ifordmc Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Hey, is there such a tool? Without using a .bat file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defent Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 http://www.firedaemon.com/is one tool that does this, altough it costs money. There is also a free variant of this, altough I don't remember the name of it. Google around and see if you can find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifordmc Posted December 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 http://www.firedaemon.com/is one tool that does this, altough it costs money. There is also a free variant of this, altough I don't remember the name of it. Google around and see if you can find it. If firedaemon is good, I will buy it. Although I will search around a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flow0815 Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Get rid of all those closed tools and the #shutdown command. Just use a simple batch file and call it in your sheduler.xml: @echo off echo. echo KILL arma3server.exe set serverkill="C:\arma3\a3master" cd /d %serverkill% taskkill /im arma3server.exe /F echo. timeout 5 echo. echo Rotate Logfiles set logs="C:\arma3\a3master" cd /d %logs% start "" "rotate-logs.bat" echo. timeout 5 echo. echo Start Arma 3 set logs="C:\arma3\a3master" cd /d %logs% start "" "start-a3-epoch.bat" (This is only a batch file with startup parameters for a3server) echo. timeout 10 echo. echo START BEC set bec="C:\arma3\a3master\bec" cd /d %bec% start "" "bec.exe" -f a3config.cfg echo. exit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oSoDirty Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 It can be done with a .bat file easily. costs nothing. requires no download. This is mine. @echo off color 0a title Server Starter :top echo Launching And Watching Server start /wait "arma3" /min "H:\A3poch\arma3server.exe" -mod=@Epoch;@EpochHive; -config=H:\A3poch\SC\config.cfg -ip=127.0.0.1 -port=6662 -profiles=SC -cfg=H:\A3poch\SC\basic.cfg -name=SC ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 >NUL echo Server has exited ... Restarting! ping 127.0.0.1 -n 1 >NUL cls goto top And since i dont have BEC on A3 epoch this is from DayZ epoch. Shouldn't be hard to figure out how to make it work for you @echo off color 0a title Server Starter :top echo Launching And Watching BEC ping 127.0.0.1 -n 30 >NUL start /wait "" /min "H:\overpochinsServer\ServerTools\bec.exe" -f config.cfg ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 >NUL echo Server has exited ... Restarting! cls goto top These will start and wait for them to shut down, then do it again. Until the prompts the bats bring up are closed, the server will restart evey time it shuts down then 30sec later BEC will do the same. Also place shortcuts to these in startup if you want the server to boot back on computer restart for those that arent keeping them online all of the time for test servers as well. EDIT: I didnt read the post. Just the title, But anyway batch would be the way to go if you ask me. Uses virtually no power of any sort from the box its running on. Any app however, will. ifordmc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifordmc Posted December 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 It can be done with a .bat file easily. costs nothing. requires no download. This is mine. @echo off color 0a title Server Starter :top echo Launching And Watching Server start /wait "arma3" /min "H:\A3poch\arma3server.exe" -mod=@Epoch;@EpochHive; -config=H:\A3poch\SC\config.cfg -ip=127.0.0.1 -port=6662 -profiles=SC -cfg=H:\A3poch\SC\basic.cfg -name=SC ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 >NUL echo Server has exited ... Restarting! ping 127.0.0.1 -n 1 >NUL cls goto top And since i dont have BEC on A3 epoch this is from DayZ epoch. Shouldn't be hard to figure out how to make it work for you @echo off color 0a title Server Starter :top echo Launching And Watching BEC ping 127.0.0.1 -n 30 >NUL start /wait "" /min "H:\overpochinsServer\ServerTools\bec.exe" -f config.cfg ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 >NUL echo Server has exited ... Restarting! cls goto top These will start and wait for them to shut down, then do it again. Until the prompts the bats bring up are closed, the server will restart evey time it shuts down then 30sec later BEC will do the same. Also place shortcuts to these in startup if you want the server to boot back on computer restart for those that arent keeping them online all of the time for test servers as well. EDIT: I didnt read the post. Just the title, But anyway batch would be the way to go if you ask me. Uses virtually no power of any sort from the box its running on. Any app however, will. Spot on, thats working great for me so far. Great. And yeah, this seems far more simple then a program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifordmc Posted December 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 It can be done with a .bat file easily. costs nothing. requires no download. This is mine. -snip- These will start and wait for them to shut down, then do it again. Until the prompts the bats bring up are closed, the server will restart evey time it shuts down then 30sec later BEC will do the same. Also place shortcuts to these in startup if you want the server to boot back on computer restart for those that arent keeping them online all of the time for test servers as well. EDIT: I didnt read the post. Just the title, But anyway batch would be the way to go if you ask me. Uses virtually no power of any sort from the box its running on. Any app however, will. I cant seem to get the BEC starter to run. It launches the bat but BEC itself does not start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flow0815 Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 I cant seem to get the BEC starter to run. It launches the bat but BEC itself does not start. try my version as i can say it works 100% perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Rogue Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 I had problems with Arma 2 not shutting down properly with the taskkill command via a batch file. Even with the /f switch enabled. Sometimes the app would not exit and then when the server restarted it would be on some random port since the old server still had hold of the intended port. So to fix that I use the #shutdown command in my BEC scheduler and then I have a program that runs the restart batch. System Scheduler is a free program that works great. It can start exe files, bat files, you name it. Haven't had a single hiccup since I started using this method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC_Robio Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 I had problems with Arma 2 not shutting down properly with the taskkill command via a batch file. Even with the /f switch enabled. Sometimes the app would not exit and then when the server restarted it would be on some random port since the old server still had hold of the intended port. So to fix that I use the #shutdown command in my BEC scheduler and then I have a program that runs the restart batch. System Scheduler is a free program that works great. It can start exe files, bat files, you name it. Haven't had a single hiccup since I started using this method. I've been using the same bat for over a year. And when it once did start a second instance of the arma server, I just increased the timeout. Haven't had a problem since. @echo off :initialize cls echo Killing current running server ... taskkill /IM arma3server.exe /F taskkill /IM Bec.exe /F echo Done! timeout 10 echo. echo. Rotate Logfiles cd C:\A3Epoch start "" "log-rotator.cmd" echo Done! timeout 5 goto start :start cd C:\A3Epoch echo Starting server again ... start "arma3" your startup params echo. :start_bec timeout 20 echo. cd C:\Bec echo Starting BEC again ... @start Bec.exe -f Config.cfg exit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oSoDirty Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 The BEC part can be a bit wonky, it made mine look in a different folder for the config, but once i moved it all was well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniflare Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 I have an extensive batch tool in general discussion. Batch tools 0.7.1. Take a look you might like it. More features to come. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cen Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 FD is worth every penny. Then you can download FD Fusion and allow your admins to start/restart the server from a web browser :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniflare Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Everything you have paid for I have made using bat files for free :). But I guess it is a 'little' easier :p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flow0815 Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 I would not shut down bec with batch file because it closes itself when server is gone. So no need to shut it down. Just set a timeout that server can restart right. BEC will try 30 seconds by default to connect to server if it can find server immediately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHBorn2Kill Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 This is an open source tool that I have been using for a while to run both my Arma 2 Epoch Server and BEC as a Windows service with good success. It's free and pretty simple to configure. It has the advantage of being able to start your Arma server and BEC automatically in the event of a power failure, or BSOD. I'm running both my A2 Epoch and A3 Epoch servers in a Windows 2008 (x64) environment. https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw Get the complied binaries for Windows here: (I am using version 1.6). http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/releases/com/sun/winsw/winsw/ To setup the service, copy the winsw-1.16-bin.exe to the directory alongside the executable you want to run as a server and rename it something logical. I call my Arma3 version: Arma3serversvc.exe Create a blank text file with the same name as the executable with a .xml extension. Arma3serversvc.xml Edit the xml as follows: <service> <id>arma3server</id> <name>Arma3server</name> <description>Arma3 Server Service.</description> <executable>C:\arma3server\arma3server.exe</executable> <arguments> -nosplash -nosound -mod=@Epoch;@EpochHive; -config=C:\arma3server\SC\config.cfg -ip=xx.xx.xx.xx -port=2302 -profiles=SC -cfg=C:\arma3server\SC\basic.cfg -name=SC</arguments> <logpath>C:\Arma3server\servicelogs</logpath> <logmode>append</logmode> </service> Modify the executable paths and arguments line to fit your Arma3 server installation. You can name the service what ever you like. The ID, name and description are up to you. Note I wouldn't use spaces in the id or service name however. Create a servicelogs folder in the location of the Arma3 server files. This will allow you to monitor startups, shutdowns, errors, etc. This is important. If you don't create a folder, the service install will fail. Open a command prompt (as administrator) and navigate to the location of the service executable file. At the command prompt enter: arma3serversvc.exe install If everything goes as planned, this will install the service. Check the services applet in Control Panel to see if the service is listed. If the install errors out check for typos or issues with the xml file and try again to install. You can uninstall the service with the uninstall switch if needed. For BEC, you have to add an additional option for working directory. Here is my xml file for BEC. <service> <id>beca3svc</id> <name>beca3svc</name> <description>BEC Arma3 Service.</description> <executable>C:\arma3server\bec\bec.exe</executable> <workingdirectory>C:\arma3server\bec</workingdirectory> <arguments> -f config.cfg --dsc</arguments> <logpath>C:\Arma3server\bec\servicelogs</logpath> <logmode>append</logmode> </service> Once the services are installed, start them and make sure they run without any errors. Connect to your server and RCON to see if BEC is running properly. Now it's a simple as making a small batch file and scheduling that via the Windows Task Scheduler to execute when you want the server to restart. @echo off net stop arma3server timeout 5 net start arma3server timeout 5 net stop beca3svc timeout 5 net start beca3svc Even though I have the BEC scheduler issue a #shutdown command (which shuts down BEC as well once the server connection drops) I issue a net stop for both the services anyway to ensure they are stopped. This won't hurt anything and provides some redundancy in case BEC errors and your scheduler stops running. Your server will restart anyway. You will want to adjust your batch file to rotate logs, make backups (or whatever) as you see fit. Both my Arma2 and Arma3 servers run on a 3 hour restart cycle. As services I can restart both servers and both BEC instances with one batch file. There are ways to stop and start services via a webpage with some .net sorcery, but you will have to google for that. Hope this helps someone as an alternative to Firedeamon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oSoDirty Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 U so nice B2K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phenim Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 here a mine server monitors included so if somehting crashes will auto start back up stopserver.bat @echo off TIMEOUT 25 tASKkill /im arma3server.exe Epoch.bat @echo off :start C:\Windows\System32\tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq arma3server.exe" 2>NUL | C:\Windows\System32\find /I /N "arma3server.exe">NUL if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto loop echo Server monitored is not running, will be started now start "" /wait "D:\Games\dedicated\arma3server.exe" -mod=@Epoch;@EpochHive; -config=D:\Games\dedicated\SC\config.cfg -port=2302 -profiles=SC -cfg=d:\gAMES\dedicated\SC\basic.cfg -name=SC echo Server started succesfully goto started :loop cls echo Server is already running, running monitoring loop :started C:\Windows\System32\timeout /t 10 C:\Windows\System32\tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq arma3server.exe" 2>NUL | C:\Windows\System32\find /I /N "arma3server.exe">NUL if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto loop goto start and BEC.bat @echo off :start C:\Windows\System32\tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq Bec.exe" 2>NUL | C:\Windows\System32\find /I /N "Bec.exe">NUL if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto loop echo Server monitored is not running, will be started now start "" /wait "D:\Games\BEC\Bec.exe" -f config.cfg echo Server started succesfully goto started :loop cls echo Server is already running, running monitoring loop :started C:\Windows\System32\timeout /t 10 C:\Windows\System32\tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq Bec.exe" 2>NUL | C:\Windows\System32\find /I /N "Bec.exe">NUL if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto loop goto start just get your scheduler.xml to run the stop server .bat and the other batch files do the rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3ckpwnzu Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 Quick question, does the #restart command in the scheduler restart the server and loot? Kind Regards, -b3ck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniflare Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 NoQuick question, does the #restart command in the scheduler restart the server and loot? Kind Regards, -b3ck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3ckpwnzu Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 Quick question, does the #restart command in the scheduler restart the server and loot? Kind Regards, -b3ck No So what does the #restart command actually do then? Kind Regards, -b3ck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniflare Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 It is meant for missions that actually end and is not designed with the DLL/hive extension in mind. They could possibly get it to work but would need a lot of code working. It works OK for stock a3 missions but not with epoch AFAIK, at least not atm and doubt it ever will tbh. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3ckpwnzu Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 It is meant for missions that actually end and is not designed with the DLL/hive extension in mind. They could possibly get it to work but would need a lot of code working. It works OK for stock a3 missions but not with epoch AFAIK, at least not atm and doubt it ever will tbh. Regards Just tested using #restart on my server, it does reset the map, everything is refreshed, including loot, doors etc.. if you are logged in and playing during the #restart you will lose items, I don't know what the trigger is or if it is an interval to save your data to the redis is so I cannot give a exact answer. All I know if I logged in my server, grabbed some loot, pushed the #restart command via Rcon and when I logged in I no longer had my items and I was in my previous spawn point. Kind Regards, -b3ck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsxownes Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 I've been using the same bat for over a year. And when it once did start a second instance of the arma server, I just increased the timeout. Haven't had a problem since. @echo off :initialize cls echo Killing current running server ... taskkill /IM arma3server.exe /F taskkill /IM Bec.exe /F echo Done! timeout 10 echo. echo. Rotate Logfiles cd C:\A3Epoch start "" "log-rotator.cmd" echo Done! timeout 5 goto start :start cd C:\A3Epoch echo Starting server again ... start "arma3" your startup params echo. :start_bec timeout 20 echo. cd C:\Bec echo Starting BEC again ... @start Bec.exe -f Config.cfg exit What are you using in your scheduler to start this .bat file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporny Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 <cmd>YourBatchfile.bat</cmd> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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