Game Server Reporting - UT2004, QW, BF1042, BFV, COD, HL

bloater · Post by **bloater** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:54 am

For my game server hosting and community website I've assembled a group of scripts that will query specified game server and log their current player count, and max players. Since I put a lot of effort into it, I thought I'd contribute back. Enjoy!

Notes:
Some of these scripts require that qstat be installed. Some of the code for the Battlefield scripts was taken from the bfserverstats project over at sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/bfserverstats.

pbulteel · Post by **pbulteel** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:11 am

This is awesome! I was actually looking at getting something similar going. The only problam I seem to have is that the game server I'm trying to graph doesn't seem to have a way to poll via networking. (It's Delta Force 1) I need to run an application that grabs values from memory while the application is running.

I was going to modify BAB.stats to see if I could get it's information into Cacti...

Anyone else done anything similar? Once I get it done, I will post it here.

bloater · Post by **bloater** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:31 pm

If the game has an in game browser or is support by All Seeing Eye then I'm sure it has some protocol to query for the stats. Search google and you might get lucky.

pbulteel · Post by **pbulteel** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:57 am

Turns out that qstat supports Delta Force after all... using -sms option... but I can't seem to get it working.

bloater · Post by **bloater** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:13 am

Something like this should work:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

my $address = shift;
$response = `qstat -raw __  -sms $address`;
@response = split('__',$response);
print "player_count:".$response[5]." ";
print "max_players:".$response[4]." ";

Make sure that you have execute file permissions on the file. Then make sure that that qstat command line works.

pbulteel · Post by **pbulteel** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:37 am

Well althought -sms is supposed to be Delta Force, I keep on getting a Timeout... I don't know exactly what's wrong.

InfInIte · Post by **InfInIte** » Mon May 10, 2004 3:21 pm

This is a great addon

I'm using it without a problem for my Call of Duty server,
but Battlefield Vietnam is giving a problem.

the maximum players surrent: keeps saying 'nan' :S
The other values are all saying '0' and when i join the server it goes to '1'.

any idea what might be the problem? and maybe how to fix it

user1 · Post by **user1** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 4:47 pm

InfInIte wrote:This is a great addon
I'm using it without a problem for my Call of Duty server,
but Battlefield Vietnam is giving a problem.

the maximum players surrent: keeps saying 'nan' :S
The other values are all saying '0' and when i join the server it goes to '1'.

any idea what might be the problem? and maybe how to fix it

It is because PHP is outputting a "Powered-By-PHP" header in the script output which would interfer with the first data value i.e. Max_players.

To fix you should modify the data input Method from

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php <path_cacti>/scripts/bfv_query.php <address>

to

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php -q <path_cacti>/scripts/bfv_query.php <address>

Hope that helps

xxxGiJoe · Post by **xxxGiJoe** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:14 pm

Could someone post their Graph Templates? They aren't getting created on my install...

Thank You!

chicago · Post by **chicago** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 1:37 pm

is it just me or is the zip file corrupt.

after importing the XML

here is what i get for the data input method

perl <path_cacti>/scripts/bf_query.pl <address>

i had to edit to look like this perl <path_cact>/scripts/bf_query.pl <address>

I think some of the other XML is corrupt also..

chicago · Post by **chicago** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 10:15 am

I must have some setting wrong

Can anyone help?

chicago · Post by **chicago** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:26 pm

ok I think I found the problem

when I rum cmd.php for the command line the script works

update /home/chicago/public_html/cacti/rra/eagle7_max_players_129.rrd --template player_count:max_players N:0:24

but when cron runs the command the games scripts dont work

update /home/chicago/public_html/cacti/rra/eagle7_max_players_129.rrd --template player_count:max_players N::

whgat could be wrong ?

chicago · Post by **chicago** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:47 pm

Validating the path and updating the script with the absolute path for qstat did the trick.

Moony1234 · Post by **Moony1234** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:35 pm

guys how do i actually go about installing this, i simply wanna pole graphs for 2 half life game servers.

I've copied over the .pl file to the scripts folder, can anyone help, im quite a cacti noob.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:00 pm

lol i done my best and imported the .xml

but im getting:

RRDTool Says:

ERROR: can't parse '#942D0C:Natural Selection'

Im only trying to get some graphing of player count on a cs server, nothing too difficult, any help is appreciated.

Game Server Reporting - UT2004, QW, BF1042, BFV, COD, HL

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