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fpaezf/Counter-Strike-dedicated-server-admin-tool
A Counter-Strike 2 and Source engine based game servers RCON tool for Windows
A Windows GUI tool for managing Counter-Strike 2 and other Source engine game servers via RCON. It fills a real gap — HLSW is dead, Source Admin Tool is stale, and CS2 broke a lot of older tooling. Aimed at server operators who want a point-and-click admin panel rather than a raw console.
1. Covers both RCON (TCP) and A2S (UDP) query protocols, so you get both command execution and server status from one tool. 2. Ships useful operational features out of the box: scheduled commands, auto-broadcast messages, GeoIP flags, workshop map management — not just a raw command prompt. 3. Author extracted and published the RCON and A2S implementations as standalone VB.NET repos, so the protocol work is actually reusable even if the GUI isn't. 4. Explicitly handles CS2 specifics including CounterStrikeSharp and Metamod commands, which most older tools don't.
1. Source code is closed — only the RCON class is published. You can't audit it, fork it, or fix it yourself if the author goes quiet (last push was August 2024, and they already have). 2. Windows-only WinForms GUI with no CLI mode, so it's useless in a headless or Linux admin environment. 3. VB.NET in 2024 is a maintenance liability — the pool of contributors who will touch this is tiny, and the author openly calls it spaghetti. 4. No packaging or installer — unclear what the distribution story is beyond downloading a binary you can't inspect.