WARDOGS admin tools compared

The short version

• Need to kick someone right now, nothing else: the XGamingServer RCON console — free, no sign-up.
• Want to run the panel on your own machine and read the code: Warcon — open source and self-hosted.
• Also run Arma Reforger servers: WarGuardian covers both games.
• Want an admin team, rules that moderate for you, a Discord bot and a server website in one free hosted panel: WARPANEL.

WARPANEL

A hosted admin panel and RCON tool for WARDOGS community servers. Free for every server; Premium and Pro add higher limits and extras.

• Live player list, messages, kick, ban and unban, team moves, map changes, match end and restart.
• Rules in plain language that moderate on their own, with a preview of what they would have done in the last 24 hours.
• Roles for your admin team, who sign in with their own Steam account; every action is logged.
• Discord bot with leaderboards, staff alerts and seeding calls; a website for your server.
• Kill feed with stats and records; made for phones as well as PCs.
• The RCON password is stored encrypted and never shown to your team.

Warcon

An open-source (MIT) RCON panel for WARDOGS. You can run it yourself with Docker, or use the hosted copy at console.warcon.app. Warcon worked out and documented the WARDOGS RCON protocol, which other tools (WARPANEL included) build on.

• Live players, kick, ban, kill, whisper and team changes; one ban list across your servers.
• Map and match control, rotation editing and map sets.
• Automation rules such as welcome whispers, scheduled broadcasts, a name filter and team balance, with a dry run against the last 24 hours.
• Match history, player history and public leaderboards.
• Discord through webhooks (audit events, join alerts, a live status card); per-server roles.
• Best for: owners who want to self-host and read or change the code.

WarGuardian

A hosted RCON panel for WARDOGS and Arma Reforger servers, focused on moderation and ban review. One server is free with every feature; paid plans add more servers.

• Private server bans and shared community ban lists.
• Player review with a risk score, plus kill-feed totals and weapon mix per player.
• Roles for each community and server; staff sign in with Discord.
• Discord alerts for ban-list records.
• Best for: communities that run both WARDOGS and Arma Reforger, or want ban review first.

XGamingServer RCON console

A free web RCON console from the hosting company XGamingServer. No sign-up: enter the server's IP, RCON port and password and send commands from the browser.

• Live players and status; kill, kick or ban players; restart or end the match.
• Works on desktop, tablet and phone browsers.
• The password isn't stored by the site (you can save it in your own browser).
• No team accounts, automation, Discord or logs.
• Best for: a quick one-off action.

How to choose

If you admin alone and only now and then, a console is enough. Once you have a team, the questions change: can moderators act without the RCON password, is every action logged, does the server get moderated when nobody is online, and do your players see leaderboards in Discord?

All of these tools need the same three things from you: the server's public IP, its RCON port (7776 by default) and the RCON password. You can try more than one: connecting a tool doesn't change your server's settings.

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