battleWarden.net - RCon for ArmA & DayZ!

[soner 12]

Hello Community,

 

being the first RCon tool that has ever been created for DayZ & ArmA, battleWarden is used by thousands of people word-wide and enjoys a high reputation among DayZ and ArmA administrators today. It revolutionized game administration for BI titles and also massively influenced other rcon tools available.

If you really want to do serious & professional server administration, start using battleWarden today and be part of a large fanbase!

 

Your support counts!

 

 

Homepage: http://battleWarden.net

Fan- & Support-Page: https://www.facebook.com/solicusoftware

 

 

Features at a glance (battleWarden):

 

• Supports DayZ, ArmA 2 & ArmA 3
• Easy to use server manager
• Local player database with SQLite support
• Ingame chat suppport
• Comprehensive ban support
• Fully compatible BE client
• Unicode Support
• Support of administrator names [NEW]
• Does NOT depend on .NET or other runtime environments
• Automation of server logs
• Custom actions & triggers
• Scripting Interface for advanced tasks

 

Full feature list: http://battlewarden.net/features/feature-list

 

In addition to that, the Premium version supports battleWarden:Spy enabling you to define own message triggers.





This thread can be considered to be the official place for update news, handy tips and bug reports.

Edited October 22, 2015 by soner

[Dwarden 1125]

great tool, stickied

[soner 12]

Thanks. :)

[OCNDayZ 1]

Looks good, feels nimble, great update. I like it, thanks! I really enjoy the ban reason drop down, it'll allow our staff to issue bans uniformly.

Requests:

Change players display to players of (ie. Players: OnlinePlayers#/TotalSlots#)

Display total bans similar to players

Option to choose between local player db or a server side db

Ability to block certain commands (ie. shutdown) from specific admins.

- BEC allows us to disable commands for specific admin groups. I just wish an RCON would utilize these groups. We have multiple admins but I'd like the ability to choose what functionality they have.

Thanks again!

[Hud Dorph 22]

wow - very nice thx..

[RSGabriel 1]

Report: When typing into the chat tab, if the text tab (and possibly the log tab) update, focus is lost from the textbox control.

Request: Open source this tool.

[soner 12]

Thanks for your kind words!

Change players display to players of (ie. Players: OnlinePlayers#/TotalSlots#)

Display total bans similar to players

Option to choose between local player db or a server side db

Ability to block certain commands (ie. shutdown) from specific admins.

- BEC allows us to disable commands for specific admin groups. I just wish an RCON would utilize these groups. We have multiple admins but I'd like the ability to choose what functionality they have.

Some of these features will be available in the next version. As to your last request I have to say that this is not as easy as you might think since BE itself does not support that. This kind of feature would require a "proxy" server providing an authorization system. So I would have to redesign the whole RCon client from scratch.

Report: When typing into the chat tab, if the text tab (and possibly the log tab) update, focus is lost from the textbox control.

Yeah, I have been experiencing this too. But only sometimes.

[Zumbi 1]

Thank you for the great work Soner, this is a really awesome tool! :)

Report: When scrolling through the player list with a high number of players, sometimes the name at the top or bottom of the list starts repeating over and over again in the direction you're scrolling, then that section of the list disappears. The problem is fixed by reloading the player list, but it can be annoying when you have lots of players connected and are scrolling back and forth. http://imageshack.us/a/img24/8228/listbug.gif

Report: When trying to load a banlist with over 650 bans, the connection crashes every time. Auto-reconnect works like a charm but the banlist is unloadable. I can add and remove bans but can't actually view the list. Had this same problem with regular BERcon.

If you want, I can PM you my server's rcon login info to check it out yourself.

[soner 12]

Hey Zumbi,

thanks for the reports.

Report: When scrolling through the player list with a high number of players, sometimes the name at the top or bottom of the list starts repeating over and over again in the direction you're scrolling, then that section of the list disappears. The problem is fixed by reloading the player list, but it can be annoying when you have lots of players connected and are scrolling back and forth. http://imageshack.us/a/img24/8228/listbug.gif

This can be considered to be a rendering issue caused when the list is being updated. When you see the busy symbol on the right it is better not to scroll. Another option would be increasing AutoRefreshTime in the settings.ini file.

Report: When trying to load a banlist with over 650 bans, the connection crashes every time. Auto-reconnect works like a charm but the banlist is unloadable. I can add and remove bans but can't actually view the list. Had this same problem with regular BERcon.

If you want, I can PM you my server's rcon login info to check it out yourself.

Yeah, that would be great. Please send me a mail: http://battlewarden.net/contact/ with the necessary information.

[streak 1]

Great job. Love this Rcon Tool. Keep up the great work. I will be showing my love by Donating today. Thanks again for the hard work.

[soner 12]

Hey guys,

I am about to finish version 1.8.7 Beta and just wanted to let you know that it is essential for every RCon user to follow either the facebook or twitter page:

http://www.facebook.com/solicusoftware

http://twitter.com/solicus

There are several tips available making the tool even more powerful than you might think.

@streak: Thanks, mate. Check your mails. ;)

[i76 1]

Very nice Soner :)

Large ban list now shows up YAH!

ty :)

[thorhal 10]

gj Soner,

enjoying it so far, I can confirm that my huge banlist gets loaded with the new beta.

I would like to request TimeStamps for the chat though, I could go through the logs to find out the time but having it right there would be really nice.

[Prodavec 10]

1. It is not coded using .NET Shitwork, has small memory usage and CPU time - COOL!

2. It saves settings locally in settings.ini with text format - COOL

3. It has compact and fast UI - COOL

Thanks a lot.

PS I guess there's a problem. It binds the port 2302 which used by the game server by default. Is it possible to use different UDP port?

Edited October 2, 2012 by Prodavec

[ryahn 1]

I love your work. Been using this for a while now and it has come a long way. From crashing when loading bans to now a nice GUI. <3<3<3

[soner 12]

Thank you for your comments, guys!

@thorhal: noted for the next final version! ;)

@Prodavec: Hehe. Although I like .NET I would not use it for this kind of application. As to the port problem: I will have a look at this.

@Ryahn: Yeah. It had some problems in the past due to lack of motivation and time but a new era has begun. :D

[dethica 2]

connecting through localhost still broken?

[soner 12]

According to this demonstration:

it should work. However there are still admins reporting the same problem. I will have a closer look at this.

[soner 12]

Hey guys,

I have just managed to finish and release the new version of battleWarden:RCon. Maybe a bit too late for a XMas release. :D

The new version mainly contains important bug fixes (e.g. chat field stealing focus from other controls) and few new features. It is now possible to switch between 2 network libraries/modules since some users have been experiencing connection issues with the one battleWarden have been using up to now.

So if you can not connect to your server or if you have any other network related issues, please edit the settings.ini file and change NetworkModule to 1.

Detailed information about changes: https://dev-heaven.net/projects/rcon/roadmap

Download: http://battlewarden.net/downloads/

[Jetkar 1]

Great piece of kit Soner !!

[TW_ 2]

Hi Sonar could you check your PM's

Many Thanks

[WalkerDown 1]

Looking forward to the 1.0 version.. the current one has some annoying bugs that seems to be solved. Thank you for this nice tool.

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It looks like you need the pro version to recover the DB now? :O ...sending a PM...

[TW_ 2]

Hi Sonar,

Is there a premium version for V1.0 available? If so could you please PM me for details as i am a supporter.

Many Thanks,

TW_

[zach72 1]

Is there a way to specify the difficulty setting when you load a new mission with this tool? It seems to default back to normal, even if the server is set to expert.

[Rypticus 1]

Does this work with linux?