dsh-server-deck

Managing several remote servers usually means pinging each one with ad-hoc commands and juggling terminal windows. dsh-server-deck pulls every connected host into a single card wall: a breathing status dot, OS name, uptime, core count, handshake latency, and live CPU / memory / disk bars, so you can tell at a glance which box is under load. A dedicated trend view plots CPU, memory, and disk over a time window, eliminating the need to grep logs or spin up a monitoring stack just to see a spike.

Clicking any card drops you straight into a full-featured xterm.js terminal with 5000 lines of scrollback, 256-color support, real-time window-size sync, and a blinking cursor, all bridged over WebSocket to an ssh2 shell on the Node side. The server list can be populated in one shot by parsing your ~/.ssh/config file (Host, HostName, User, Port, IdentityFile, ProxyJump), automatically skipping wildcard entries and Git-hosting key aliases while preferring semantic aliases for display. Manual addition is equally straightforward: password, private key with passphrase, or SSH Agent, with a connect-test button that gives instant latency feedback.

The UI adapts to your setup: if dsh-better-sidebar is installed it registers as a native sidebar tab under a settings toggle; otherwise it falls back to a draggable right-edge panel with persisted width, so the two forms never conflict. Security is baked in from day one, all API and PTY routes are loopback-only to prevent DNS rebinding and LAN direct access, secrets live in a 0600 local file and are never echoed back in API responses, and deleting a host merely removes it from the local ledger without executing any operation on the remote machine.

Best suited for DeepSeek Harness users who run two or more servers and want a single interface for status checks and immediate hands-on work. The managed side only needs SSH open with no pre-installed software required. Trend backfill relies on the remote sar utility from sysstat; if it is absent the feature is silently skipped without throwing errors.