Counter Strike - Servers - Admins


CS server admin guide

This is only a general guide. It is aimed at server admins, public admins, and league admins.

Admin Guidelines

Being an admin means you and others should follow some small rules. These will depend on the who is running the server your admining for but here are a few guidelines:

• Try to give the player who is causing trouble, be it from spamming, or abusing others a chance. 1 warning at least, and if they carry on then kick/ban them.
• Being an admin means you will get abuse. The key is to remain cool. Except a small level of abuse and warn players to quit it or they will be kicked. It usually works :).

To get server access:
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Join the server and in the console type:

/password <password needed for players to join server>
Public servers won't have a password for players to enter before joining the server so this can be ignored.

/rcon_port <the server port>
Example server IP = 194.88.93.31:27020 port  = /rcon_port 27020
/rcon_password <admin password (rcon)>

To test the password has worked and your 'logged into' the server, type /rcon users and a list should appear. If not do the port + password thing again and if it still does not work check you have the right rcon password. 

Commands you will need:
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Enter them as /rcon <command>

/rcon say <message> 
This allows you to talk to everyone on the server. Useful if you want to talk to dead + alive players at the same time.

/rcon sv_password <password needed for players to join server>
Add a password to the server. Any player trying to connect will then need to type /password <pass>. Example = /rcon sv_password test. To turn off the password type /rcon sv_password none.

Tip from Nautilus:
Using "/rcon map" is a good way of clearing people off a server. First you need to
warn them you're using the server then set the password. If they still refuse to leave just use "/rcon map" and they'll not get back on because of the pass, but people you give the pass to will be able to get on. 

/rcon changelevel <map> 
Example de_dust = /rcon changelevel de_dust
/rcon map <map> 
Example de_dust = /rcon map de_dust NOTE: this will change the map but kick everyone off server when it's done. Use the changelevel instead! This will change the map and everyone will appear on it right away  :)
/rcon sv_restartround <time in seconds> 
Restarts who game without having to load map again. Example /rcon sv_restartround 5 will restart game in 5 seconds.  
/rcon mp_autoteambalance 1/0
Stops the server trying to balancing out the teams. 0 = off, 1 = on
/rcon mp_friendlyfire 1/0
Turns on/off friendlyfire 1 = Players can shoot anyone, 0 = Players can't harm teammates
/rcon mp_timelimit <minutes>
Timelimit for each game on a map.  
/rcon mp_roundtime <seconds>
Roundtime, which is the time before the start of each round. Usually set to 5 seconds.
mp_tkpunish 0/1 
if set to 1, TK'ers will sit out next round.
mp_hostagepenalty X 
X = max. number of hostages you can kill before the server boots you out... setting this to 0 will shut off this command.
mp_logmessages 0/1 
used for server admins to spit out chat messages in their log files.
mp_forcechasecam 0/1
Setting this to 1 will force chasecam to be teammate only.
(useful for LAN + League games)

/rcon kick <playername>  
Example. A player called TreeBob is playing up. Type /rcon kick treebob
/rcon users 
Shows a list of players on the servers + their WONIDs. These can be used to kick or ban a player from a server.
/rcon kick <WONID> 
Get the ID of the player from using the /rcon users command.
/rcon banid <minutes> <WONID> kick 
This can be used to ban a user temporally from a server. Again the WONID is seen with the /rcon users command. Useful if the player once kicked keeps trying to reenter the server.

Also:

/rcon users 
Shows a list of players on the servers + their Numbers. These can be used to kick or ban a player from a server.
/rcon kick #<number> 
Get the number  ID of the player from using the /rcon users command.
/rcon banid <minutes> #<number> kick 
This can be used to ban a user temporally from a server. Again the WONID is seen with the /rcon users command. Useful if the player once kicked keeps trying to reenter the server.

EXAMPLE: 
ID  Name      WONID
21 Treebob   324988493 
...

To kick = /rcon kick #21
To ban = /rcon banid 90 #21 kick  (90 minute ban)

For a list of all the commands for Half-Life and Counter-Strike then check out:
http://server.counter-strike.net/commands.html