Rust Remote Manager 1.0.6

NOTE: DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN HALTED DUE TO LOW DEMAND. IF RUST UPDATES ITS WAYS OF WORKING THIS WILL NO LONGER WORK.

This website tool, is a way for you to be able to have an organized list of bans and manage them from here. You can also manage online players, plugins and monitor a live console. I plan on expanding this product to make it more of a centralized hub for your server admins.

Dependencies:

• .NET 6.0
• Enhanced Ban System Setup with MySQL (Optional)

IMPORTANT NOTE: The price of this tool will go higher as the tool gets more features. Not to an enormous amount, but still worth saying now.

Features:

• Centralized ban management via enhanced ban system.
• Unban from web page
• Live player counts
• Live RCON console to monitor your server
• RCON command sender to manage your server like banning, muting, kicking, oxide commands, etc..
• Online Player Management (Still very basic)

Future Ideas:

• Scheduled commands
• More statistics
• Manage online players using the web UI instead of the console view  Added.
• Reports based on a certain period of time
• Authentication (Maybe)

How to setup:

• (Optional) Setup https://umod.org/plugins/enhanced-ban-system#configuration correctly and note down the username, password, database name and server IP, as they will be used in the following steps.

For Windows:

• Edit appsettings.json and add the proper values for the DefaultConnection, under ConnectionStrings and add your MySQL server ip, database, user and password
• Still in the appsettings.json, set your RustServerIP, RCONPort and RCONPassword accordingly
• If you want to change the default ports and hosts the website can run on, edit the launchSettings.json file
• To run the website, you have 2 options. 
  • The simpler one, being to run the RustBanManager.exe executable and connect to the website using your browser of choice
  • The more complex one is setting up IIS on your windows server using this guide: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/?view=aspnetcore-6.0

For Linux:

• Edit appsettings.json and add the proper values for the DefaultConnection, under ConnectionStrings and add your MySQL server ip, database, user and password
• Still in the appsettings.json, set your RustServerIP, RCONPort and RCONPassword accordingly
• If you want to change the default ports and hosts the website can run on, edit the launchSettings.json file
• To run the website, you will need to set it up manually, since you cannot just a .exe directly. Set it up with the following:
  • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/host-and-deploy/server?view=aspnetcore-3.1#linux-with-apache

Example Enhancedbansystem config with equivalent appsettings.json file information below:

 "DataType - MySQL - Database": "rust",  

"DataType - MySQL - Host": "127.0.0.1",  

"DataType - MySQL - Pass": "password",  

"DataType - MySQL - Port": 3306,  

"DataType - MySQL - use": true,  

"DataType - MySQL - User": "user",

For example, if this is your data in the ban system config, your configuration for the plugin implementation section would be the following:

"PluginImplementations": {
    "EnhancedBanSystem": {
      "use": "false",
      "server": "127.0.0.1",
      "database": "rust",
      "user": "rustuser",
      "password": "password"
    }
  }

It is arguably way easier to simply run the tool locally on your windows computer, and probably safer, as there is no authentication for the website.