Bench Manager

Bench Manager is a graphical user interface to emulate the functionalities of Frappé Bench. Like the command line utility it helps you install apps, manage multiple sites, update apps and much more.

Installation

Create a new site called bench-manager.local and install Bench Manager on the site.

Automated (preferred)

$ bench setup manager

What all it does:

Create new site bench-manager.local
Gets the bench_manager app from https://github.com/frappe/bench_manager if it doesn't exist already
Installs the bench_manager app on the site bench-manager.local

Manual

$ bench new-site bench-manager.local
$ bench get-app bench_manager
$ bench --site bench-manager.local install-app bench_manager

Update

In frappe-bench directory execute:

$ bench update

Wiki

Features

What can you do using this app ?

Update bench
Backup your sites
Install/Uninstall apps on your site
Restore Backups on either existing sites or new sites
Create new apps and sites

App Catalogue

There are 5 main doctypes associated with this app.

1. Bench Settings

This is a single doctype whose main purpose is to peruse your bench instance and load all the necessary config onto the related doctypes such as App, Site and Site Backup.
The Update button emulates the bench update command and updates all the installed apps.
The Sync button does the following functions.
- Reads your bench instance, greps and loads all the backups onto the Site Backup doctype.
- Reads, greps and populates the Site doctype with all the existing sitse in the current bench instance.
- Reads, greps and populates all the installed apps in the App doctype.
The Bench setting doctype also displays all the config parameters in the common-site-config.json which is applicable to all the sites in your bench instance.

2. Site

The Site doctype shows a list of all the sites in the current bench instance.
Inside each individual docname of the Site doctype one can find 3 clickable buttons.
1. Migrate
  - This button emulates the bench migrate command.
  - It applies schema changes and data migrations if any.
  - Migrate should be run after you pull updates from any Frappé app.
2. Backup Site
  - This button backs up the site with all the files in it.
3. Install App
  - On clicking this button a ui-dialog pops up where one can select and install any app onto the site.
4. Uninstall App
  - Lets you uninstall an app from the site.
5. Reinstall
  - Lets you reinstall a site.
6. Drop Site
  - Lets you delete a site. The backup for the site is automatically taken.
7. View Site
  - Lets you directly access the site. At the click of a button, a new-tab is opened in your browser opening the site.
8. Create Alias
  - Create multiple sites all pointing to the same site, i.e. create multiple aliases for the site.
  - This can also be considered as an alternative to renaming a site.
9. Delete Alias
  - Delete the aliases created.

3. Site Backup

This doctype contains a list of all the backups present in your bench instance (includes both existent and archived sites).
Inside each individual docname one can find a Restore button.
Clicking the Restore button pops up a ui-dialog.
In this ui-dialog once chose whether to restore the backup either on an existing site or on a new site.

4. Bench Manager Command

This doctype is basically a logger for all the commands run using this app.
This doctype displays the source of the command ie. the doctype and docname from where the command originated.
It also displays the date and time on which the command was executed.
The status of the command can be one of 3 types (Success, Failed or Ongoing)
Finally the console text field displays the log of the command.

5. App

This doctype shows a list of all installed apps in the current bench instance, and their git information!

License

MIT

frappe/bench_manager