Scheduled Rcon Tasks

This knowledgebase will show you how to set a scheduled rcon task. This can be used to do things such as making announcements to the server or using the saveark command before a restart.

Step 1: Open your Game Panel and browse to the Scheduled Tasks tab.

 

Step 2: Click the “New†button and select the “Console/Rcon Command†option.

Click the New button under the drop down.

 

 

Step 3: Enter your information here.

Rcon Password: This is your Admin Password

Command to execute: The Rcon command you wish to schedule, eg saveark. ( A list of commands can be found here - https://billing.gogaming.com/knowledgebase/75/ARK-Survival-Evolved-Admin-Commands.html) you don’t need to put cheat in front of the command.

Name: What your scheduled task is called, something simple to identify what this task does.

Enable: You can untick this if you wish to stop the scheduled task from running.

Type: Choose how often this task will run.

Start: Choose the date and time that this scheduled task will first run.

Recur every: Chose how often this scheduled task will recur, eg every 1 day.

Repeat Task: This can be ticked if you wish to run this task more than once every 24 hours.

Repeat Every: Select how often you want this rcon command to be repeated.

Repeat For: Select how long to repeat the task for, EG Repeat Every 6 hours, Repeat for every 24 hours will run the command 4 times within 24 hours.

Note: Any notes you wish to leave about the Scheduled task can be put here.

 
In the below example, I have set the server to broadcast that the server will be restarting in 10 minutes. This broadcast will happen every 8 hours after 5:50 PM

 
Step 4:
Click the save button, and your rcon task will now be scheduled to run.