https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/ 2026-11-04T02:39:58+00:00 https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/ https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/lib/tpl/argon/images/favicon.ico text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:dispatch:dashboard&rev=1793671856&do=diff The dashboard The dashboard is made of tiles. Each tile shows one thing. You can show or hide tiles, move them and resize them, and save the arrangement. The tiles Tile What it shows System Overview The headline numbers for the board. Quick Actions text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:dispatch:logs&rev=1793671856&do=diff Logs and the Log Viewer The Log Viewer tile Show it with View > Log Viewer, or choose the Operator layout. It shows the newest 5000 lines of everything PBDispatch sees. Control What it does Source tabs All, Dispatcher, ProBoard, BinkP, Web, Toss, QWK. In a narrow tile they collapse into a drop-down. text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:dispatch:mailer_monitor&rev=1793671856&do=diff The Mailer Monitor Watch FidoNet-style mail sessions as they happen. There are two views of the same data. The tile The Mailer Monitor tile is hidden at first. Turn it on under View. [The Mailer Monitor tile] Figure 1. The Mailer Monitor tile, after four calls. The remote sysop's name and a session key have been blurred. text/html 2026-11-03T05:53:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:dispatch:overview&rev=1793656405&do=diff PBDispatch PBDispatch is the program that keeps your board open. It stays running, listens for callers on the ports you enabled, starts a ProBoard.exe node for each one, runs the mailer and the other programs on their schedules, and shows you what is happening. text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:dispatch:reporting&rev=1793671856&do=diff Reporting The Reporting tile (View > Reporting, or the Reports quick action) shows how busy the board is. [The Reporting tile] Figure 1. Reporting for the last 7 days, by day. What it shows * A toolbar with the range: Today, Yesterday, 7 days, 30 days or 60 days, text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:dispatch:services&rev=1793671856&do=diff Service Management This tile has one row for each service: Telnet, SSH, RLogin, FTP, Web, NNTP (news), BinkP and IM (inter-BBS messages). Each row shows a status dot, the name, the port, a status word and three buttons: Stop, Start and Restart. A line under the list reminds you what the buttons do.