Workspaces and Server Connections

There are two important terms that can be easily mixed up: Workspace and Server Connection. Both terms are widely used in this manual.

Workspaces are used only if AggreGate Client operates in unified operations console mode. In this mode server connections are also managed manually.

In all other modes AggreGate Client has no workspaces and a single server connection to the server it's launched from.

A Workspace is just a special directory on the user directory that stores the data used by a single AggreGate Client user. Note that this is the AggreGate Client user - a person who actually uses this specific installation of AggreGate Client to control one or more AggreGate Servers. It is not the same as user account on the AggreGate Server. Even though every AggreGate Client user usually has an AggreGate Server user account, it's important to keep the distinction. A AggreGate Client user may have more than one AggreGate Server user account, and theoretically, you could also have someone run the AggreGate Client without having any valid AggreGate Server user account to work with (to test it, etc). The AggreGate Client itself would still work (you couldn't do much with it, but it would work...).

A Workspace:

  • Contains definitions of zero or more server connections,
  • Contains a window layout (windows size, position, docked/floating status, etc.),
  • Is encrypted (the workspace password unlocks it),
  • Is never transferred to the server completely or partially.

A server connection:

  • Is stored within the workspace (securely encrypted),
  • Includes server address, port, name of user account on the server and password to this account,
  • Is just a local configuration definition - AggreGate Client will attempt to connect to the AggreGate Server installation using these credentials. If they're correct (i.e, the server is where it's supposed to be, and an account which matches the credentials), it will work.

Workspaces

Workspaces are stored in the /.ag/workspaces folder of the user directory, i.e. /John/.ag/workspaces/test/*.* contains the “test” workspace of John. Workspaces can be transferred between the AggreGate Client installations, but workspaces saved in older AggreGate Client versions may not load correctly on newer versions.

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