Advanced In-Game Admin and Ban Enforcer - AdKats

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

If i try add admin to plugin then i get this message is symbols end of name making this trouble?

 

 

 

https://myrcon.net/recovered/img/129128_RY6KSyx.jpg_2

Soldier names in battlefield must be 16 or less characters, and only contain alphanumerics, dashes, and underscores. All other names are invalid. The AdKats user list follows the same restrictions.

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Originally Posted by dmmaciag*:

 

@ColColonCleaner

 

Woke up today to find adkats banlist completely gone. All current and previous bans appear to be gone as if they've never existed. Player reputation is apparently affected as well however infraction points seem to be fine. Any idea what would cause this? I'm the only one with direct access to the database but I've not had Internet as I've been moving so I haven't fat fingered anything. Any ideas?

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Originally Posted by Hodor*:

 

Interesting, some player's stats are coming through but others aren't. So this doesn't have to do with the same Linux issue I saw before. I still don't know where in that section this error is coming from. Open a ticket and i'll examine it closer now that i know it's not from the OS.

Done https://github.com/AdKats/AdKats/issues/839

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

@ColColonCleaner

 

Woke up today to find adkats banlist completely gone. All current and previous bans appear to be gone as if they've never existed. Player reputation is apparently affected as well however infraction points seem to be fine. Any idea what would cause this? I'm the only one with direct access to the database but I've not had Internet as I've been moving so I haven't fat fingered anything. Any ideas?

You are actually the second person to have this happen. However, there is nothing in the plugin that can remove records from that table.

 

Questions:

 

Does your adkats_records_main table still have the ban records (command actions 7 and 8 if i remember correctly, you can confirm this in adkats_commands table) but the records in the adkats_banlist table are gone?

 

Are you running the bfadmincp by prophet?

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Originally Posted by sammad143*:

 

How do I set next map via ingame commands? For example the server is running metro and I want the next map to be locker, how do I set it in-game?

Also how can I check player reports in bfadmincp? the same reports that we find ingame with /reportlist

Is there any option to replace the admin name in ban/kick messages with Admin1, Admin2 etc, so that I can know who kicked whom but it remains a mystery to the kicked player.

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Originally Posted by dmmaciag*:

 

You are actually the second person to have this happen. However, there is nothing in the plugin that can remove records from that table.

 

Questions:

 

Does your adkats_records_main table still have the ban records (command actions 7 and 8 if i remember correctly, you can confirm this in adkats_commands table) but the records in the adkats_banlist table are gone?

 

Are you running the bfadmincp by prophet?

There are only three records showing command 8 (permaban) in the adkats_records_main table as they were issued this morning after the wipe and adkats_banlist is completely empty. We don't have a backup of the database (kicking myself for that one) and apparently all the AdKats settings reset as well. Is our only option wiping and starting fresh with daily backups or is there something we can run to preserve the integrity of the database?

 

And yes, we are running BFAdminCP by Prophet.

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Originally Posted by Dwel13R*:

 

Having an issue where loadout enforce doesnt seem to be working. I get this:

 

[AdKatsLRT] EXCEPTION-2042-D-ReceiveOnlineSoldiers-PlayerListing39: [Error while receiving online soldiers.][system.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at PRoConEvents.AdKatsLRT.ReceiveOnlineSoldiers(Strin g[] parameters)]

 

Thanks in advance

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Having an issue where loadout enforce doesnt seem to be working. I get this:

 

[AdKatsLRT] EXCEPTION-2042-D-ReceiveOnlineSoldiers-PlayerListing39: [Error while receiving online soldiers.][system.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at PRoConEvents.AdKatsLRT.ReceiveOnlineSoldiers(Strin g[] parameters)]

 

Thanks in advance

Please ask any further LRT questions in that thread, not this one.

 

All you have to do is update your LRT plugin to the latest version for that issue to go away.

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Originally Posted by Dete96*:

 

Hi!

Are you sure you run the newest version of AdKatsLRT? We had the same issue until we updated to 2.0.6.6. Now everything is fine!

 

 

Edit: Sorry, seven minutes too late!

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Originally Posted by Locheed*:

 

Any ideas why Adkat is spamming "Adkatsinstancecheck..." text to Rconnet's chat? Didn't find any info about it. :/

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Originally Posted by hit757*:

 

I'm seeing a pattern here, it's just a load of invalid player names that it can't find. []V[]orpheus is not a valid player name. Now to find out how a player name like that is getting into the system.

Hi,

For the first time same thing happened to me. Someone with invalid player name joined my server and now I can't get rid of those errors. I tried to backup sql database, stop AdKats and "PRoCon Chat, GUID, Stats...", then remove that player from DB (including thousands rows in adkats_records_debug table), and start those plugins again (during gameplay). Didn't try to restart Procon Layer yet, I'll restart everything when server is empty.

 

In case you haven't predicted all bad characters:

Code:

[21:18:55 64] [AdKats] EXCEPTION-6800-FetchPlayerBattlelogInformation-BattlelogComm59: [Could not find persona ID for -BA-GipE>>>]
[21:18:58 64] [AdKats] EXCEPTION-6800-FetchPlayerBattlelogInformation-BattlelogComm59: [Could not find persona ID for -BA-GipE>>>]
[21:19:06 22] [AdKats] EXCEPTION-6800-FetchPlayerBattlelogInformation-BattlelogComm59: [Could not find persona ID for -BA-GipE>>>]

I still got this even if mysqldump |grep -i GipE shows only lines from debug table. Where else can AdKats see this guy's name after cleaning DB?

 

...

 

Ok, after restarting Procon layer problem disappeared. So must have been some cache in it.

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Originally Posted by sammad143*:

 

How do I set next map via ingame commands? For example the server is running metro and I want the next map to be locker, how do I set it in-game?

Also how can I check player reports in bfadmincp? the same reports that we find ingame with /reportlist. How to make reports stay in the system permanently until an admin clears them, If I am not wrong then currently the reports lasts only for the specific round.

Is there any option to replace the admin name in ban/kick messages with Admin1, Admin2 etc, so that I can know who kicked whom but it remains a mystery to the kicked player.

@ColColonCleaner please have a look at my queries.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

How do I set next map via ingame commands? For example the server is running metro and I want the next map to be locker, how do I set it in-game?

 

You use the ultimate map manager plugin. there is no command for this in AdKats.

 

Also how can I check player reports in bfadmincp? the same reports that we find ingame with /reportlist

Please ask Prophet about this, I do not control the BFACP.

 

Is there any option to replace the admin name in ban/kick messages with Admin1, Admin2 etc, so that I can know who kicked whom but it remains a mystery to the kicked player.

 

Not at this time, transparency was built into the plugin from the start so any kicked/banned player will see the player name of whoever acted on them. This can be a real player, or an autoadmin.

See above.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Any ideas why Adkat is spamming "Adkatsinstancecheck..." text to Rconnet's chat? Didn't find any info about it. :/

Not sure why rconnet is storing hidden admin say messages in their chat logs, that is the point of them being hidden. Any admin say that begins with a / should not be included in any logs.

 

That message is sent by AdKats to ensure that only one instance of AdKats is running on a server at any given time. This was an insurance policy since some people were trying to do that before and it messes with several key functions.

 

EDIT: That is to say any additional instance of AdKats attempting to start up on a single server will automatically terminate itself.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Hi,

For the first time same thing happened to me. Someone with invalid player name joined my server and now I can't get rid of those errors. I tried to backup sql database, stop AdKats and "PRoCon Chat, GUID, Stats...", then remove that player from DB (including thousands rows in adkats_records_debug table), and start those plugins again (during gameplay). Didn't try to restart Procon Layer yet, I'll restart everything when server is empty.

 

In case you haven't predicted all bad characters:

Code:

[21:18:55 64] [AdKats] EXCEPTION-6800-FetchPlayerBattlelogInformation-BattlelogComm59: [Could not find persona ID for -BA-GipE>>>]
[21:18:58 64] [AdKats] EXCEPTION-6800-FetchPlayerBattlelogInformation-BattlelogComm59: [Could not find persona ID for -BA-GipE>>>]
[21:19:06 22] [AdKats] EXCEPTION-6800-FetchPlayerBattlelogInformation-BattlelogComm59: [Could not find persona ID for -BA-GipE>>>]

I still got this even if mysqldump |grep -i GipE shows only lines from debug table. Where else can AdKats see this guy's name after cleaning DB?

It's seeing that player in your server, their player must be glitched there. Try rebooting your battlefield server when it's empty. I'll need to add more ignores for those players. Please open a ticket on github.

 

https://github.com/AdKats/AdKats/issues

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Oh, hit757, I just noticed you are not on the latest version. Please /pupdate to the latest version of AdKats and see if this issue continues.

 

I should do a full release some time soon. There have been enough changes since the last one to warrant a new stable version.

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Originally Posted by HitchItch*:

 

Has anyone found a way to disable the EA team balance permanently?

 

procon/server settings/gameplay/team balance

 

We have to uncheck this box multiple times a day, it somehow turns itself back on.

 

This totally screws up adkats team balance, the teams become horribly unbalanced and people start to leave the server. IE: 12 vs 4

 

I cannot find any way to keep this box unchecked.

 

Im hoping someone has a solution, this thing drives me nuts

 

Thanks

 

Hitch

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Has anyone found a way to disable the EA team balance permanently?

 

procon/server settings/gameplay/team balance

 

We have to uncheck this box multiple times a day, it somehow turns itself back on.

 

This totally screws up adkats team balance, the teams become horribly unbalanced and people start to leave the server. IE: 12 vs 4

 

I cannot find any way to keep this box unchecked.

 

Im hoping someone has a solution, this thing drives me nuts

 

Thanks

 

Hitch

AdKats does not have a team balancer. Only the top player monitor which is for dispersion. What else are you running?

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Originally Posted by hit757*:

 

Oh, hit757, I just noticed you are not on the latest version. Please /pupdate to the latest version of AdKats and see if this issue continues.

It seems to be ok now. Thx.

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Originally Posted by HitchItch*:

 

AdKats does not have a team balancer. Only the top player monitor which is for dispersion. What else are you running?

I did not set it up but ours has settings for balancing and they are on in Section A16:

 

A16. Orchestration Setting:

Feed MULTIBalancer whitelist

Feed MULTIBalancer Even Dispersion List

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Originally Posted by www-battleplay4u-com*:

 

Has anyone found a way to disable the EA team balance permanently?

 

procon/server settings/gameplay/team balance

 

We have to uncheck this box multiple times a day, it somehow turns itself back on.

Unfortunately, as far as i know, the only way to keep it off permanentely is to switch the server from "normal" to "custom". Then it will work. It looks like DICE hardcoded this setting for "normal" servers.

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Originally Posted by schmoove*:

 

Sounds like your tables/triggers are messed up. You need to do the following.

 

Firstly check that you have two triggers on your adkats_records_main table, one for add and one for delete. If you do not have these, tell me, and don't continue through these steps.

 

Shut down your layers.

 

Back up your records table. Just that table.

 

TRUNCATE `adkats_records_main`;

TRUNCATE `adkats_records_debug`;

TRUNCATE `adkats_infractions_global`;

TRUNCATE `adkats_infractions_server`;

 

Re-import your records table.

 

Your infractions will be correct again.

Sorry for the late response.

 

I don't see that there are any triggers in the database.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

I did not set it up but ours has settings for balancing and they are on in Section A16:

 

A16. Orchestration Setting:

Feed MULTIBalancer whitelist

Feed MULTIBalancer Even Dispersion List

Yes, that's for feeding settings on multibalancer, a separate plugin. AdKats itself does not have a full balancer. The top player monitor does bypass EA's balancer though, but it's only intended to function well on servers with a lot of high caliber players, and only balances those players.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

ATTENTION

 

We just found a serious issue that could potentially cause AdKats to completely wipe your records, admin powers, and bans.

 

This had been reported by 2 people in the past year, but at those times it was dismissed as unable to be caused by the plugin, mainly because there is no code to directly delete records/data/bans. However, we found a nuance of MySQL that could cause it, and the plugin can trigger that functionality during database restarts or extreme lag.

 

I am writing up a patch tonight to prevent this from happening, then pushing a full release for it so everyone grabs the update.

 

While this is a very rare issue (only reported by 2 people out of thousands running AdKats, and the problem code was added nearly 2 years ago) it is possible and you should update your plugin immediately.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Update pushed to the test branch. Once this is confirmed functional I'm pushing it public.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Released for everyone. Your plugins should automatically update unless you've turned that setting off. If your plugin does not automatically update you should update it manually.

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Originally Posted by madStas*:

 

Hi! plugin updated, all seems ok, but when i request rules it write: plugin updated to version 6.8.1.0 plese restart procon. procon i restarted but this showes agen (

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Hi! plugin updated, all seems ok, but when i request rules it write: plugin updated to version 6.8.1.0 plese restart procon. procon i restarted but this showes agen (

You need to restart your procon layer, not your client.

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Originally Posted by madStas*:

 

i have no client =) Only layer on VDS.

Hmm strange thing, restrted procon again and its ok, sorry, my fault! =)

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Originally Posted by VBK-Clan*:

 

[14:19:01 44] [AdKats] ERROR-6800: [ip-api failed to respond with player location information, your layer may be IP banned. (Unable to connect to the remote server)]

 

in Procon Plugins get a new update Message and when i klick for Download ,get old version of Adkats,

i see after instalation and now many errors and my ip get banned

 

Why is the new update not in This Treat? for download redy?

Thx for help