Getting Started

Before installing eBot, you must understand some core concepts of the setup and the game.

What is eBot ?

• CS2 (and previously CS:GO) match manager
• Uses only RCON to connect to the server
• Listens to logs via HTTP only
• Allows players interaction through chat commands
• Provides statistics for the match / tournament
• Uses a plugin "CSay" to provide more RCON utilities
• Can be installed on a different server than the game server

What isn't eBot ?

• A server plugin
• Single match manager

Architecture

eBot is composed of 3 separate parts:

• The main application: This is the brain. It connects to the server, parses the logs and manages the match.
• The logs-receiver: It collects the logs from the game servers and then dispatches to a queue.
• The web application: This is where you can create matches, control them or simply check the statistics.

Those 3 parts are split into 3 differents projects for now:

• eBot-CSGO
• ebot-project
• eBot-CSGO-Web

Currently, eBot dispatches the logs to a redis queue.

The logs-receiver (ebot-project) can be run on a different server from the eBot server if desired.

RCON & logs

eBot is simple: it just connects to your game server via RCON, and knows what happens on the server by the logs.

Your CS2 server only needs to be reachable from eBot, and your CS2 server must be able to reach your logs-receiver. There are no more complex setup due to UDP forwarding or pain with IP mapping, eBot send the logs with the IP of the server.