Advanced In-Game Admin and Ban Enforcer - AdKats

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

i did put the hostname right and the port 3306

been working on this for hours i cant get it to work

Please install stat logger before you install AdKats, it is a requirement, and that plugin will tell you specifically what is going wrong with your connection

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

C3, forgive me but how would one unban a player? Previously I'd just go into procon and do it, but I'm uncertain now here ty.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

C3, forgive me but how would one unban a player? Previously I'd just go into procon and do it, but I'm uncertain now here ty.

Before i always said you shouldn't use ban enforcer unless you are either using the webadmin or can manage your bans via the database. It has a lot of options, and procon 1.0's interface can't hold it all. However, i might be able to add just the unbanning part to the plugin. A ban-search field under the ban section; Enter part of a player name (3 char minimum) and it lists all bans of matching players in the settings window with an option Active/Disabled on the ban.

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

Before i always said you shouldn't use ban enforcer unless you are either using the webadmin or can manage your bans via the database. It has a lot of options, and procon 1.0's interface can't hold it all. However, i might be able to add just the unbanning part to the plugin. A ban-search field under the ban section; Enter part of a player name (3 char minimum) and it lists all bans of matching players in the settings window with an option Active/Disabled on the ban.

Hi C3, yeah that would work and would be good enuf. I don't lift many of them but in a few rare cases would be nice to do so.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

TESTERS ONLY

 

Updated. 3.9.9.6

 

Added mini ban management. Search for a partial or full player name in "ban search" and it will return active bans for players matching that name. You can then change "Active" or "Disabled".

 

https://raw.github.com/ColColonClean...test/AdKats.cs

Same setup script as 3.9.9.2

https://raw.github.com/ColColonClean...est/adkats.sql

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

TESTERS ONLY

 

Updated. 3.9.9.6

 

Added mini ban management. Search for a partial or full player name in "ban search" and it will return active bans for players matching that name. You can then change "Active" or "Disabled".

 

https://raw.github.com/ColColonClean...test/AdKats.cs

Same setup script as 3.9.9.2

https://raw.github.com/ColColonClean...est/adkats.sql

Loaded and lookin good. Regarding the ban search, in the past with EA GUID bans, there wasn't a name attached, is this the case now? Also, with the impending release, you will add over time more weps to the hacker check system?

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Loaded and lookin good. Regarding the ban search, in the past with EA GUID bans, there wasn't a name attached, is this the case now? Also, with the impending release, you will add over time more weps to the hacker check system?

I'm setting it up to pull the raw damages of each weapon from a page on my github repo, just like the plugin description. Your layer will auto update on restart whenever i change that, won't need to push out new versions with minor changes.

 

BF4Stats does include the damage each weapon deals in their response, but unfortunately those values are wrong; They round to the nearest 10% on weapon damage.

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

I'm setting it up to pull the raw damages of each weapon from a page on my github repo, just like the plugin description. Your layer will auto update on restart whenever i change that, won't need to push out new versions with minor changes.

 

BF4Stats does include the damage each weapon deals in their response, but unfortunately those values are wrong; They round to the nearest 10% on weapon damage.

Cool, can't wait!

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Originally Posted by Tostitos-Scoops*:

 

Has anyone had spontaneous adkat crashes? Seems like every morning i log into procon and adkats is either turned off, or missing from my plugin list. Only thing I can think of is it might be conflicting with another plugin. I have all other in-game admin plugins removed. I have noticed its causing my procon layer server to crash too. Anyone have any ideas on the fix ?

[Prophet731]

Originally Posted by Prophet731*:

 

Has anyone had spontaneous adkat crashes? Seems like every morning i log into procon and adkats is either turned off, or missing from my plugin list. Only thing I can think of is it might be conflicting with another plugin. I have all other in-game admin plugins removed. I have noticed its causing my procon layer server to crash too. Anyone have any ideas on the fix ?

Check the logs on the layer. Perhaps it will tell you what is happening.

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

No issues here yet regarding Scoops's issue but on another note, got my first AdKats Player Report which I found pretty cool thanks guys!

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

C3, I'm trying to lift a ban that was performed a little less than an hour ago, it definitely was an EA GUID Perma ban, but it doesn't come up at all for this player. How long should it take once ban is placed for it to show in the database?

 

 

[12:04:08 92] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:04:29 06] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:04:33 70] Enforcing ban on xxxxxx374 for Making Racial/Derogatory Comments

[12:04:41 43] [AdKats] ERROR: No players matching 'xxxxxx' have active bans.

[12:04:49 24] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:05:02 91] [AdKats] Players with BF4Stats: 28.36%

[12:05:09 37] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:05:09 64] [AdKats] Players with BF4Stats: 28.15%

[12:05:15 98] [AdKats] Players with BF4Stats: 27.94%

[12:05:29 60] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

 

it's been well over an hour with multiple ban list fires, so what's holding this up? Ideally, shouldn't here be an "unban" command? I've even restarted my layer but to no avail.

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Originally Posted by Tostitos-Scoops*:

 

No issues here yet regarding Scoops's issue but on another note, got my first AdKats Player Report which I found pretty cool thanks guys!

I disabled the plugin "BanManager" and no disconnection issues and adkats stays on. That was the issue. Has anyone figured out the web admin feature? Setup instructions were kinda rediculous

[Prophet731]

Originally Posted by Prophet731*:

 

C3, I'm trying to lift a ban that was performed a little less than an hour ago, it definitely was an EA GUID Perma ban, but it doesn't come up at all for this player. How long should it take once ban is placed for it to show in the database?

 

 

[12:04:08 92] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:04:29 06] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:04:33 70] Enforcing ban on xxxxxx374 for Making Racial/Derogatory Comments

[12:04:41 43] [AdKats] ERROR: No players matching 'xxxxxx' have active bans.

[12:04:49 24] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:05:02 91] [AdKats] Players with BF4Stats: 28.36%

[12:05:09 37] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:05:09 64] [AdKats] Players with BF4Stats: 28.15%

[12:05:15 98] [AdKats] Players with BF4Stats: 27.94%

[12:05:29 60] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

 

it's been well over an hour with multiple ban list fires, so what's holding this up? Ideally, shouldn't here be an "unban" command? I've even restarted my layer but to no avail.

Check the database. Either the ban expired or its cutting off the name when searching for the banned player. When you ban someone its instant. Every action gets written to the database when its successful.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Has anyone had spontaneous adkat crashes? Seems like every morning i log into procon and adkats is either turned off, or missing from my plugin list. Only thing I can think of is it might be conflicting with another plugin. I have all other in-game admin plugins removed. I have noticed its causing my procon layer server to crash too. Anyone have any ideas on the fix ?

This is sometimes caused by an unreliable database connection, who is the provider of your database? We have had this issue ourselves at times when our database/webserver gets DDOS'd. AdKats is constantly accessing the database when there a lot of operations being done. I built in a backup system to disable attempts to hit your database if the connection is malfunctioning, but sometimes procon still ejects the plugin. More systems have been worked into 4.0 to rectify this.

 

If you can send me your logs somehow that would be great for debugging further.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

I disabled the plugin "BanManager" and no disconnection issues and adkats stays on. That was the issue. Has anyone figured out the web admin feature? Setup instructions were kinda rediculous

Dude, did you have ban enforcer enabled in AdKats? If so you were running two ban managers at the same time....not so healthy lol. Both of our plugins are very database heavy, and probably tripping on each other's toes for the connection.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

C3, I'm trying to lift a ban that was performed a little less than an hour ago, it definitely was an EA GUID Perma ban, but it doesn't come up at all for this player. How long should it take once ban is placed for it to show in the database?

 

 

[12:04:08 92] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:04:29 06] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:04:33 70] Enforcing ban on xxxxxx374 for Making Racial/Derogatory Comments

[12:04:41 43] [AdKats] ERROR: No players matching 'xxxxxx' have active bans.

[12:04:49 24] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:05:02 91] [AdKats] Players with BF4Stats: 28.36%

[12:05:09 37] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

[12:05:09 64] [AdKats] Players with BF4Stats: 28.15%

[12:05:15 98] [AdKats] Players with BF4Stats: 27.94%

[12:05:29 60] [AdKats] OnBanList fired

 

it's been well over an hour with multiple ban list fires, so what's holding this up? Ideally, shouldn't here be an "unban" command? I've even restarted my layer but to no avail.

King, all bans are instant when running ban enforcer, they are persisted to the database without touching procon's banlist. The query for that returns all players matching what you sent it, then checks them for bans. If it didn't respond correctly, either there is a bug, you entered the partial name wrong, or the player actually doesn't have a ban anymore. Try banning yourself and checking it.

 

I can make attempts at an in-game unban command, but there is an issue. We are running upwards of 700,000 players logged in our servers, with 4000 of them banned, so if you type @unban steve it might find many many people with bans matching that name. There is no way to display that whole list in-game well. I can try it though.

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

Check the database. Either the ban expired or its cutting off the name when searching for the banned player. When you ban someone its instant. Every action gets written to the database when its successful.

Well I've found him in the database but it's not showing as active but it does state it's active when this player attempts to join so obviously something is wrong somewhere. I'm not sure why but it was straight up EA GUID perma ban so why isn't it showing in the database as active? There are others in there as well that were all straight up EA GUID perma bans non of which are showing as active so something is amiss.

 

When I go into the database, and click on the "adkats_bans table, the clicking on the "latest_record_id, can I just delete it that way?

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Well I've found him in the database but it's not showing as active but it does state it's active when this player attempts to join so obviously something is wrong somewhere. I'm not sure why but it was straight up EA GUID perma ban so why isn't it showing in the database as active? There are others in there as well that were all straight up EA GUID perma bans non of which are showing as active so something is amiss.

 

When I go into the database, and click on the "adkats_bans table, the clicking on the "latest_record_id, can I just delete it that way?

Ok, no need for a manual override. Remember i'm trying to make this easy for people so workarounds are not good during testing, we need to find why it's not functioning properly and fix the heart of the problem.

 

When a player joins, all of their information is updated to the database. Their name and eaguid on first player list, and their IP after the PB data comes through. What this means is they DO have a name in the database, the last soldier name they used to join your server with that particular GUID. So whenever a ban is enforced it will have a name attached to it, so i'm not sure where your issue is.

 

I'll test a few more things and get back to you.

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

Ok, no need for a manual override. Remember i'm trying to make this easy for people so workarounds are not good during testing, we need to find why it's not functioning properly and fix the heart of the problem.

 

When a player joins, all of their information is updated to the database. Their name and eaguid on first player list, and their IP after the PB data comes through. What this means is they DO have a name in the database, the last soldier name they used to join your server with that particular GUID. So whenever a ban is enforced it will have a name attached to it, so i'm not sure where your issue is.

 

I'll test a few more things and get back to you.

ok, I did have more active bans in the db that were actually showing in procon adkats

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

ok, I did have more active bans in the db that were actually showing in procon adkats

The error i thought might be happening is not, everything is functioning normally by what i can see. Is that player still not searchable? Is their ban "Active"?

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

The error i thought might be happening is not, everything is functioning normally by what i can see. Is that player still not searchable? Is their ban "Active"?

Yes that's it exactly, even after I edit the entry and place their name in there and it shows as 'Active' it doesn't come up using the ban search. I actually got my first HSK auto ban and that does show up for the record.

 

Hacking/Cheating HSK Automatic Ban [PKPPECHENEG-55-358-197]

 

Interesting tho I saw this later:

 

[21:34:59 96] [AdKats] WARNING: Could not find pkp-pecheneg in BF4 stat library.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

yes that's it exactly, even after I edit the entry and place their name in there it doesn't come up using the ban search.

Hmmm. PM me read-only creds to your AdKats database and i'll take a look at it. I'll also need the player's name.

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

Hmmm. PM me read-only creds to your AdKats database and i'll take a look at it. I'll also need the player's name.

sent a few PMs

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

sent a few PMs

a "few"...right...lol

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

a "few"...right...lol

Yeah sorry

 

Btw, was curious how difficult would it be to add code to get email notifs on hacker auto bans? I found the first one by accident while I was coming through the database. I edited my post above #901 with that stat library warning.

 

I just "EA GUID" perma banned 2 players tonight and they are not showing up as active. I've gone into the database and used edit function and it does show as active but not on the list however, so I cicked 'edit' and just saved and then they went into "active" status. Also, the other 4 are showing as active and only two of those are searchable so I'm not certain what the heck is happening. One of those 4, not the 2 that are searchable, but one of the others was searchable but isn't any longer.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Yeah sorry

 

Btw, was curious how difficult would it be to add code to get email notifs on hacker auto bans? I found the first one by accident while I was coming through the database. I edited my post above #901 with that stat library warning.

 

I just "EA GUID" perma banned 2 players tonight and they are not showing up as active. I've gone into the database and used edit function and it does show as active but not on the list however, so I cicked 'edit' and just saved and then they went into "active" status. Also, the other 4 are showing as active and only two of those are searchable so I'm not certain what the heck is happening. One of those 4, not the 2 that are searchable, but one of the others was searchable but isn't any longer.

I can add an option for emails on auto-bans.

 

For the library warning that is normal operation, the DPS checker is the only one needing the stat library at this time, although the others might need it in the future.

 

As for your bans, something is deleting your soldier names and i don't know what it is...the records for your bans have target names, which means at some point the player had a name, but now the name is gone. I'll look into it further.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Found a source of procon panic previously unchecked, the fix will be implemented immediately.

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Originally Posted by lordicon*:

 

Is the layers needed for this or is setting up the Admins name in the plugin the only thing needed? I would like to do away with giving layer access that's why I am asking...

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

I can add an option for emails on auto-bans.

 

For the library warning that is normal operation, the DPS checker is the only one needing the stat library at this time, although the others might need it in the future.

 

As for your bans, something is deleting your soldier names and i don't know what it is...the records for your bans have target names, which means at some point the player had a name, but now the name is gone. I'll look into it further.

Ok, nice to hear on the auto bans email and will stand by for your ban fix, thanks bud.