Server Management [Need Input]

both rather vague... care to expand?

 

Yeah as a coding and server admin noob Im pretty lost :P

 

Would you rather have a interface like cPanel or a interface like eyeOS is what i meant.

 

Well what is eyeOS? iOS?

EDIT: Herp derp googled: www.eyeos.org

I dont have any experience with eyeOS but cPanel seems fine to me.

 

I guess I'll work on "Single Window" mode, and then when I figure out javascript better I'll work on that :P Single window mode being similar to cPanel, just depends on Ajax/http requests to display.

 

Hello, I was working on the Log Parser, and it seems VERY hard to keep track of players, is there a way to add a notification when a user disconnects, and how to say which one? Also I am very confused by the Scripts directory, what does it enable/allow the server to accomplish?

 

The only people able to satisfy your request are MM and Geti (read: the developers). Hope they're watching.

Files under Base/Scripts (especially dedicated_autoconfig.gm) are the main server setup files (you set port/interface/passwords/slots/gamemode in dedicated_autostart.gm etc). If you're not familiar with them I suggest checking the wiki. The thing is some properties of the server are scattered in other places, e.g. CTF-specific stuff under /Base/Rules/CTF/gamemode.cfg and so on.

P.S Be patient and when this is over and the CLI server management tool is out, you'd have a chance of looking at its source and maybe modify/adopt your panel accordingly.

 

I have a basic CLI "Panel-Version" (SSH->Runs script with params)that can perform some basic management tasks, create server, remove server, suspend/unsuspend, change basic settings, and manage the map cycle, but I was just curious about this because idk if there is a way to add some sort of a script to display a message when a user logs off.

 

I just updated KAG on my test environment to test my update handler, I got this, any ideas?
*I think it's just a missing library since the update, is there a way to DL it?

[root@dev kag]# ./createversion.sh
Running KAGcreate version file
mv: cannot stat `KAG.tmp': No such file or directory
./KAG: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

I've got the desktop for the alpha fairly done, it looks kinda bad, but then again, I just have to revise some CSS to make it look better. This was just a demo script that models the potential of this, it has a Taskbar, Desktop, Icons, and eventually I'll add a tray so that you'll be able to see all of your different servers down there and their status.

Link: http://kogcp.info/?p=5

 

Looking good but shouldnt it be KAGcp and not KOGcp?

 

I originated off of the idea of KAGcp but then I thought about the future, and I thought it would be nice if it was able to support multiple apps, and I thought of Kog (as in like a gear-sort of thing) and then I put the two together to come up with the new name. But my main focus for now is finalizing the KAG portion of the software so we can have a functional web software, shouldn't be long now, I'm guessing about 2 weeks, but then again if any difficulties come up it may take a lil longer to squash the bugs, if anybody is interested in being a beta tester please let me know.

Also: System is open for the potential of multiple SQL drivers, and multiple Client drivers. I'd like to know:
1) Besides MySQL what Databases would you like to see in the cp?
2) Would you rather have the system use ssh2 or a basic inetd/linux based program? Eventually I do plan on adding a Windows Client, I just have to learn some more windows functions.
3) API-wise what features do you think are REQUIRED and which do you think would be good to have?

 

Cant answer your questions as Im still very noob in these things, but I did reply to your post here with a screenshot: http://kagforum.com/index.php?threads/dedicated-server-renters.361/page-2#post-39035

 

Alright, so is it pretty much just SSH? Or is there software for you to use that is installed? Also do they limit the Ports you can use so they reserve access to the IP for other servers?

 

I've just posted a preliminary guideline for the API, all programs will be organized into "groups" which will be similar to plans so if some account is setup with the information "KAG" They will have all programs associated with group "KAG" automatically placed on their desktop.
Link: http://kogcp.info/?p=13
Note: More API details will be listed in the future.

 

Im almost positive they limit ports. Im a linux noob for the most part though, but I can ssh in and give you a list of installed programs if you tell me the command :P

 

There is no particular way to tell if they change ports, unless you are willing to mess with your server config, in which case you could run nano or vim to edit the file, change the port, and then see if it changes back, I'm assuming they do limit your port, because it would raise the cost quite a bit because the IP would have to be dedicated to that program which typically is around $1.50/IP. (to view your config file just run 'cat configfile') where configfile is the name of the config file.

 

For the server management, I've been trying to "Protect the server" by setting limits on resources and such, and while there doesn't appear to be a complete solution, I plan on using a combination of ulimit and limits.conf, which brings me to my question: 1) Is KAG Multi-Threaded?, and 2) Has anybody calculated RAM Usage/player avg, CPU, etc.(I've seen posts about KAG and they all say it's CPU intensive, and that Ram isn't real high, i'd just like to see numbers :P

 

1) No
2) Different people will give you different figures, or rather, Geti will most likely know. I'll forward this question to him.

If you could post a separate ulimit tutorial for us it'd be much appreciated (maybe added to the server wiki too)