Remote controlling an ET server

(Fenris) #1

Since I’ve been having several OS crasches lately when testing new maps I was looking into running the ET server as a Windows service. I’ve gotten that part to work fine, so whenever the computer restarts it will then automatically launch the service and the ET server will start up again. The only drawback I’ve found so far is that the server then runs without console display, which could also be an advantage from time to time (less need for GUI refreshes)

However, this leaves me with the question of how to remotely shut it down when I want to for example add another map or reconfigure something. I could of course just shut it down via ASE remote command, but I was wondering if there’s any way to do it on the actual server console so I wouldn’t be dependant on the computer having ASE (or ET for that matter) installed ? I.e. some small (preferrably free) utility that will simply send the command into the ET-server.

Any ideas ?

(M8DNephelim) #2

theres is another ASE kinda prog out there thats free to use called HLSW (half-life server watch), I think the URL is: http://www.hlsw.net/
it supports alot of games, but have i tried it? nope… gl :wink:

(Fenris) #3

Ah, it worked great, although the GUI was not the most easy to grasp but that’ll have to do :slight_smile:
Thanks a lot !

(M8DNephelim) #4

np :slight_smile:

(Fusen) #5

use rcon to shut it down?

(thelastname) #6

Could you access the remote pc with Remote Desktop? That’s assuming you are using XP on both machines.

(Fenris) #7

Well that would mean I would need to install ET on any PC from where I wanted to remote control the server which was not quite what I wanted, feels rather unnecessary :slight_smile:

Yes, that’s what I’m doing, which is why I was looking for a tool to shut down the server, as it does not have any console in the XP remote session.
Btw, you don’t need XP on both machines, works fine with Windows 2000 as well, and from what I’ve heard though I haven’t had any need to test it yet there’s also a remote console client for Linux.

(thelastname) #8

If you right click on the task bar on the remote pc and bring up the task manager you could kill it that way. Do not use CTRL + ALT + DEL that will bring up the task manager on the local pc even when using remote desktop.

It seems a bit unusual that it does not run consol version, do you have it runnig as a dedicated server?

There is a program for RTCW that will allow you to run a server remotely it may work with ET, it’s worth a try any way :slight_smile:

(Fenris) #9

Well thanks but I do know my way around windows so I have no problem with either killing the process from task manager or using ctrl+alt+del, that of course works fine, I was more wanting to just send a quit command or exec thisandthat.cfg command :slight_smile:

As for not showing any window yes it runs as a dedicated server, though I don’t see that as being the main point, it runs fine as a dedicated server with a status window if you launch it manually, however I’m running it as a service, quite preferrably since I don’t need to do anything to it when the etserver crasches the machine (which happens far too often if you ask me, but that’s hardly et’s fault, rather the maps, since running only for example Oasis will work fine)

Anyway, the utility I got from Nephilim does work for me and so does killing the et.exe process, so I’m just fine :slight_smile:

(M8DNephelim) #10

:rocker2:

(Fusen) #11

umm you don’t need et installed to use rcon commands… use a tool like rcon unlimited or other rcon programs which you don’t even need to install