PowerShellGSM - PowerShell Game Server Manager

A Modular PowerShell tool to manage game servers.

This PowerShell script will take care of:

Installation
Backups
Updates
Monitoring
Restarts

Once started it registers a schedule task to check on your server status.

Supported Games

7 Days to Die
Ark: Survival Ascended
Astroneer
Icarus
Insurgency Sandstorm
Killing Floor 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Mordhau
Minecraft (Paperclip)
PixArk
Project Zomboid
Rust
Satisfactory
Squad
Starbound
Stationeers
Terraria
The Forest
Valheim
Valheim Plus
V Rising

Advantages

Faster than the other available tools
Lighter and more targeted backups
Modular
Expandable
Customizable

Installation

Manual

Git clone (or extract the zip of) this repository in any directory. (Ideally C:\ but it will work anywhere unless the path is too long)
Copy your server configuration file you want from the templates folder to configs folder

EG: copy icarus.psm1 from the templates folder to the configs folder.
Then edit this configuration file with Notepad++ or VSCode or whatever you like.
Then Copy and rename launchers/run.cmd to select your server configuration file.

EG: copy and rename run.cmd to icarus.cmd to start the icarus.psm1 Icarus server.

The launchers filename from the must match the configs filename.
Launch your server by double clikcing on your icarus.cmd file from the launchers folder.
The powershell window will open, install the server then stop the server to let you edit server files.
Once you have edited your config files, run the icarus.cmd file from the launchers folder once again.
On the second launch it will start the server and configure the scheduled task to keep the server running and updated.
To disable a server, disable the Scheduled Task from the Windows Task Scheduler.

Automated Installation Script

By @BananaAcid

https://gist.github.com/BananaAcid/1dc9117571967b26ceabc972009137ae

Requirements

A windows machine with at least PowerShell 5.1 installed (Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 or newer)

Some basic PowerShell knowledge.

Some networking basics to configure port forwarding.

The user running the script should have admin privileges but should not run it with admin privileges. They are only required for installing third parties like Java and Microsoft XNA.

Expanding the code

You can create pull requests for changes to this project.

Please follow the current structure and formating.

If you want to add support for more games, copy one of the configuration files and edit the values and launch parameters. You can then create a pull request to include your configuration here.

Disclaimer

I'm am in no way responsible for anything that this script will do, you are responsible for reading and understanding what this script will do before executing it.

This script will download and install third party softwares like 7Zip, SteamCMD, mcrcon, Java, Microsoft XNA, Paperclip, Terraria and any games you try to install.

annias / PowerShellGSM