RCon server administration coming to ArmA 2!

[Soner]

Hmm,
it seems that Battleye is sending all data correctly whereas the arma 2 server itself is not.:confused:

[larsiano]

I can open the program fine, but I have a new problem for you

As soon as I connect I see the player list for a split second, then it disappears. I click refresh and it does the same thing.

I took a video so you could see it:

have you run the program as admin?


I also have a question?
Is there any special thing to do for a Linux server (ubuntu 10.x). server works is tracked by gametracker and gamespy with no problems but i cant connect with the RCon tool

i have a folder inside the:
Arma2\battleye\beserver.so
Arma2\battleye\beserver.cfg
Containing:
RConPassword 1234
Maxping 300
be = 1 in server.cfg
port is forwarded in router

[GossamerSolid]

Hmm,
it seems that Battleye is sending all data correctly whereas the arma 2 server itself is not.:confused:

weird... w/e the cause is, I hope it gets fixed.

[Soner]

OK,
i uploaded the alpha version of V. 1.5. Now the player list should not be get cleared at least. Hope it works now. If so do you get "Waiting for response" messages?

http://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon/files



Is there any special thing to do for a Linux server (ubuntu 10.x). server works is tracked by gametracker and gamespy with no problems but i cant connect with the RCon tool
Which RCon tool? Did you try to connect with BERCon?

[larsiano]

Yes i tried with ArmA 2 RCon GUI 1.3 /1.4 that works nice for my windows server but not on the linux machine mssg: cannot connect

[$able]

I also have a question?
Is there any special thing to do for a Linux server (ubuntu 10.x). server works is tracked by gametracker and gamespy with no problems but i cant connect with the RCon tool

i have a folder inside the:
Arma2\battleye\beserver.so
Arma2\battleye\beserver.cfg
Containing:
RConPassword 1234
Maxping 300
be = 1 in server.cfg
port is forwarded in router

Is this an OA server? If so, put the beserver.cfg into .\expansion\battleye.

[luap]

Hi Soner,

Thanks for the Gui RCon tool.

What planes do you have in the future for this tool ? As someone else has mentioned adding a admin chat feature would be terrific if possible.

[Soner]

Hi luap,
thanks for your kind words.
Well I am currently working on V. 1.5 final which will enable the user to store all player data contained in the player list in a sql database. So you will be able to track player activities on your server or just create statistics.


As someone else has mentioned adding a admin chat feature would be terrific if possible.
I am not sure but I think that there is currently no server command supporting this feature.

[larsiano]

Is this an OA server? If so, put the beserver.cfg into .\expansion\battleye.
No this is a standard 26slots Arm2 server named: Battlegroup-=XTRA=-Arma2. But what im wondering is if BE reads from the Arma2 game folder? (In windows this is a different folder). And if Linux can read the 'RConPassword' with the capitols this might not be right?

[$able]

No this is a standard 26slots Arm2 server named: Battlegroup-=XTRA=-Arma2. But what im wondering is if BE reads from the Arma2 game folder? (In windows this is a different folder). And if Linux can read the 'RConPassword' with the capitols this might not be right?

The capitals aren't a problem. Are you sure the file name is lower-case though, i.e. "beserver.cfg"?

[=WBG=ati]

http://dev-heaven.net/issues/15982

be nice to have that in there!

[Soner]

I will see what I can do, ati.

Today ArmA 2 RCon 1.5 released! I added 2 new features:
Player database Auto refresh

If you like this tool and want to support further development, please donate to paypal [at] forgesoft.net (see donation link in the program menu).
Thanks!

[Kochleffel]

I will see what I can do, ati.

Today ArmA 2 RCon 1.5 released! I added 2 new features:
Player database Auto refresh

If you like this tool and want to support further development, please donate to paypal [at] forgesoft.net (see donation link in the program menu).
Thanks!

here u have the exact download link.

http://dev-heaven.net/attachments/download/9758/ArmA2RCon.zip

i attached a small readme to the file.

[jirkaelda]

Well, last version working for me was 1.3. Version 1.4 just crashed everytime i tried to connect.
In the latest version I get this error if I try to connect to the Linux server:
Invalid memory access
Code:-1073741819
Code Address: $771120CB
TargetAddress: $0
SourceCode line: 1180

Windows 7 pro, tried run it as adminisrator too.
Could you help me please?

[Killswitch]

$able, it seems that the ban reason part of a bans.txt file gets truncated to 31 characters when it is transfered to the RCon client. For example, if the bans.txt file on the server contains this line:

11112222333344445555666677778888 -1 Silly person ruining the game for others...then, when querying for the ban list using the RCon bans command, you'll only recieve the following:

GUID Bans:
[#] [GUID] [Minutes left] [Reason]
----------------------------------------
0 11112222333344445555666677778888 perm Silly person ruining the game f
Is that a bug or a feature? (BE server v1.113)

EDIT It may also be a 72-characters-per-line limit in the list that's sent back when you issue the bans command

[UGLY58]

I have tried every trick listed here to get the rcon working, yet continually get "could not connect"

Frustratingly I have had this working on other servers in the past !

It is beyond me how there are no decent comprehensive instructions for Battle Eye or for any of the GUIs.

$able - Can you please explain in one comprehensive page the instructions for getting this installed and working. It seems reading all 27 pages that a lot of things have changed and some pages even contradict each other. If I could just get the official version connected it would be a start.

It seems that most confusion is over where to place the beserver.cfg dependant on where your profile leads. I appreciate you have explained this somewhat here but and example would help a lot.

[Killswitch]

It seems that most confusion is over where to place the beserver.cfg dependant on where your profile leads.The first post phrases it like this:

All you have to do to enable it is creating a BEServer.cfg file in your BattlEye working directory (in the application data / profiles / BEpath folder, not the install folder)This then begs the question of where "the BattlEye working directory" is. The parenthesis in the quote suggests it has to do with something called the application data folder or the profiles folder or the BEPath folder. A further question arises - what are these three?

The BattlEye working directory is a folder named BattlEye in one of two places:
The ArmA II application data folder
In Windows Vista, 7 and 2008, that's the path given by %LOCALAPPDATA%\ArmA 2 for ArmA II and %LOCALAPPDATA%\ArmA 2 OA for the Arrowhead dedi. A typical value is C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ArmA 2.
In Windows XP and 2003, the application data folder is %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\ArmA 2. A typical example is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application data\ArmA 2. These locations are the default and are used if you launch the dedicated server without using either the -profiles or -BEpath launch parameters.
The path given as the -profiles=... startup parameter used when launching the ArmA II dedi. If, for example, you would launch the ArmA II OA dedicated server using
arma2oaserver.exe -profiles=D:\Games\ArmA2then the BattlEye working directory would be D:\Games\ArmA2\BattlEye
You can also specify the BattlEye working directory directly using the startup parameter -BEpath. Example:

arma2oaserver.exe -BEpath=D:\MyBattlEyeIn this case, the BattlEye working directory will be D:\MyBattlEye.

Here are examples of the full paths to the beserver.cfg file for a few different cases. The examples assume that the username of the user that will run the servers is "jimbob". "ArmA II" means running the arma2server.exe whereas "Arma II OA" means you're launching arma2oaserver.exe

ArmA II, Windows 7/Vista/2008, default:
C:\Users\jimbob\AppData\Local\ArmA 2\BattlEye\beserver.cfg
ArmA II OA, Windows 7/Vista/2008, default:
C:\Users\jimbob\AppData\Local\ArmA 2 OA\BattlEye\beserver.cfg
ArmA II, Windows XP, default:
C:\Documents and Settings\jimbob\Local Settings\Application data\ArmA 2\BattlEye\beserver.cfg
ArmA II OA, Windows XP, default:
C:\Documents and Settings\jimbob\Local Settings\Application data\ArmA 2 OA\BattlEye\beserver.cfg
Any ArmA II, any Windows, -profile=D:\profiles:
D:\profiles\BattlEye\beserver.cfg

For Linux dedicated servers, the default locations are:
For the ArmA II dedi, it's ./battleye
For the ArmA II OA dedi, it's ./expansion/battleye

[UGLY58]

Killswitch,

Thank you, a comprehensive instruction at last :)

However it didn`t cure my particular issue, but at least I am now confident I have the beserver.cfg in the right place.

I now however get a Battleye Server: Unknown Command message on startup, I only have the RConPassword XXXXXX in the beserver.cfg

[$able]

I now however get a Battleye Server: Unknown Command message on startup, I only have the RConPassword XXXXXX in the beserver.cfg

Try to re-create the beserver.cfg, maybe there is some weird hidden character in there.

[MJK-Ranger]

Try to re-create the beserver.cfg, maybe there is some weird hidden character in there.

Same problem here :(

---------- Post added at 18:14 ---------- Previous post was at 18:05 ----------


Killswitch,

Thank you, a comprehensive instruction at last :)

However it didn`t cure my particular issue, but at least I am now confident I have the beserver.cfg in the right place.

I now however get a Battleye Server: Unknown Command message on startup, I only have the RConPassword XXXXXX in the beserver.cfg

Hi.

I also have he same problem Battleye Server: Unknown Command message

[UGLY58]

$able,


Try to re-create the beserver.cfg, maybe there is some weird hidden character in there.

Done but with no luck, still getting: could not connect!

10:17:56 Dedicated host created.
10:17:57 BattlEye Server: Initialized (v1.113)
10:17:58 Host identity created.
10:17:58 BattlEye Server: Unknown command

Server start up message showing unknown command.

I have tried both original RCon and GUIs no luck.

[MJK-Ranger]

$able,



Done but with no luck, still getting: could not connect!

10:17:56 Dedicated host created.
10:17:57 BattlEye Server: Initialized (v1.113)
10:17:58 Host identity created.
10:17:58 BattlEye Server: Unknown command

Server start up message showing unknown command.

I have tried both original RCon and GUIs no luck.

Same here... did exactly the same as UGLY58...

[Jest]

Edit: unrelated issue with IP address.

[MJK-Ranger]

@<hidden>

Problem solved :p

You need to use your external IP(Your ISP IP) to connect to your Arma 2 server with RCon.
I don't know why you can't connect from your own local network with your local IP using RCon.... i can join my own arma 2 server using local ip here, but for some reason this is not working with RCon...

@<hidden> No problem here with the new arma 2 update and the new Battleye

Cheers

[=WBG=ati]

I have noticet that the arma 2 rcon tool does not refresh after some time seems like that it disconnects its self. i dident edit the settings.ini file or something !

[zyklone]

I wrote a basic rcon client library in ruby using EventMachine for a project.
Available at http://github.com/cotillion/em-battleye

The plan is to release a gem soonish.
Improvements welcome.

[jirkaelda]

Well, last version working for me was 1.3. Version 1.4 just crashed everytime i tried to connect.
In the latest version I get this error if I try to connect to the Linux server:
Invalid memory access
Code:-1073741819
Code Address: $771120CB
TargetAddress: $0
SourceCode line: 1180

Windows 7 pro, tried run it as adminisrator too.
Could you help me please?

Well, it is working now. The problem was solved by setting "windows XP SP3 compatibility mode".

[emtguyp56]

I am using art of war central for my arma 2 server. I have tried to get rcon to work and have them do it but they have no idea. I think they are running windows 2008. How to i get it to work so i can use rcon. Here is a screen shot of the ftp.

http://img521.imageshack.us/i/serverv.jpg/

[larsiano]

its real simple for AOW server: make a file called : BEServer.cfg in the battleye folder (i think it was the one in the temp folder or users) and make sure it has this in the file:

RConPassword 123456youpassword789
Maxping 400

[nuxil]

i made an alternative Battleye rcon client.
it works by using the chatline.

basicly you will have BE power on the chatline.

http://www.bildedump.no/pics/da346eff6b9d412bb2fd8555b36499c9.jpg

http://www.bildedump.no/pics/722827bffc16c0b1efbb283e610b8eff.jpg


http://www.bildedump.no/pics/f1011c9e4462597209a0060100ecf9b1.jpg


still needs a bit more development before a release can be done.
its written in python so it should work in both windows and linux.
altho its not tested on linux yet.

this is a server application only. no need to install anything as a client.
admin premissions are checked on the server. only admins listed in the auth file will be able to issue commands.

autokicks on bad languages. this can be enabled,its optional

you can also enable a autokick function on none english/latin words. like cyrillic
this is enabled in a config file, also optional


altho im going to create a exe version for windows instead of a bunch of *.py files

more to come soon

[MiBF]

i made an alternative Battleye rcon client.
Very good! That what I need)
GJ!

[ball0fire]

indeed

im suprised none of these excellent rcons have some kind of chat messaging capabilities yet

i dont know how to do any of this but i didnt think it would be that hard, see'ing as we can already send global messages throo BE when we kick or ban somone, cant it just work off that system to send BE messages?

anyhoo keep up the good work with the Rcon's

[nuxil]

indeed

im suprised none of these excellent rcons have some kind of chat messaging capabilities yet

i dont know how to do any of this but i didnt think it would be that hard

Sending messages throught BE is beeing worked on. but according to able. no eta on it.

its already possible to send messages from the server using packet injection. but that is something most people want to avoid.
and most people dont know how to do that. and is not really a optimal solution.

[nukerat]

I am at a loss. I use Art of War central and have tried virtually everything. I have put the BEServer.cfg file with the corret information in both the battleye folder and the expansions/battleye folder and not luck. I have tried using the 123456youpassword789 deal. No luck. I have use both the .9 version of bercon and version 5. I continue to the the "could not connet" message. I have no clue what I am doing wrong here. I have searched the web as well. Can anyone that uses Art of War servers please help. This is driving me nuts. I have also tried running as admin with both progams. I tried changing the combatibilty modes as well. I do use a router. Could this be the problem? Thank you all for your efforts. I patiently wait for a genius to help me out. Thank you again.

Nuke

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Did you check the BIKI page yet?
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BattlEye

[nukerat]

I have. Thank you very much. No luck though. I have a AOW central tech working on the problem now. You would think he has ran across this issue before. We will see. Thank you PvPscene for the reply.

Nuke

[.kju [PvPscene]]

No worries Nuke. It's quite hard to get it working - thanks to Killswitch the BIKI page has a
guide that works for most at least.

[nukerat]

Here is the response I got from the AOWCentral tech.
AoWC Farchord has added the following comment to this ticket on 2/16/2011 5:02:06 PM:
RE:Battleye RCon
Well I tried everything now.... a .cfg at the root of the server... a .cfg in the battleye folder and a cfg in the Expansion/battleye, not sure what else to try" The expansion\battleye folder is where the server cmd line is pointed to. Here is the line..
BEpath=C:\game\xxxxxxxx\GameServers\TC12242421830611326050560\Expansion\battleye
I am sure he has tried everything he can think of. Maybe one of you AOWcentral users have a solution.
On a side note. The AOW staff have always replied very quickly and usually can provide solutions. Obviously not always. I do commend there customer response and hold nothing against them. Thank you all for your efforts.

Nuke

[11aTony]

Sorry if this has been asked before.

Why cant you have "space" in BattleEye path?
i.e.
ArmA 2 path
"C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\Combined Operations"
BE path apparently does not allow space between Bohemia and Interactive. So when you launch server.exe it creates new forlder in:
C:\Program Files\Bohemia\...
Why is that?

[[HUD]Dorph]

Is there a limit to how many bans can be held ? Reason i ask is that lately BERcon stops responding when i type the "bans" command. The "players" command still does like it should but "bans" BERcon disconnects. Think i have aprox 140 bans in the list.

Another thing my server plays Doomi and every time a be-banned player tries to connect, a player slot will be occupied by ai. Only way to remove the ai from slot is for loggedin admin to got to lobby and force himself into the ai-taken slot.

[Dwarden]

Sorry if this has been asked before.

Why cant you have "space" in BattleEye path?
i.e.
ArmA 2 path
"C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\Combined Operations"
BE path apparently does not allow space between Bohemia and Interactive. So when you launch server.exe it creates new forlder in:
C:\Program Files\Bohemia\...
Why is that?


did you enclosed the -bePath= with "" like "-betPath=C:\someweird name here"
?

[$able]

Here is the response I got from the AOWCentral tech. The expansion\battleye folder is where the server cmd line is pointed to. Here is the line..
I am sure he has tried everything he can think of. Maybe one of you AOWcentral users have a solution.
On a side note. The AOW staff have always replied very quickly and usually can provide solutions. Obviously not always. I do commend there customer response and hold nothing against them. Thank you all for your efforts.

Nuke

Did you read my PM? Is the problem solved now?

[[HUD]Dorph]

Dorph;1862504']Another thing my server plays Doomi and every time a be-banned player tries to connect, a player slot will be occupied by ai. Only way to remove the ai from slot is for loggedin admin to got to lobby and force himself into the ai-taken slot.

Any comments to above

[nukerat]

I am at a loss. I use Art of War central and have tried virtually everything. I have put the BEServer.cfg file with the corret information in both the battleye folder and the expansions/battleye folder and not luck. I have tried using the 123456youpassword789 deal. No luck. I have use both the .9 version of bercon and version 5. I continue to the the "could not connet" message. I have no clue what I am doing wrong here. I have searched the web as well. Can anyone that uses Art of War servers please help. This is driving me nuts. I have also tried running as admin with both progams. I tried changing the combatibilty modes as well. I do use a router. Could this be the problem? Thank you all for your efforts. I patiently wait for a genius to help me out. Thank you again.

Nuke


Did you read my PM? Is the problem solved now?[/


Here is the response I got from the AOWCentral tech.
Quote:
AoWC Farchord has added the following comment to this ticket on 2/16/2011 5:02:06 PM:
RE:Battleye RCon
Well I tried everything now.... a .cfg at the root of the server... a .cfg in the battleye folder and a cfg in the Expansion/battleye, not sure what else to try"

The expansion\battleye folder is where the server cmd line is pointed to. Here is the line..
Quote:
BEpath=C:\game\xxxxxxxx\GameServers\TC122424218306 11326050560\Expansion\battleye

I am sure he has tried everything he can think of. Maybe one of you AOWcentral users have a solution.
On a side note. The AOW staff have always replied very quickly and usually can provide solutions. Obviously not always. I do commend there customer response and hold nothing against them. Thank you all for your efforts.

Nuke

OK, found the problem. Here is the deal for those that do not know. When using AOW Central they have a R Con contol panel to acces the server information, start, stop the server etc. In the control panel it shows the ip address for your server. That is the one I was using. Same one I use for FTP access. It did not work for BE Rcon at all. I even asked tech to check to make sure I was using the right ip address. Well, I have recently added a gametracker banner to my website and while playing with it I linked to the details page and notice they have my server with a slightly different ip address. So, Yes. I used the ip that gametracker recognized and it worked fine. So if you are using AOW central and have this problem. You now have an option to check the ip. Funny thing is. FTP uses the other IP. I think there may be two ip's per server or something. Not sure. Hope this helps any that are lost out there.

Sorry for not getting back to you soon $able. I have left you a PM as well. Thank you again for your help my friend.

Nuke

[daikan]

2 quick questions:

Will there be a Linux version of RCon, too?
What protocol is used to talk to the server? TCP, UDP or both?

[$able]

2 quick questions:

Will there be a Linux version of RCon, too?
What protocol is used to talk to the server? TCP, UDP or both?


1. Not planned right now. It should be easy to create a similar Linux client though (the RCon protocol specification is available here: http://www.battleye.com/downloads/BERConProtocol.txt).
2. UDP.

[Soner]

Hello guys,
just wanted to announce that I continued the development of the RCon tool.
And it seems that I have managed to fix the known crash occuring at random when starting the tool. The issue can be traced to the GUI lib I had been using.

I will release a new version soon and I hope that everybody who had to struggle with this issue will test it and give me a report. Thanks!

[Lonestar]

Looking forward to next version.

I will try it and report back.

[Soner]

Ok guys,
here is the new version: http://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon/files

I integrated a brand new version of the GUI framework and do hope that it will not cause any further problems. Otherwise I will remove it completely from the tool and use another framework.
Now it must work without any compatibility mode! If it does not please report!

Thanks for testing!
If you like the tool please donate in order to help me to keep up the project.


Will there be a Linux version of RCon, too?
If there is demand I will start to develop a linux version. But first I have to make sure that the Windows version runs without any problems.

[larsiano]

Seems to work nicely! Thanks

[Shuravi-rnd]

I have Rcon 1.6 when i open a program a try to connect with server or other action in main menu. Rcon not answer and need to close the program. When i open it again rcon not anser and all repeat

[Telson_VBAU]

Just cant seem to connect, Can someone point me in the right direction please.

Rcon vertion 1.5

Game is hosted on UKGame windows server
v1.59.79384 (Windows, Dedicated)

Command line:
-mod=@<hidden> -config=server.cfg -ip=89.238.152.213 -port=2324 -profiles=profiles -netlog -BEpath=BattlEye\BEserver.cfg

BEserver.cfg is located within BattlEye folder in main Arma2 folder on server

BEserver.cfg contents:
RConPassword mypassword
MaxPing 200

In RCon tool:
i am using ip=89.238.152.213 port=2324 and the correct password that is in the BEserver.cfg which is in the BattlEye folder
but it says can not connect.

What am I missing?

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Did you check the BIKI page yet?
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BattlEye

[Telson_VBAU]

Yeh been over it all and cant see what I got wrong!

[blade73]

Hello Telson
BEserver.cfg shall be located in Profiles/batteyefolder
and you dont need that in our command line -BEpath=BattlEye\BEserver.cfg
I think you battleye turned on in our server.cfg
and if your connection dont work compare ipadr with gametracker we had diffrent ip`s

[$able]

Just cant seem to connect, Can someone point me in the right direction please.

Rcon vertion 1.5

Game is hosted on UKGame windows server
v1.59.79384 (Windows, Dedicated)

Command line:
-mod=@<hidden> -config=server.cfg -ip=89.238.152.213 -port=2324 -profiles=profiles -netlog -BEpath=BattlEye\BEserver.cfg

BEserver.cfg is located within BattlEye folder in main Arma2 folder on server

BEserver.cfg contents:
RConPassword mypassword
MaxPing 200

In RCon tool:
i am using ip=89.238.152.213 port=2324 and the correct password that is in the BEserver.cfg which is in the BattlEye folder
but it says can not connect.

What am I missing?

Two things:
- BEpath= shouldn't include "BEserver.cfg", only the path
- check if there is a BattlEye folder in your profiles directory, if so put the config file there

[larsiano]

Hi $able & BE crew. Is the BE Master server down?
This is what the CO server has been pumping out for the last hours (server still up), funny thing is the Arma2 server is just fine!!


12:46:03 BattlEye Server: Could not connect to BE Master
12:46:03 BattlEye Server: Update attempt failed

[armatech]

Hi $able & BE crew. Is the BE Master server down?
This is what the CO server has been pumping out for the last hours (server still up), funny thing is the Arma2 server is just fine!!

yer we have the same issue

[[HUD]Dorph]

Same here

[$able]

Hi $able & BE crew. Is the BE Master server down?
This is what the CO server has been pumping out for the last hours (server still up), funny thing is the Arma2 server is just fine!!

Fixed.

[3DArtist]

Can`t get it working , everytime i try to connect it says "Couldnt connect to a server"

Can please someone explain me step by step where i have to place wich file (fill in shortcut line) and how it works.
Thx :)

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Did you check the BIKI page?
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BattlEye

It is not 100%, yet should give some guidance.

[3DArtist]

Yep did exact the same thing as told , nothing works "Could not connect"
i fill in my local ip or my outside ip same shit.
I do have x64 bit windows.

[.kju [PvPscene]]

It the server in the same (local) network as your client PC?

[$able]

BE Server v1.117 adds the new BE command "missions" (similar to ArmA's #missions), that allows server admins to retrieve a list of mission files on their server and subsequently load a mission using the game's #mission command via BE RCon.

[Dwarden]

for everyone else, if you have reasonable feature requests (like missions was)

feel free to post them or mention to me (will see what can be done)

[GossamerSolid]

Reasonable Feature Request:

Reserve Slots?

Allows GUIDs in a file named reserved.cfg (or something like that) to be able to join the server if it's full and it'll kick somebody to make room (say highest ping?). Other reserve slot players should be protected from being kicked by another reserve slot player.

[[HUD]Dorph]

Feature: Being able to see the ingame chat in the be-console.

Bugs: The problem with over 40bans makes the "players" command not work, and BERcon looses connection to server.
: BeBanned clients trying to connect taking up slots as AI .

Edit: Sorry its not the "players" command that makes BERcon disconnect, its the "bans" command.

[Soner]

I am about to release a new version of ArmA 2 RCon. It will support the new missions command as well as a new black GUI skin.

[Soner]

Version 1.7 has been released!

The update contains the new missions/#mission command as you can see on the following screenshot.
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4355/arma2rcon17.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/96/arma2rcon17.jpg/)

Get the new version on dev-heaven.net (http://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon).

Sponsoring by dao.nu (http://dao.nu)

Thanks for testing!
If you like the tool please donate in order to help me to keep up the project.

[Kochleffel]

for everyone else, if you have reasonable feature requests (like missions was)

feel free to post them or mention to me (will see what can be done)

make it possible to not only log the GUID and timestamp to the banfile

add

GUID | TIMESTAMP | REASON | NAME (curret of ban) | IP (curret of ban)

[GossamerSolid]

Time and Date stamp please :)

[Kochleffel]

Time and Date stamp please :)

agreed, but please human readable

[$able]

Time and Date stamp please :)

Are you talking about the time when the ban was added?

[MJK-Ranger]

- Global database for automatically download global bans from Battleye.
Would be nice for new server admins to have that options to enable/download a global ban list :)

- Banned by IP, opportunity to add IP's, Singel IP and IP range to ban/kick

[$able]

- Global database for automatically download global bans from Battleye.
Would be nice for new server admins to have that options to enable/download a global ban list :)

Not going to happen at this point due to possibility of manipulation (yes, that's possible with PunkBuster as well). As I said in the past though, the community could always create their own global ban system similar to PunksBusted or PBBans using BE RCon (ban streaming).


- Banned by IP, opportunity to add IP's, Singel IP and IP range to ban/kick

IP bans already exist, just not range bans.

[MJK-Ranger]

Not going to happen at this point due to possibility of manipulation (yes, that's possible with PunkBuster as well). As I said in the past though, the community could always create their own global ban system similar to PunksBusted or PBBans using BE RCon (ban streaming).



IP bans already exist, just not range bans.

Thanks $able ;)

- IP range would be nice to ban
- Chat window, opportunity to send messages to your server, global and private
- Bandwidth Monitoring on each player (Traffic In/Out)

[GossamerSolid]

Are you talking about the time when the ban was added?

Yes.

Also what the other guy said, logging all chat would be great.

[Kochleffel]

Yes.

Also what the other guy said, logging all chat would be great.

thats already 3rd Party solved but not published yet.

here a video what it does to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pXz8Af7Ls

[larsiano]

Great update! Thx a lot for all the work, this makes live a little easier for server admins.

To add to the date and timestamp feature request i would like to know if its possible to add a PID in the recon tool. Now if someone reports there banned from the server i have a hard time searching for there account without it. And as far as i know players have no option to view there personal GUID.

[$able]

Great update! Thx a lot for all the work, this makes live a little easier for server admins.

To add to the date and timestamp feature request i would like to know if its possible to add a PID in the recon tool. Now if someone reports there banned from the server i have a hard time searching for there account without it. And as far as i know players have no option to view there personal GUID.

BE has no access to the PID right now, but the player name will be added to the ban list in the future.

And yes, a player can view his own BE GUID by entering "#beclient guid" while playing on a BE-enabled server.

[GossamerSolid]

Is there any chance that BE can start working directly from server connect rather than waiting till the player is "in game".

I was trying to GUID ban somebody yesterday that was sitting in the lobby (dirty script kiddie), but I couldn't because battlEye thinks he's not in the server yet (as it only registers after he loads the map).

[nuxil]

it has anoyed me a little as well.
but you could always use addBan [GUID]. if you know his guid on prehand. this way he will be autokicked when he joins the mission.
he cant do much harm sitting in the lobby except taking up a slot.

but it would be nice to see be work in lobby as well.

[eddieck]

it has anoyed me a little as well.
but you could always use addBan [GUID]. if you know his guid on prehand. this way he will be autokicked when he joins the mission.
he cant do much harm sitting in the lobby except taking up a slot.

but it would be nice to see be work in lobby as well.

It would be nice because it would eliminate the need for player ID bans at all. (Some people will come back in and spam chat or call a bunch of votes to kick someone or make themselves admin, after they're GUID banned.)

[RParker]

Hey all umm with the rcon console I seem to be having an issue..ever since I restarted our server last night the player list tab shows nothing at all you can't see players that are on the server..and under the info tab the info of the server is no longer listed or anything..your help would be very much appreciated

It seems to be showing player info in the little box under the refresh button

[[HUD]Dorph]

I think there are some troubles atm, cuz i cant see the serverinfo/players in yomas any more. So this i bet has nothing to do with rcon or yomas rather than a gamespy problem.

[RParker]

Ah okay, appreciate the fast response

[Mikobiko]

Our BE updated and has this issue too:


BattlEye RCon v0.91 beta
Copyright (C) 2010 by BattlEye Innovations
Check for updates on www.battleye.com


What do you want to do?
Start new session (N), Get help (H), Exit (E)
n

Enter the IP address or hostname of the game server to connect to:
x
Enter the game server's port:
2302
Enter the RCon password:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Logged in successfully

RCon admin #2 (x:63625) logged in
players

missions
Missions on server:
x.Takistan.pbo
Player #16 falcondue-ita (x:2304) - GUID: 3a75c4414df02e989454173d31a2e515
players

maxping
-1
Player #14 Alexey (x:2304) - GUID: ec27d3aee3563f5674845bfb419827c0
Player #22 Kolchin (x:2304) - GUID: 7989ff9f5388ab584ba8c5e31154a643
Player #30 Webb (x:2304) - GUID: 3382ed6c92923fea5c1eceb2177a3c22
bans

players

Obvious information x'd out for their privacy.

I have nudged this to Dwarden on IRC.

[Dwarden]

the tool will need to be updated to support packet challenges in query

[$able]

the tool will need to be updated to support packet challenges in query

This is unrelated to GameSpy, there were some changes in the BE RCon protocol. I will update the RCon tool shortly.

---------- Post added at 23:24 ---------- Previous post was at 23:17 ----------


Is there any chance that BE can start working directly from server connect rather than waiting till the player is "in game".

I was trying to GUID ban somebody yesterday that was sitting in the lobby (dirty script kiddie), but I couldn't because battlEye thinks he's not in the server yet (as it only registers after he loads the map).

I will talk to BIS regarding this as it would require integration changes. There were problems in the past, which is why it was never implemented like that in the first place.

[nuxil]

This is unrelated to GameSpy, there were some changes in the BE RCon
protocol. I will update the RCon tool shortly.

if there where changes to the rcon protocole. when will you release info about the changes??

[$able]

The updated BE RCon protocol specification can now be found here: http://www.battleye.com/downloads/BERConProtocol.txt.

The official BE RCon tool will be updated later today.

[GossamerSolid]

Hmmmm my servers don't seem to be able to be queried anymore, but they are definetly up.

[Mikobiko]

The updated BE RCon protocol specification can now be found here: http://www.battleye.com/downloads/BERConProtocol.txt.

The official BE RCon tool will be updated later today.

Does the new protocol fix the ban list not being returned if its a bigger list?

[$able]

Hmmmm my servers don't seem to be able to be queried anymore, but they are definetly up.

Are you talking about RCon?


Does the new protocol fix the ban list not being returned if its a bigger list?

Yes.

[Rexxenexx]

$able thanks for all the hard work! This is awesome and truly needed.

[GossamerSolid]

Are you talking about RCon?

No, I'm talking about querying the server.

http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/66.150.121.240:2310/
http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/66.150.121.240:2302/

I turned them off for a couple of days, turned them back on and they updated to latest BattlEye... now they report "dead" on gametracker when they are actually online and connectable ingame.


EDIT:

http://www.battleye.com/downloads/arma2oa/BEServer.dll

Still reports v1.118 in my server's console, but the ArmA2 version reports 1.120

[$able]

No, I'm talking about querying the server.

http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/66.150.121.240:2310/
http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/66.150.121.240:2302/

I turned them off for a couple of days, turned them back on and they updated to latest BattlEye... now they report "dead" on gametracker when they are actually online and connectable ingame.

Ok, wrong thread then. ;)

They are reported as "dead" because GameTracker cannot handle the different GameSpy query protocol enabled by BIS yesterday. This issue was discussed here: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=120552&page=8.

[$able]

The official BE RCon tool will be updated later today.

Sorry for the delay, here it is: BE RCon v0.92 - http://www.battleye.com/downloads/BERCon.exe.

[[HUD]Dorph]

Thx

The bans command with large banlist still does not work and disconnects bercon.

[$able]

Dorph;1994775']Thx

The bans command with large banlist still does not work and disconnects bercon.

Are you sure you are using v0.92?

[[HUD]Dorph]

Thats what it says:

BattlEye RCon v0.92 beta

[Mikobiko]

Our bans works fine now, 292 bans on file and it worked good.

Hoping the arma2 rcon on dev-heaven gets updated. Would love to have a GUI for other people in our unit.

[Mikobiko]

Wow,

So uhm, if you try to do "kick 1" or whatever a players name is,

We are getting a HARD crash on the server, whole thing goes down. Using the current BattlEye RCon v0.92 beta $able.

[nuxil]

Wow,

So uhm, if you try to do "kick 1" or whatever a players name is,

We are getting a HARD crash on the server, whole thing goes down. Using the current BattlEye RCon v0.92 beta $able.

i can confirm this. however. when i kick myself with my own rcon. this does not happen.. only with official rcon. which i find strange.

the error message:

The instruction at 0x10002cc1 referenced memory at 0x5c1519e7. The memory could not be read


----

[$able]

Wow,

So uhm, if you try to do "kick 1" or whatever a players name is,

We are getting a HARD crash on the server, whole thing goes down. Using the current BattlEye RCon v0.92 beta $able.

Fixed in BE Server v1.122. :)

It was an old bug though (that was only triggered in the new BE Server version for some reason), not related to RCon changes at all.

[Mikobiko]

Just kicked someone and server is still on :D Good work.

[=WBG=ati]

is there eny way to make sure that if someone is using the Loki Lost Keys and joins the server that it will detect it in battleeye that works on the MP side that it will detect the hack.
coz there is a hack out and it works!

[nuxil]

Afik Be is not designed to prevent client joining with addons. that people are able to join with cheat addons is a BIS security issue with the key system. not Be's fault.

[nuxil]

$able.
is there any chance you can increase the length of the ban/kick message players get when they get booted of the server. or is that something bis needs to do.
it should be increased to at least 64 chars so one can gve a proper reason.

kinda annoying only showing 1/2 the message. "(you have been kicked from this server becau)"

[[HUD]Dorph]

is there eny way to make sure that if someone is using the Loki Lost Keys and joins the server that it will detect it in battleeye that works on the MP side that it will detect the hack.
coz there is a hack out and it works!

verifysignatures=2; in your server.cfg - it has nothing to do with BE.
And loki is not a hack, its a tool for missionmakers. If servers run without
signatures on, they should expect to be ruined by players misusing tools like that.

[Soner]

Version 1.8.0 BETA of the RCon GUI has been released!

http://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon

It is now fully compatible with the new BattlEye protocol.

Sponsoring by dao.nu (http://dao.nu)

Thanks for testing!
If you like the tool please donate in order to help me to keep up the project.

[=WBG=ati]

hm seems that rcon cmd has a limit of bans in the txt.. if i type in bans it diconects and i have to reconnect!
is there a limit of bans in the txt ???

[nuxil]

i have the same problem. my ban file has 327 guids. when bans command is issued it disconnects.
i have not tested to see how many bans can be listed with bans command by removing line by line. got better things to do.

im using BERcon v.092 Beta. the official rcon tool.

soners rcon crashes too on big ban lists

[Soner]

Indeed there was a buffer size limitation in my RCon tool.
It is fixed now: http://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon

Thanks to Major General Stephen Carter for granting me access to his server.

@<hidden>=WBG=ati: Is there any problem with the RCon GUI or why aren't you using it?

[=WBG=ati]

Indeed there was a buffer size limitation in my RCon tool.
It is fixed now: http://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon

Thanks to Major General Stephen Carter for granting me access to his server.

@<hidden>=WBG=ati: Is there any problem with the RCon GUI or why aren't you using it?

na thers no problem with it :O) we use it... but we were wating till your out of beta ;)

[Tactical Destroyer]

ok i cant get this thing to work for nothing i host my own server and i need to know what the BEserver.cfg should look like and what port and ip to connect to

[byteslam]

ok i cant get this thing to work for nothing i host my own server and i need to know what the BEserver.cfg should look like and what port and ip to connect to
http://www.se-corps.de/?p=529
a full howto for Linux incl the be config part

[=WBG=ati]

is there going to be an update for battleeye out soon becouse that are some new metherds out to bypass the battleeye!

[ca655321]

I use custom paths for all config files and battleeye folder, I am unable to connect now but I was before I changed to custom paths. does your app connect directly to the port or does it matter what path is being used?

[$able]

I use custom paths for all config files and battleeye folder, I am unable to connect now but I was before I changed to custom paths. does your app connect directly to the port or does it matter what path is being used?

What exact custom path did you specify? Make sure the beserver.cfg is present there.

[ca655321]

yes sir, the BEserver.cfg is present and I know I typed the password correctly.

[$able]

yes sir, the BEserver.cfg is present and I know I typed the password correctly.

So again, what is the exact path you specified? Something is obviously wrong here.

[larsiano]

Yesterday i turned on signcheck on our server once again and one of our members was kicked by the system mssg: "gamehack 30" ..Wat does it mean is there a list of what then mean and should i be worried?

[$able]

Yesterday i turned on signcheck on our server once again and one of our members was kicked by the system mssg: "gamehack 30" ..Wat does it mean is there a list of what then mean and should i be worried?

There is no public list, but all violations that contain the word "hack" are positive detections, i.e. a real hack was used.

[[HUD]Dorph]

Wth ?? -Amazing update to battleye - chat in serverconsole - couldnt believe my eyes
Best suprise in a long time - thx a million now able to find out whats going on at server.

From console:
0:11:10 BattlEye Server: Update successfully completed. Restarting...
0:11:10 BattlEye Server: Initialized (v1.124)
0:13:43 BattlEye Server: (Side) player2: putin vous faite chier là...
0:13:55 BattlEye Server: (Side) player1: im sorry
0:14:02 BattlEye Server: (Side) player2:uai...
0:14:20 BattlEye Server: (Side) player3: pls write english
0:14:22 BattlEye Server: (Side) player2: si je te vois je vais être désolé aussi...
0:14:33 BattlEye Server: (Side) player3: amazing how frenchmen think everybody else speaks french :)
0:14:40 BattlEye Server: (Side) player2: toi t'es pas mieux...
0:14:48 BattlEye Server: (Side) player1: 3 jears french at school, thats enought
0:14:59 BattlEye Server: (Side) player3: if i speak english to a frenchmen he answers me in french, and thinks i'm stupid that dont

[Dwarden]

glad You like it :)

[nuxil]

nice work there ;)
many have been waiting for a offical chat logger

[7th_Serf]

Today none of my team could get onto our server. I opened up RCon and tried to join and noticed right away that I didn't have a GUID. I was then kicked by Battleye for not having a GUID as was everyone on my server.

What's the cause of this? I had to turn BE off to allow folks to get on the server.

[Anzu]

Today none of my team could get onto our server. I opened up RCon and tried to join and noticed right away that I didn't have a GUID. I was then kicked by Battleye for not having a GUID as was everyone on my server.

What's the cause of this? I had to turn BE off to allow folks to get on the server.

I'm having the same problem on two servers running ArmA 2. One is linux, other is windows. It just started today after the BE update apparently. I've tried manually updating the beserver.dll, beserver.so, and beclient.dll but no luck. Everyone, including myself, gets kicked for Invalid GUID or something. Of course, turning off BE solves this problem but that's not really a permanent solution for me.

On a sidenote, the MD5 sum I'm getting for the beserver.so from http://www.battleye.com/download.html is not matching what is on that web page...

[nomad_man]

Tylenol the same here. Md5sum that we've got
4848af91b47bb75a8eaed786562a096c beserver.so

And people are getting kicked left and right, with Invalid Guid. It appears to be happening to people who are running beta, but not to all of them.




0:07:16 BattlEye Server: Player #21 TAW_MASKED(-) has been kicked by BattlEye: Invalid GUID
NetServer::SendMsg: cannot find channel #498469466, users.card=21
NetServer: users.get failed when sending to 498469466
Message not sent - error 0, message ID = ffffffff, to 498469466 (TAW_MASKED)

[$able]

Is it correct that you guys are running ArmA 2 (not OA) servers?

I'm really sorry for this problem. I'm currently working on a fix for this.

[Anzu]

Tylenol the same here. Md5sum that we've got
4848af91b47bb75a8eaed786562a096c beserver.so

And people are getting kicked left and right, with Invalid Guid. It appears to be happening to people who are running beta, but not to all of them.
Yes that is the same MD5 checksum I have for my beserver.so . We are not running beta on either of our servers.


Is it correct that you guys are running ArmA 2 (not OA) servers?

I'm really sorry for this problem. I'm currently working on a fix for this.
Yes I am running ArmA 2 servers (ArmA 2 free compatible, non OA). Thanks for responding so quickly $able =) Let me know if you need any more information.

[$able]

I'm really sorry for this problem. I'm currently working on a fix for this.

The fix has just been released. Keep in mind that unfortunately you have to manually update your BE Server version for ArmA 2 from http://www.battleye.com/download.html.

Again, I'm really sorry that this happened. If there are still any problems, please let me know immediately.

[Anzu]

I can confirm the new beserver.so is working now. Many thanks $able and awesome work on the new features =]

[MiBF]

Problem with cyrillic nicknames after BE update. They can't connect to servers.

17:23:17 BattlEye Server: Player #25 ЛЕГЫЧ (-) has been kicked by BattlEye: Bad Player Name

[larsiano]

I have replaced the beserver.so on our Linux-A2 server as sugested. But some people still get kicked.
And he is not the only one.
Funny thing is the system removed the ' í ' from his name:

Sys log.:
18:49:15 Player Zel69 kicked off by BattlEye: Bad Player Name
18:49:15 Player Zel69 disconnected.

Real info (should have been):
18:49:15 Player Zelí69 kicked off by BattlEye: Bad Player Name
18:49:15 Player Zelí69 disconnected.

[$able]

The name-related kicks will be fixed shortly.

[nuxil]

there was/is a problem with arma. if players have chars that are outside the ascii range. some of the chars becomes invisible to players. meaning. ie. if i where to use a nick only haveing €€€€. my name would be blank for other. i guess this is a fix for that. so rename your player to Zeli69.
edit.: see able is working on it :p
but this it the best bug i ever seen :D

[Lonestar]

Same problem here with our tag: [PØ].

"Bad player name" error.

[$able]

The name-related kicks will be fixed shortly.

BE Server v1.126 has been released.

[.kju [PvPscene]]

It will update itself automatically on the server, right $able?

[larsiano]

It will update itself automatically on the server, right $able? Seems so but after the update, that said it was successful it crached the server during the restart of BE. Now all seems fine lets now wait for a player with a weird symbol in his name.:bounce3:

[[HUD]Dorph]

Yer same here - servercrash after update to 1.26 - but after restart all fine.

[nuxil]

Hello all.
I need some beta testers for my server rcon tool.. "Bec"
if your intrested you can download it from mysite. ibattle.org (http://www.ibattle.org)

[Lonestar]

It will update itself automatically on the server, right $able?

I'd like to know the answer too.

The issue is still there.

[eddieck]

I'd like to know the answer too.

The issue is still there.

I'm not sure if it auto-updated, but you can use the "version" command in RCon to check.

[Toxim]

Either its just me, or only Lobby & GLOBAL channels are broadcasted to BERCon on a Arrowhead server



BTW, would it be possible, that we could see the chat messages in the RCON tool in different colors?

[nuxil]

Either its just me, or only Lobby & GLOBAL channels are broadcasted to BERCon on a Arrowhead server



BTW, would it be possible, that we could see the chat messages in the RCON tool in different colors?

yes and no..
global and lobby gets broadcasted to server all the time.
but for side chat to get broadcasted and logged . players on your side is needed.
vehicle chat only gets broadcasted and logged if players are in your vehicle. so on..

[Lonestar]

I'd like to know the answer too.

The issue is still there.

Problem fixed.

The server didn't automatically update because no player could join.

Manually updating beserver.so solved it.

[nomad_man]

Sable, it would be nice to have the ability to send messages to players via BErcon, i understand it's not a very simple request to implement, but it's a nice to have feature :)

[larsiano]

I think the BE server/client version got updated to (v1.127) and now some people get kicked by BE : mssg: You Were kicked off the game. BattlEye Unknown Game Version. This seems to happen to users all with CO 1.6 with or without a beta patch loaded.

http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq141/larsiano/YouWerekickedoffthegameBattlEyeUnknownGameVersion.jpg

Edit:

-Manual update of OA BE client DL from BE.com = no sollution

[YaDadsPimp]

I am having the same problem but with the 1.148 client BE update and server build 1.129. I have joined with 1.147 and the server said updating to 1.148 and it said complete and i still get kicked for Unkown Game Version and im on the latest build.

[$able]

I think the BE server/client version got updated to (v1.127) and now some people get kicked by BE : mssg: You Were kicked off the game. BattlEye Unknown Game Version. This seems to happen to users all with CO 1.6 with or without a beta patch loaded.

http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq141/larsiano/YouWerekickedoffthegameBattlEyeUnknownGameVersion.jpg

Edit:

-Manual update of OA BE client DL from BE.com = no sollution

Which exact game build are you using?

[$able]

I am having the same problem but with the 1.148 client BE update and server build 1.129. I have joined with 1.147 and the server said updating to 1.148 and it said complete and i still get kicked for Unkown Game Version and im on the latest build.

Wrong thread.

Anyway, please read this: http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost.php?p=2083999&postcount=254.

[Dwarden]

please update game to latest version , final version of 1.60...
You are most likely using some Release Candidate 1.60 which are unsupported

[Soner]

Hey guys,
I am back and working on the next RCon GUI version right now. The known kick/ban issue is going to be fixed and I am also about to implement the new chat interface (see https://dev-heaven.net/issues/29116 ).
Any ideas on how to realize this new feature for the GUI?

[larsiano]

Nice to hear that i hope the missing information problem will also be solved so that we can fully enjoy the tool once again. For the chat function maybe you could use a seperate tab (like players, bans and info tab) just displaying all the ingame chat and admin chat (in different colors)?

[Soner]

The new beta version (1.8.2) released!

I fixed the annoying kick/ban bug and added a simple ingame chat feature (only global for now, private chat is planned for the final version).

The list of donators will be added to the final version.

Thanks for testing!

Download: https://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon/files



Nice to hear that i hope the missing information problem will also be solved so that we can fully enjoy the tool once again.
See https://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon/news .
At the moment I have no time to deal with the new protocol..:(

[larsiano]

The chat function seems to work just fine thx allot for the update. Next is testing the kick/ban function but there are no bad players at the moment :) Maybe it’s possible to make that RCon window resizable? And if you sort the players on ping/ms the list will pop back to its original form within 5/10 seconds maybe this function isn’t really doing what it should.

[armatech]

love the new update cant wait for direct messages to single players

[Soner]

So do you guys think that it's ok how i implemented the global chat feature? No need for an additional tab?

[larsiano]

It works fine as it is but I think a separate tab would do the trick better or a changeable size of the app so that both fields can be made big enough at the same time. btw is there a way to change the player list updating? This seems to be only 10secs now and maybe this can be increased to a higher number a little to 30 / 60 secs? Or with an update button on the menu tab that would be even more awesome!

[Soner]

Yes, you can change the update time by editing the settings.ini file.


[General]
AutoRefreshEnable = 1
AutoRefreshTime = 10

[Soner]

Hey guys,
the new version is out!
https://dev-heaven.net/versions/1268

Hint: Right click on a player name in order to send him a private message.

[larsiano]

very nice, seems to work perfectly. And the window is now resizable too, great feature! Would it be possible to save the 'last known' window size in the .cfg on exit? :rolleyes:

[Soner]

Today I finished version 1.8.3 FINAL.
The tool is now capable of storing the GUI data in the settings.ini (Not only the window size..). Finally I also added the list of donators (see Info-> About).

Have fun!

[larsiano]

Works like a charm! Maybe its an idea to get Sickboy or Kyu to help out with the new protocol they seem to know a lot about it already. Thx for the support!

[nuxil]

btw Soner. connecting to 127.0.0.1 still dosent work.

[Soner]

Oh yeah,
I forgot to fix this. Sorry.

Any other suggestions or requests for the next version?

[larsiano]

Dont know if possible already or if it has been discussed but.: Is there a way to directly login to the server by changing a shortcut link? And maybe it would be nice if it would show somewhere what server you are connected to right now (for multi-server monitor) and with what other admins you are doing this (maybe even with direct admin > admin chat?).

[Soner]

>Is there a way to directly login to the server by changing a shortcut link?
You mean via command line parameter?

Sounds good! But unfortunately I am not able to query whether other admins are also present (limited by BE).

---------- Post added at 04:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:56 PM ----------

Hey guys,
I have just tested the RCon tool on Windows 8 Consumer Preview and ...well....it works! :D
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6373/arma2rconwin8.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/404/arma2rconwin8.jpg/)

[Kochleffel]

is it possible to get back the score and stuff its ?? since the gamespy update and looks weired.

-block direct chat when player is on lobby
- block chat if all player´s are in lobby.

[nuxil]

-block direct chat when player is on lobby
- block chat if all player´s are in lobby.

Waste of time if you ask me.. this will be working in next arma patch afik. so removing something that will need to be reimplemented againt isnt best solution imo.
just dont send msg to players in lobby as they cant see them anyway. ;p

[mike187]

Is there a way to use Rcon on Linux even via shell? I couldn't find anything on the forum.

btw, thanks so much for the gui Soner!

[Defiance44]

Pfft... "very easy to use". I followed every tutorial here and on Bohemia Wiki on how to set up this RCON tool to a server.... this tool still can't connect to the server.

Here is my BEserver.cfg file:
RConPassword jacob

Very simple :)

Here is where it is at on my server:
/64.x.x.x2_port_xxxx/Expansion/BattlEye/BEserver.cfg

[Ch3v4l13r]

I am currently having several problems using Rcon, which is a great program btw.

My biggest problem is that Rcon keeps crashing after several minutes. Another problem is that Rcon crashes if i send private message to certain people. It also seems i cant kick anyone, i need to use the in-game option for that

Some side info:
Server is running Linux and the mod on the server is Project Reality. My own system is running Win7 64 and i am using Rcon 1.8.3

[Soner]

Hey,
I think I found the bug making the tool crash. But unfortunately I am not able to test it intensely as I do not own any servers and the one i got access to is sometimes empty.
It would really help to get access to a popular server with much traffic.

Sorry for the inconvenience but without the right testing environment I am not able to avoid those problems.

[larsiano]

Our server is now only used from 18.00/24.00u CET so its not real bizzy also. But if non of the DayZ admins will help you just send me a PM or leave a message on our website!

[maikfl]

hej
i want to run the tool on the windows server together with my OA Server, but the problem is the host adress. localhost, 127.0.0.1, my own server ip. what would be the correct setting to run it

thanks allot if anyone can help me

[larsiano]

have you setup a BEServer.cfg file in the BE working folder ( C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ArmA 2\BattlEye)like the manual said? with RConPassword xxx in it?

[maikfl]

yes i setup a BEServer.cfg file (i uses my profiles folder). it is also marked as active when the server is runing. i can connect from any PC at home, but i cant connect directly at the server when i start the tool there. i also seems the server is crashing when i use it there / or try it to often, but could be a mission crash (we tried allot at this moment)

[stice]

Hey,

i'm using rcon and it works as it should.
But i would like to be able to run commands from a file, i.e. make it executable.

The login from a .bat file works, but how can i automatically execute commands after the login?

Is there a source of the rcon? Or any libs working with rcon?

Thanks,
stice

[$able]

yes i setup a BEServer.cfg file (i uses my profiles folder). it is also marked as active when the server is runing. i can connect from any PC at home, but i cant connect directly at the server when i start the tool there. i also seems the server is crashing when i use it there / or try it to often, but could be a mission crash (we tried allot at this moment)

So connecting to 127.0.0.1 doesn't work?



Hey,

i'm using rcon and it works as it should.
But i would like to be able to run commands from a file, i.e. make it executable.

The login from a .bat file works, but how can i automatically execute commands after the login?

Is there a source of the rcon? Or any libs working with rcon?

Thanks,
stice

That's not possible right now, but something like this might be added in the future.

[armatech]

He might wanna try bec

Sent from my LT18i using Tapatalk 2

[stice]

He might wanna try bec

Sent from my LT18i using Tapatalk 2

BEC doesnt work, i always get the "for security reasons you should move the bec folder out of the OA folder" message.
Even if i moved it to c:/bec.

[nuxil]

stice then you didnt use the latest version 1.44, that issue is gone now.
as armatech said. you can use bec, but you have to use the scheudler system, altho you will not be able to send the wannted command on connections. minimum 1 min delay with it,

[stice]

okay, thank you.
I will try the new version :)

[maikfl]

So connecting to 127.0.0.1 doesn't work?






no, 127.0.0.1 doesnt work :-/

[nuxil]

no, 127.0.0.1 doesnt work :-/

are you using the gui or console app ?
$able has nothing to do with the gui app. thats soners work.
the console app works fine with 127.0.0.1.
last time i tried the gui app. it had no suuport for using 127.0.0.1, maybe it still dont

[Soner]

Hey guys,
version 1.8.4 featuring many improvements is out! I replaced the whole network lib using a more reliable and stable one now. Also some internal core changes have been applied (the whole network interaction is running in a separate thread now). Due to these changes the tool should be more stable from now on. I also added some nice features like displaying the server info in the titlebar as well as in the new status bar.

Download: https://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon/files

[wrongbottle]

hmmm dont work for me and i dont know its my server but it says "could not connect"

[B1n4ry]

Hello people,

we are using the latest battleye on a Linux (debian 6.0) server.
I'am using the new "ArmA 2 RCon GUI 1.8.5 BETA II".

Problem is, that i can't see the Score, Death and Team (kills?)
There is only a "?" for every player.

Is it because of Linux, or did i setup anything wrong?

[Forza971sbh]

So connecting to 127.0.0.1 doesn't work?


(...)

I confirm this, curently running a test server and can't connect from the pc running the ARMA OA server (but can connect from a virtual machine hosted on it :) )

[bros]

Trying to get it set up on my server running Windows Server 2008.

Contents of beserver.cfg (Located in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\ArmA 2 OA\BattlEye):


RConPassword test


Using TA2DST to launch the server, I check the box to initialize BattlEye, everything goes smoothly:
17:28:29 Dedicated host created.
17:28:31 BattlEye Server: Initialized (v1.151)
17:28:31 Host identity created.

However, when I try either the BERcon.exe or the RCON GUI Tool, I get the same error:
Could not connect! (case of GUI) and Could not connect to server (in case of BERcon.exe)

I'm using BERcon.exe/RCON GUI on my personal computer, trying to connect to the game server. People can connect to the server and play on it, but admins cannot administrate by RCON

[dragonsyr]

same as above.......coult not connect...i m using ta2dst 1.4 also... any help?

Edit: i try everything and still cant connect...

i found 3 possible places that maybe may put the beserver.cfg.
i found 2 in arma2 install folder,one is on root folder called battleye (this folder i cant remember if i put it there (comfirm someone that the folder exists from the initial install by default)), second is in expansion folder.
the third is on appdata folder.

i try all the places , with BEServer.cfg and beserver.cfg. confirm someone for sure what is the right cfg name (with capitals or not? )

the only command in the cfg is "RConPassword test" without quotes ofcourse.....

nothing.

i try over lan without firewalls..........still cant connect.

i m running the battleye option from TADST . the battleye working on my server and initialized , i can connect on my server lan or wan and im playing , all good.

when the beserver application opens ,read the cfg without a specific command like "-beserver.cfg"?

[BlackSheep]

Hello people,

we are using the latest battleye on a Linux (debian 6.0) server.
I'am using the new "ArmA 2 RCon GUI 1.8.5 BETA II".

Problem is, that i can't see the Score, Death and Team (kills?)
There is only a "?" for every player.

Is it because of Linux, or did i setup anything wrong?

Same here :confused:

[Soner]

Hey guys,
the new version (1.8.5 RC) is out! It is now up to 10 times faster than the old version (refreshing, loading ban list etc.). See https://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon/roadmap for detailed update information. Have fun!
(All who have donated can be sure that they will get the version without the popup window)



Problem is, that i can't see the Score, Death and Team (kills?)
There is only a "?" for every player.
This feature was disabled due to some problems with the new protocol ArmA 2 is using.

[larsiano]

Looking good sofar, thanks for the update!

BTW maybe this is already possible: Im looking for a text or chat rollback / word wrap function to make all the text display even with a smaller application window. I have no idea if this is possible allready?

[Soner]

Version 1.8.5 Final is out!
The annoying crash bug has been fixed once for all.

Download: https://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon/files


BTW maybe this is already possible: Im looking for a text or chat rollback / word wrap function to make all the text display even with a smaller application window. I have no idea if this is possible allready?
No, that's not possible.

[-=BW=-Raiden]

Hello:
I need help. I´m using ARMA RCON to server admin, but suege a doubt
when I use the command LOADSCRIPTS where I have to save the script.txt ***to charge what?
Thanks

[Webby]

Ive been trying to get this to work for ages could someone make a video tutorial, I read the tutorial in the forums but did not come in much help,I use Tophe's dedicated server tool. thanks

[kamilfranke]

Yeah, I also cannot connect via this tool. Always "could not connect" message. Tried with localhost, 127.0.0.1 and my internet IP. Ran out of ideas. Is there a tutorial on how to set up this thing? I got the .exe in my server's BE working directory, BEserver.cfg in every needed place.

[Psyth]

This "could not connect" seems to be a new global error. I've used Rcon GUI for months on multiple servers but since the update that was released on the 15th of AUG, Rcon seems to have been broken. It's not a server side issue. It's an Rcon issue. All your files are in the right place, the tool is just broken until the developers fix it.

[dragonsyr]

This "could not connect" seems to be a new global error. I've used Rcon GUI for months on multiple servers but since the update that was released on the 15th of AUG, Rcon seems to have been broken. It's not a server side issue. It's an Rcon issue. All your files are in the right place, the tool is just broken until the developers fix it.

and how the others here can manage the servers if the tool is broken...........only our tool is broken????

edit: i try any version and i get could not connect . the files that need is in the right place .........

[James222]

$able can we get a command line utility for BE RCON? ex: bercon -ip=127.0.0.1 -p=2302 -pw=tehsecretss123 "say -1 Hi players!"

[Soner]

Hey guys,
version 1.8.6 BETA is out! And this one is a big update featuring a new GUI and other useful stuff.

Features at a glance:


- Better network code to avoid connection issues
- Custom commands
- Auto-Reconnect
- Display IP bans
- loadEvents
- Banlist sorting
- IP location finder
- Improved GUI
- Copy selected line of the log control
- Enable grid style of the list controls
- Command to clear the log
- Display Score/Deaths player information (Thanks to ArMaTeC for his help)


http://solicus.net/Themes/solicus/Images/arma2rcon.jpg

Information on how to use some of the new "hidden" features will be posted on the twitter and facebook page (see the RCon tool for links).

And now...enjoy! :)

https://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon/files

[zooloo75]

In the new version, after the nag screen, the RCON stops responding. I found a fix though - delete the db file in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\ArmA 2 RCon

I guess it's some incompatibility with older files.

[HunterUK]

a vast improvement Sonar, no problems at this moment.
Well done keep up the good work :)

[BliND123]

Hey Soner, great program you got there. I noticed on the Issues section of your ArmA 2 RCon GUI Projects page that you have "Extended Chat Features." What does that entail? I have a hosted server so can't get BEC (Battleye Extended Controls) on our server and trying to find a way to get scheduled messages to show up automatically when server is restarting to warn players. Is there a possibility that you could add something like that? Haven't been able to find any other way to do it besides BEC or typing them in manually with your ArmA 2 RCon.

[inf25th]

Soner, we just love your ArmA 2 RCon GUI 1.8 and are learning how to use it. I have a question.... Where is the log stored on the server and what is it called?

[jimbouk1977]

I also seem to be one of the many that cant connect Ive tried using External ip , internal ip & 127.0.0.1 with default 2302 port can not connect using any of these what am i getting wrong here

I use the Steam version of the game (so Arma II & Aram II OA are in different places) is that causing this issue ?. :confused:

Can some one help all that seem to be getting this issue if i get told how to fix it i will make a YouTube video teaching others the errors of our ways :dd: .

T.I.A
jim

[Party3AH]

Thanks from Arma-Tushino SG community!
AutoReconnect option is very useful. Nice idea with colour separated windows, reading became much more easy.

[Soner]

a vast improvement Sonar, no problems at this moment.
Well done keep up the good work
Thanks, mate! Cheers!


Hey Soner, great program you got there. I noticed on the Issues section of your ArmA 2 RCon GUI Projects page that you have "Extended Chat Features." What does that entail? I have a hosted server so can't get BEC (Battleye Extended Controls) on our server and trying to find a way to get scheduled messages to show up automatically when server is restarting to warn players. Is there a possibility that you could add something like that? Haven't been able to find any other way to do it besides BEC or typing them in manually with your ArmA 2 RCon.
Just wait for the update. :D
Basically the BE log and the chat messages will be separated. I am also going to integrate the ingame chat colours. I think it will be great! As to your request I have to say that I planned to add extended log features, too. So stay tuned mate!


Soner, we just love your ArmA 2 RCon GUI 1.8 and are learning how to use it. I have a question.... Where is the log stored on the server and what is it called?
It is stored in your local AppData folder.


Can some one help all that seem to be getting this issue if i get told how to fix it i will make a YouTube video teaching others the errors of our ways.
I am going to help you. Just mail me.


Thanks from Arma-Tushino SG community!
Thanks, guys! Do not forget to thank armatec as well as he has been a great help to me (bug fixing, stability issues und GS 3 implementation).

[dcthehole]

I have a Linux server box runnning Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. I decided to run Windows 2012 Server Edition via KVM until linux binaries are stable. I am having trouble setting up Rcon can someone please help me?

[Soner]

Hey guys,
version 1.8.6 Final has been released! Now featuring the Extended Chat Module!

Changelog: https://dev-heaven.net/versions/1363
Download: http://battlewarden.net/downloads/

[FragUK]

Im Running a Dedicated server using the TA2DST can i get the Arma 2 Rcon or BECron working with it and how do i set it up im a noob to this

[larsiano]

I've been having some problems with BE lately on our server:

22:43:42 BattlEye Server: Update successfully completed. Restarting...
22:43:42 BattlEye Server: Initialized (v1.168)

This message get repeated every 30 seconds i think
What usually worked was replacing the file manually after downloading from battleye.com. I did just this but after a restart of the server nothing changed. I've also made sure i replaced the right file (replaced them all) due to the 'old' file being locked by the running server and replaced it while the server was shut down. Maybe i'm missing something or should also replace the client file to make it work?

[Pricey0804]

Hi there, I was just wondering, is it possible to do an IP Range Ban on an ArmA 2 Server? Or do I have to type out all the IPs separately into the bans.txt? Any help is greatly appreciated, I have been googling for days now, and no website has my answer, so I have decided to ask here. We have a hacker who keeps changing his IP within a range cos it's dynamic, so for us to slow him down a bit more, we wish to just do a full IP range ban. We know the possible consequences of what this may incur for other players, but we're ready to deal with that. Thanks in Advance!

Pricey

[dragonsyr]

I've been having some problems with BE lately on our server:

22:43:42 BattlEye Server: Update successfully completed. Restarting...
22:43:42 BattlEye Server: Initialized (v1.168)

This message get repeated every 30 seconds i think
What usually worked was replacing the file manually after downloading from battleye.com. I did just this but after a restart of the server nothing changed. I've also made sure i replaced the right file (replaced them all) due to the 'old' file being locked by the running server and replaced it while the server was shut down. Maybe i'm missing something or should also replace the client file to make it work?

are you sure that the battleye exe have admin rights to run? if i understand right , if you put the file manualy, you are ok, and if the battleye updates the file you have problems.
maybe this is the problem.

[=WBG=cpt_custard]

We are running a hosted server with full FTP and TCAmin access. But no matter what I do I cant connect is there a way to get help with this please.