Technical solution for updating and managing online games in Internet cafes

As we all know, today's Internet cafe businesses are dominated by online games, accounting for about of the total. Because of this, the network administrators of Internet cafes are faced with the following problems: first, today's online games are full of resources, how to choose, and how to introduce new online games? Second, various online games are frequently upgraded due to various reasons such as content updates, vulnerability fixes, and anti-plug-ins. How can this problem be solved? Third, how can we manage existing online games? Is it closed or open? Fourth, Management of Online Game plug-ins. These problems cause a headache for all network administrators.

For the management of online games, I think every network manager has his own management methods and experience. This article describes the technical solutions I have developed over several years of practice and continuous improvement. I would like to share them with you and share them with you for your reference only. If you have any good suggestions, please Mail me:

Hmdn@ah163.com. Of course, the solution I have discussed is only for those with disks. If you are using a diskless Internet cafe, skip this step.

I. Game Management

1. Open Management

At present, Internet cafe systems all adopt recovery cards or restoration software to protect them from intentional or unintentional damages. So, is the disk used to install online games protected or not? My solution is as follows: Hard Disks are generally divided into three zones. c disks are installed with chess and card game software, such as the operating system and player, chat software, and lianzhong. d disks are installed with single-host and LAN games, online Games are installed on an edisk. Installation of restoration software only protects disk C and disk D, and disk e is not protected, that is, open management is adopted for online games.

Some may ask, what if online games are not protected by viruses? What should I do if I am deleted by a netizen? What should I do if a netizen downloads a video in disorder? And so on. Please do not be dry, continue to read the following to know, since open, it is certainly necessary to take some protective measures.

2. virus protection

Nowadays, network viruses are prevalent. If you do not pay attention to the virus, the whole Lan may be paralyzed. Therefore, installing anti-virus software is unavoidable. At the same time, installing anti-virus software can also prevent manual downloading of Trojans and other destructive programs. We recommend that you use the Norton Enterprise Edition anti-virus software to facilitate upgrade management. Of course, the development of viruses and Trojans is too fast. To create a truly secure Internet access environment for Internet users, we still need to cooperate with some other protection measures, for more information, see "Internet cafe system security protection measures".

3. synchronous update

Each Internet cafe now has a separate machine, either a toll collector or a dedicated game, file, or movie server. We can use this machine as a standard "game server ". Install common online games on this dedicated "game server", just like the following clients. In this way, all updates are server-oriented, each time the client runs a game, it does not call the game program from the game installation directory, but uses the LAN synchronization software to automatically synchronize game files and run the game program after completion. In this way, if the game is updated, you only need to update the program on the server. Because the client is not protected, it can be synchronized once it runs. In addition, even if the game file is infected or accidentally deleted, it will be automatically copied from the server during running. Even if the number of game files is large, it is believed that it will not take much time to copy the files in a mb lan, which is acceptable to netizens.

4. Game Testing

For the latest online games, the market is unknown, and it is impossible to blindly install and promote them in an all-round way. It can only be tested in a small area. Therefore, for new online games, they are generally only installed on the server. To be played by netizens, they also use the synchronous method to copy to the E disk for running. If a game needs to change the registry, you can extract the registry change items and use plug-ins to manage them. And then fully synchronize the installation.

5. Regular updates

With the aforementioned synchronization method, it is much easier to manage online games. However, you cannot be lazy. When a chess and card game is updated, You need to modify the Registry. Generally, you can perform a regular update in a month or so. You can download Minor updates by yourself, the program is not very big, and it is not very troublesome in the broadband network. In addition, to prevent Internet users from downloading things on the E drive, you can perform full synchronization through regular updates every month to clear all unnecessary files.

2. Plug-in management

With the update of online games, another problem also arises-plug-in update management. Although there are a lot of plug-in management software, I have been using the batch processing method, I think it is very convenient and easy to use. I only keep several commonly used plug-ins on the client, and all other plug-ins are placed in a dedicated folder on the server, so that the plug-in folder can be used as a shortcut on each client, however, the netizens only see batch processing files one by one. When the netizens run the corresponding batch processing plug-in, they can copy the plug-in files on the server to the desktop of the Local Machine and run the plug-in program.

Here is a simple example of Windows 98. We hope you can understand the batch processing:

@ Xcopy \ Server \ D disk \ plug-in management \ XX plug-in \ *. * c: \ windows \ desktop/s copy all XX plug-in files to the local desktop)

@ Start.exe c: \ windows \ desktop \ wg.exerun the copied external program, which is called wg.exe)

Batch Processing is also very convenient to manage plug-ins. The update, test, and anti-virus operations of plug-ins are carried out on the server, which is simple and quick.

3. Remote update

The above is only designed for a single LAN, but it is not fully applicable to professional network management. Like comrade "Birdman 520", if one person manages the maintenance work of more than a dozen Internet cafes and encounters an urgent game update job, which Internet cafe should you go to first? I'm not happy to go to dongjia first. I'm not satisfied with going to Zhangjia first. Therefore, we must treat each other equally at this time. The best way is to avoid any mistakes and avoid any mistakes. However, to take money, you need to take actions for others. What should I do? Next we will talk about this problem-remote update.

Remote update. This is a problem that must be considered and solved by every professional network administrator. In fact, it is also very simple, as long as a little extension on the basis of the above solution. We can create an FTP server on an internet cafe game server, which is very convenient for professional network administrators to update the game. You just need to upload it to each Internet cafe server at home, easy enough! In this way, you can easily deal with game updates for multiple Internet cafes.

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