Advanced In-Game Admin and Ban Enforcer - AdKats

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

nice. i thought i was drunk when i noticed that the first time.

Yep, more will be coming soon too. I recently added red coloring to the ban enforce messages just like the admin actions.

 

I'm not sure about adding colors to the loadout enforcer messages, they happen a lot and adding color to them might make it too busy. We'll see though. There is a limited number of colors in procon so it might be alright.

 

The whole idea behind this is being able to easily pick out messages you care about from the rest of the information.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Motorcharge*:

 

Which url do I need for Discord integration? I'm trying to set it up but keep getting error messages for both the one copied from the HTML and from the JSON link.

 

"Issue connecting to discord widget url: *link*"

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Which url do I need for Discord integration? I'm trying to set it up but keep getting error messages for both the one copied from the HTML and from the JSON link.

 

"Issue connecting to discord widget url: *link*"

You need your discord server ID.

 

For example, when you open your discord server in your web browser you'll see the server ID in the URL.

 

discordapp.com/channels/ServerID/ChannelID

 

Put the server ID into the server ID setting.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by AC-Topper*:

 

Hello,

 

I have a question concerning the additional text which is added to every ban message. Is it somehow possible to remove the admin name so that a ban message only contains the reason, duration and the customizable additional text? I've found the option "Display Admin Name in Action Announcement" which does exactly what I want but only in-game. Thanks.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Hello,

 

I have a question concerning the additional text which is added to every ban message. Is it somehow possible to remove the admin name so that a ban message only contains the reason, duration and the customizable additional text? I've found the option "Display Admin Name in Action Announcement" which does exactly what I want but only in-game. Thanks.

There was intentionally no setting added to remove the admin name from the ban message, the idea behind that being every player should know who banned them.

 

However, i see some of the reasons why people might want to disable that. I can add a setting for it in the future if you want.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by AC-Topper*:

 

There was intentionally no setting added to remove the admin name from the ban message, the idea behind that being every player should know who banned them.

 

However, i see some of the reasons why people might want to disable that. I can add a setting for it in the future if you want.

Some of our admins asked me if that's possible because banned people spam them with friend requests on Battlelog instead of using our forum or Battlelog Platoons for ban appeals. I understand the reason why you haven't added this option yet but (at least from our experience) many players simply ignore the link to our unban web page which we provide through the additional ban message and add the admin...

 

We would really appreciate it if you could implement this setting.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Motorcharge*:

 

You need your discord server ID.

 

For example, when you open your discord server in your web browser you'll see the server ID in the URL.

 

discordapp.com/channels/ServerID/ChannelID

 

Put the server ID into the server ID setting.

Thank you, I got that taken care of.

 

But, is there somewhere I can find more info on Discord integration? I feel like it's setup properly but I don't see commands for it and I'm not entirely sure how it's supposed to work as I've never seen a server with it integrated. The clan's server my group split from had the Teamspeak integration setup (and is responsible for it in adkats I guess) so I only have experience with that integration.

 

Are there commands? Is there a way to join Discord directly from the server via command?

 

The only things in Adkats I haven't setup for Discord are the string arrays for Discord Players and Discord Channel Members but I noticed the Discord All Members filled itself out.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Thank you, I got that taken care of.

 

But, is there somewhere I can find more info on Discord integration? I feel like it's setup properly but I don't see commands for it and I'm not entirely sure how it's supposed to work as I've never seen a server with it integrated. The clan's server my group split from had the Teamspeak integration setup (and is responsible for it in adkats I guess) so I only have experience with that integration.

 

Are there commands? Is there a way to join Discord directly from the server via command?

 

The only things in Adkats I haven't setup for Discord are the string arrays for Discord Players and Discord Channel Members but I noticed the Discord All Members filled itself out.

You can see explanations of the discord settings at the following link:

 

https://github.com/AdKats/AdKats#b29...nitor-settings

 

There is one discord command by my knowledge, and that's /discordlink which links discord members to players in game. Teamspeak didn't have this issue because you could match IPs of in game players to IPs of teamspeak users, but discord doesn't provide IP information over the public API so this command is sometimes necessary to link people if their names do not match.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Motorcharge*:

 

You can see explanations of the discord settings at the following link:

 

https://github.com/AdKats/AdKats#b29...nitor-settings

 

There is one discord command by my knowledge, and that's /discordlink which links discord members to players in game. Teamspeak didn't have this issue because you could match IPs of in game players to IPs of teamspeak users, but discord doesn't provide IP information over the public API so this command is sometimes necessary to link people if their names do not match.

So it has to be done manually?

 

Just tried /discordlink on myself and it came back that it couldn't find me in Discord but when I left the server and came back it showed the message that I was in Discord.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

So it has to be done manually?

 

Just tried /discordlink on myself and it came back that it couldn't find me in Discord but when I left the server and came back it showed the message that I was in Discord.

If procon were on .NET 4.7 i'd be able to use websockets with discord properly. Unfortunately it's still on .NET 3.5, which doesn't have websockets. So for security reasons on discord's end they aren't able to provide anything more on their public API than a generic server info URI updated every 5 minutes.

 

This means that players in your discord server are currently only updated every 5 minutes.

 

If I ever get the chance to update procon for people to .NET 4.7 i'll do it, but almost everyone running AdKats is on .net 3.5.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by SmackDown*:

 

Hello,

 

Can you please explain what section 32 of Adkats is all about and what it does. I can find no explanation as to its purpose and how to use it. Could you also explain the following sections and settings:

 

C32.Challenge Settings

 

C32.Challenge Setting [1] Displays

 

C32.Challenge Settings[2]

 

C32.Chalenge Settings[3] Rules

 

Thank you for your efforts.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Hello,

 

Can you please explain what section 32 of Adkats is all about and what it does. I can find no explanation as to its purpose and how to use it. Could you also explain the following sections and settings:

 

C32.Challenge Settings

 

C32.Challenge Setting [1] Displays

 

C32.Challenge Settings[2]

 

C32.Chalenge Settings[3] Rules

 

Thank you for your efforts.

It's not done yet, leave it alone for now.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by SmackDown*:

 

It's not done yet, leave it alone for now.

Thanks.. I have a lot of grey hair so I always check to see if the safety is turn on before pulling the trigger...LOL....

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Originally Posted by SmackDown*:

 

Seeing the below errors. I notice that the error only shows up after the reboot of the layer server. After the below error code displays, I will reboot the layer server again and then the below error does not show up again:

 

[05:39:50 89] [AdKats] WARNING: Thread warning: DatabaseComm[38] PlayerListing[33] BattlelogComm[43] IPAPIComm[44] BanKickPlayerMessage[49] AccessFetching[21] KillProcessing[35] Messaging[36] Command[37] ActionHandling[39] TeamSwap[40] BanEnforcer[41] AntiCheat[42] BanKickPlayerMessage[50] BanKickPlayerMessage[45] BanKickPlayerMessage[46] BanKickPlayerMessage[47] BanKickPlayerMessage[53] BanKickPlayerMessage[48] BanKickPlayerMessage[57] BanKickPlayerMessage[6] BanKickPlayerMessage[56] BanKickPlayerMessage[55] BanKickPlayerMessage[54] BanKickPlayerMessage[59] BanKickPlayerMessage[60] BanKickPlayerMessage[62] BanKickPlayerMessage[64] BanKickPlayerMessage[63] BanKickPlayerMessage[61] BanKickPlayerMessage[65] BanKickPlayerMessage[66] BanKickPlayerMessage[67] BanKickPlayerMessage[68]

 

 

 

Any ideas?

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Seeing the below errors. I notice that the error only shows up after the reboot of the layer server. After the below error code displays, I will reboot the layer server again and then the below error does not show up again:

 

[05:39:50 89] [AdKats] WARNING: Thread warning: DatabaseComm[38] PlayerListing[33] BattlelogComm[43] IPAPIComm[44] BanKickPlayerMessage[49] AccessFetching[21] KillProcessing[35] Messaging[36] Command[37] ActionHandling[39] TeamSwap[40] BanEnforcer[41] AntiCheat[42] BanKickPlayerMessage[50] BanKickPlayerMessage[45] BanKickPlayerMessage[46] BanKickPlayerMessage[47] BanKickPlayerMessage[53] BanKickPlayerMessage[48] BanKickPlayerMessage[57] BanKickPlayerMessage[6] BanKickPlayerMessage[56] BanKickPlayerMessage[55] BanKickPlayerMessage[54] BanKickPlayerMessage[59] BanKickPlayerMessage[60] BanKickPlayerMessage[62] BanKickPlayerMessage[64] BanKickPlayerMessage[63] BanKickPlayerMessage[61] BanKickPlayerMessage[65] BanKickPlayerMessage[66] BanKickPlayerMessage[67] BanKickPlayerMessage[68]

 

 

 

Any ideas?

This is because you have all those unread records in your database. I still haven't looked into why your records are not being marked as read when they should be, been focused on other things.

 

EDIT: If you haven't already done the below query. Try setting your AdKats debug level to 5, then shut down your layer. Start it back up. Let AdKats boot to start up. Wait a little while for all of the 'kick' messages to stop happening, a couple minutes. Then send me that log file.

 

To fix this issue, after you've sent the log file, run this on your database:

 

update adkats_records_main set adkats_read = 'Y' where adkats_read = 'N';

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

I'm about halfway done with the challenge system. Please do not use any of the settings in section C32 until that section is complete.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Panter*:

 

That's cool but will it work with MariaDB?

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

That's cool but will it work with MariaDB?

Considering how similar MariaDB is to MySQL, and that you can use MySQL connectors to interface with a MariaDB instance, you should be fine. However, i have not tested AdKats or the stat logger plugin against that database engine.

 

I would suggest setting up the stat logger plugin and making sure that works with Maria if that's the engine you are using. Keep me posted.

[Prophet731]

Originally Posted by Prophet731*:

 

Considering how similar MariaDB is to MySQL, and that you can use MySQL connectors to interface with a MariaDB instance, you should be fine. However, i have not tested AdKats or the stat logger plugin against that database engine.

 

I would suggest setting up the stat logger plugin and making sure that works with Maria if that's the engine you are using. Keep me posted.

Colon, we've been using MariaDB for a long time for AdKats and the stats logger. So it'll work fine. It's basically a fork of MySQL from I think version 5.7? Not sure when it happened.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Colon, we've been using MariaDB for a long time for AdKats and the stats logger. So it'll work fine. It's basically a fork of MySQL from I think version 5.7? Not sure when it happened.

I was unaware of this, I've only used MySQL locally. Glad to hear it's compatible.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by jsimpson32*:

 

Recently I added some admins to adkats but now need to delete them. How do I remove them completely rather than just change status to guest? There is a drop down box to remove them but not sure how to use it.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Recently I added some admins to adkats but now need to delete them. How do I remove them completely rather than just change status to guest? There is a drop down box to remove them but not sure how to use it.

See the 'delete_' line on each user? Type the word delete in that line. This is explained in the documentation.

 

Requiring people to type the full word delete prevents accidental deletion of users.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by jsimpson32*:

 

See the 'delete_' line on each user? Type the word delete in that line. This is explained in the documentation.

 

Requiring people to type the full word delete prevents accidental deletion of users.

Yeah, bit of laziness on my part for not looking it up, guilty. Thanks for prompt answer!

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by SmackDown*:

 

New error today.

 

Rebooted our layer servers and got the below errors:

 

[05:29:00 81] [AdKats] EXCEPTION-70185-0.03-D-DBReadDefinitions-DatabaseComm39: [Error reading in definitions for challenge manager.][MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Table 'c962102_BF4Stats.adkats_challenge_definition' doesn't exist

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.SafeExecuteReader(MySqlCommand command)

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.AChallengeManager.DBReadDefini tions(MySqlConnection con)]

[05:29:01 03] [AdKats] EXCEPTION-70185-0.03-D-DBReadRules-DatabaseComm39: [Error reading in rules for challenge manager.][MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Table 'c962102_BF4Stats.adkats_challenge_rule' doesn't exist

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.SafeExecuteReader(MySqlCommand command)

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.AChallengeManager.DBReadRules( MySqlConnection con)]

 

 

 

I can tell this is related to the new project your working on. Is this something that I need to worry about or is the challenge project not done yet?

 

Thank you for your help.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

New error today.

 

Rebooted our layer servers and got the below errors:

 

[05:29:00 81] [AdKats] EXCEPTION-70185-0.03-D-DBReadDefinitions-DatabaseComm39: [Error reading in definitions for challenge manager.][MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Table 'c962102_BF4Stats.adkats_challenge_definition' doesn't exist

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.SafeExecuteReader(MySqlCommand command)

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.AChallengeManager.DBReadDefini tions(MySqlConnection con)]

[05:29:01 03] [AdKats] EXCEPTION-70185-0.03-D-DBReadRules-DatabaseComm39: [Error reading in rules for challenge manager.][MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Table 'c962102_BF4Stats.adkats_challenge_rule' doesn't exist

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.SafeExecuteReader(MySqlCommand command)

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.AChallengeManager.DBReadRules( MySqlConnection con)]

 

 

 

I can tell this is related to the new project your working on. Is this something that I need to worry about or is the challenge project not done yet?

 

Thank you for your help.

Ah yeah, don't worry about it, it's from the challenge manager. You might see those 2 errors every 5 minutes or so until I make the table inserts public or block the errors. I'll add the block tonight.

 

EDIT: You shouldn't notice this affecting anything else in the plugin though. The challenge system is completely isolated.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by SmackDown*:

 

Ah yeah, don't worry about it, it's from the challenge manager. You might see those 2 errors every 5 minutes or so until I make the table inserts public or block the errors. I'll add the block tonight.

 

EDIT: You shouldn't notice this affecting anything else in the plugin though. The challenge system is completely isolated.

Thank you for your efforts and response!

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by jsimpson32*:

 

Is it possible to grant just @moveme command access only to a person without giving them full admin rights?

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by jsimpson32*:

 

Is it possible to grant just @moveme command access only to a person without giving them full admin rights?

Never mind, i see it's possible just need to read in... wish I had access at work. Lol

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by jsimpson32*:

 

Never mind, i see it's possible just need to read in... wish I had access at work. Lol

Think I figured out. Small donation sent.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Think I figured out. Small donation sent.

lol, glad you figured it out man. Cheers.