be great to have such functionality. I'd be expecting this eagerly so I can finally and completely migrate from Asbru/Moba to XPIPE

[crschnick]

let's keep it open until this is implemented