The Ghost Recon Utilities started as a plain IP tracker which was used to identify player names with their IPs. The IPs were then used to BAN players who were not serious. Version 2 started as an update; however, due largely to RSi Brain it became an all inclusive set of tools for managing a dedicated server.

Now it is a fully functional Server Side Application that is also controllable from the WEB interface. The access to the WEB COMMAND functions is controled with IP subnet ranges and passwords so you can relax about security. And, it provides a VERY small WEB server for your stats so there is no need to install large HTTPD daemons. But, you will most likely want to offload all the stats to your web site, so GRUNT can do that for you too...!

Main Tabs:

1. Server Status - this panel displays the current state as reported from the server. Allowing you to launch the server at startup, and will advertise on ©UBI as well as restart the server when it crashes.
2. Server Setup - this panel displays the standard setup features for GhostRecon including install directory, TCP ports being used, IP address, Server Name, etc...
3. Mod Setup - this panel is one of the hottest features, it allows you to enable and disable Mods as well as game types and indivitual missions within a mod.
4. Dedicated Setup - this panel is where you will find all the controls for managing game types, team options, weapons, etc...
5. Recording Tab is where mission result information is maintained. On this panel, you will control how long mission files (missionstats.htm, defaultreplay.rpf) and your Ban list are kept. You can also search the save mission files for a given string. This feature is used to find a player's missions which might be up for review. Clicking the move replay button quickly put the file into the proper GR directory for your replay. An advanced feature on this panel is the Send to Remote Server. Send to Server allows you to have the mission files sent to another WEB or Database server for processing and storage. This is great for those people with multiple servers who want to calculate stats from all servers and display in one place.
6. Track Ip - What every server owner needs, a way to control the BAN list. Know who is on your server! Search the shared database to find names-ips that have not visited your server, but need to be banned due to aliances. This is a very powerful tool and you are responsible for the proper use of this information.
7. Statistics - This panel simply displays the stats that will be available to you for WEB display via XML. It shows server and player statistics.
8. Web Tab - the web tab is where you will control your mini-HTTP server. The server is used to display server information to your players. The WWW site can be customized to your scheme via CSS or simple changes to the index.htm file. There are a couple of samples in the WEB subdirectory. Second, the mini-HTTP server is used to allow remote control of the Utils. You can send commands to the Utils from any website or browser.

Well that is the basic overview. I hope you find the tool to be useful. Dont forget, please help by reporting any problems you find in the Bug database.

Col. BlackHawk

*****GRUNT v2.0 Frequently Asked Questions***** Written by: Wetwork (United Federation)Wetwork@Unitedfed.org This list of FAQ's was compiled over the creation time of the GRUNT program and hopefully will answer some questions that you may encounter with your use of the Ghost Recon Utilities n Tools.

Q: What is Grunt
A: GRUNT is a program for managing, recording and tracking players and game statistics for Ghost Recon.

Q: How does it do that?
A: Ghost Recon naturaly records statistics on all players that enter a dedicated GR server. GRUNT takes advantage of these statistics with a clever bit of coding by Col.BlackHawk from Battalion Command.

Q: Cool! what else can it do?
A: Well..... With this one program you can Start & Stop a GR dedicated server, Change Mods & Rearrange there order of priority, Track player statistics & IP's and many many other useful features.

Q:How do i instal GRUNT v2.0
A: Simply unzip the GRUNT.rar file into a folder called GRUNT. The first time you launch it, It will ask you where your Ghost recon folder lives. By default on a windows system it is located in C:/Program Files/Red Storm Entertainment/Ghost Recon. When GRUNT detects the file Ghost Recon.exe it will launch the program.

Q:Can I install GRUNT over former versions of BCUTILS
A: NO its best to delete older versions of the program and install a new fresh version of GRUNT v 2.0. GRUNT takes advantage of different coding than earlier versions

Q:I have installed some new mods on my dedicated server. How do i change what one is the primary mod?
A: Under the "Mods" tab you will see your installed mods on the left side of the screen with check boxes next to them. Check the mods that you want to activate and using the up & down arrow buttons move the mod that you want to have priorty to the top of the list.

Q: When i click on a particular mod that i have installed, GRUNT gives me an error message when i try to check the box.
A:The mod file is corrupt. Try reinstalling the mod

Q:I just got done installing a few new server sided mods and when i click on the Start server button all it does is cause GR to reboot over and over again what can i do?
A:First uncheck the box in the server tab that says "Restart Server on crash" next close GR if you havent allready. Go into your GRUNT folder that you made when you unzipped the insaller, Click on the BCDATA folder and then go into the folder named BACKUP. find the Current.BC file that has the date to just before installing the new mods. Copy that file and put it into C:\Program Files\Red Storm Entertainment\Ghost Recon\Data\Save\Script folder and change the name to Current.but this should fix the problem

Q:How do i track player IP's from GRUNT & Ban players
A: From the Track IP tab in the program you can search for a particular player name or an IP address. when the program finds a match from your server or any server that is using GRUNT the results will be displayed on the left box. If you wish to ban a player it will not effect other servers. You can have GRUNT send the ban file to other servers or a hosting server which can be used to retrieve and synchronize the files. Contact CBH to get the PHP code!

Q:Can i disable a particular map or game type in a mod?
A: Whey yes you can! under the mods tab when you highlight a mod you will see the game types and maps come up in the middle and right windows click on the check box to enable or disable a particlar game or map within that mod

Q:Can the data that GRUNT collects be sent to a 3rd party web server
A: yes it can! under the recording tab, Click on the statistics that you wish to send and the server URL into the box provided, Userid and password into the provided boxes and GRUNT will sent those stats to the address provided at the end of the game. You can also choose what data format you want the transmittion to go accross HTTP.FTP, ETC...(due to general use, we have only implemented the HTML file upload. Contact CBH for PHP code to recieve and process the files on a web server)

Q:How Long does the GRUNT program save the data files that it saves and backs up?
A: you can set how long GRUNT holds on to the data by going into the recording tah and choosng a data from the pull down menu you can also check the data types that you would like to record by clicking on the desired checkboxes for MissionStats, Replays & BanList

Q:Can i find stats on a particular player that has visited my server?
A:Under the recording tab there is a field where you can search for mission data for a particular players name as well as a date range you would like GRUNT to search within. All stats files that the players name is in will be displayed in the window below the search field. Clicking on the button "Move Replay files to GR Folder" will copy the replay files to the Saves file in the Ghost Recon folder

Q: Whats the deal with web services?
A: The web service provide two functions, First its a basic web server which you can provide information needed to run a websever with out the overhead of Apache or IIS web services. Second it provides access to activate features of this program with registration. To deactivate this feature delete all files in the WEB folder in the GRUNT directiory.

Q:How do i change the game type that the server starts with?
A:Under the Dedicated tab you will see all the settings that you desire to program what ever you wish for when GRUNT first launches GR dedicated.

Q:When i launch the dedicated and i chat it shows my name as Defplayr, how do i change that?
A:Under the setup tab change the field marked "Admin Name" and reboot the dedicated

Q:Can GRUNT reboot the dedicated server if it crashes?
A:yes it will if the box marked "Restart on crash" is checked in the servers tab. GRUNT will take care of everything

How to record and display stats will be done soon!

GRUNT was developed using .Net from MS.
Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 1.0

The .NET Framework runs on:
Microsoft Windows® 98
Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 (SP 6a required)
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)
Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP2 Recommended)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Software Requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later (install Internet Explorer 6.0)

Thats about it for now. Let me know if I missed something you wanted.

System Requirements Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Typical Installation Requirements.

GRUNTs allows you to track and record each username and its IP address. You may chose to not share IPs collected. If you choose not to share, then you will not be able to see other server owner's IPs. This data is tracked to allow admins the ability to ban users who abuse their rights or who do not follow the rules of the server. These IPs are not to be used for any other purpose. Although it is easy to determine the IP addresses of people attaching to your server, this tool makes it easy. It is not the intent of this tool to provide the IP addresses to anyone except server managers who are working toward fair play. The author of this tool nor the supporting teams of this tool shall be in any way responsible for mis-use of the information it provides.