Usage Guide

This guide will give you an overview on how to work with the new Bot manager command line system to interact with and administer the running bots.

Bot Manager Commands

The Bot Manager allows a user to command the bots, whether in separate processes or in separate threads. It allows the user/administrator to interact with the bots via the console window using text commands.

• start <index in configuration>: Start the bot that is at the index specified in settings.json. It is a 0 based index.
• stop <index in configuration>: Stop the both that is at the index specified in settings.json. It is a 0 based index.
• show bots: Dump the bot configuration to the console
• help: Shows available commands

The UseSeparateProcesses option from settings.json controls whether the bots will remain in one console (with each bot in a separate thread) or whether it will use separate individual processes with console windows for each bot plus the bot manager. The bot manager commands will work either way.