Cloud Login

As of v6.3.1

UltiTools-API v6.3.1 links a server to UltiCloud with a device code and UltiCloud protocol 2.1.0. The 6.3.0 magic-link login and its cloud service stop at the cut-over.

/ulticloud login, /ulticloud logout, /ulticloud status and /ulticloud reconnect connect a server to UltiCloud for remote management through the UltiPanel dashboard. As of v6.3.1 a linked server holds only a revocable credential of its own, never a user account token, and the framework speaks UltiCloud protocol 2.1.0 to wss://api.ultikits.com/v1/agent. The commands run from the server console or over RCON and need operator rights.

Linking a server

/ulticloud login asks UltiCloud for a device code and prints it:

========================================
 To link this server to UltiCloud, open:
 <verification URI>
 and enter the code:
 BCDF-GHJK
 Or open this link directly: <complete verification link>
========================================
The code expires in 10 minutes. Waiting for confirmation...

Open the address in a browser, sign in to UltiCloud, enter the code and confirm. The server's name is chosen on that confirmation page; the server's MOTD is only the suggested default. The code is case- and hyphen-insensitive. When the owner confirms, the console logs UltiCloud: this server is now linked as <name> (server ID <server ID>). and the connection starts.

Situation	What the command does
The server is already linked	Refuses and names /ulticloud logout
A second /ulticloud login within 60 seconds	Refuses with the remaining seconds
The owner denies on the confirmation page	Stops polling with UltiCloud: linking was denied on the confirmation page. Run /ulticloud login to try again.
Nobody confirms within 10 minutes	Stops polling with UltiCloud: the device code expired before it was confirmed. Run /ulticloud login to get a new code.
/ulticloud logout while waiting	Cancels the request; confirming afterwards does not link the server

Over RCON the command answers at once that the code and the link will be printed in the server console, and every line of the block above is also written to the console log. An RCON reply closes when the command returns, while the code arrives a moment later.

The server credential

The credential is stored as the cloud_credential entry of <server root>/.ultikits/credentials.json, the framework-owned file that already held the 6.3.0 token. On a POSIX file system the file is owner-only. The credential does not expire and has no refresh token. UltiCloud may rotate it: the framework writes the new credential to disk before it acknowledges the rotation, keeps using the old one on the open connection, and uses the new one from the next connection. The remote file API never serves the .ultikits directory.

/ulticloud logout revokes the credential on UltiCloud, then deletes it, stops reconnecting and stops every cloud feature. When UltiCloud cannot be reached, logout still deletes the credential locally and warns: The cloud credential may still be valid. Revoke it in the panel: server settings > Revoke credential.

Operator commands

Command	What it does
/ulticloud login	Requests a device code, prints it, and waits for the confirmation
/ulticloud logout	Revokes and deletes the credential and stops all cloud features
/ulticloud status	Prints UltiCloud: Linked as <name> (server ID <server ID>) and the connection state, or that the server is not linked
/ulticloud reconnect	Retries the connection at once, at most once every 10 seconds; says so when the server is already connected or connecting, not linked, or needs an UltiTools upgrade

Connection and reconnect

The connection is kept by one state machine. After a lost connection it retries with a random delay between 1 second and an upper bound that doubles from 1 second to 60 seconds, opens a new socket on every attempt and reads the credential afresh. The console shows one line per attempt and per scheduled retry, never the credential. A connection counts as established only when UltiCloud's welcome arrives within 15 seconds; the framework then sends a heartbeat every 30 seconds and reconnects after 90 seconds without an answer.

Some answers from UltiCloud end or change the retry cycle:

UltiCloud answers	What the framework does
HTTP 401, or close code 4401 (credential revoked, server deleted)	Stops, deletes the credential and the buffered cloud state, and logs UltiCloud rejected this server's credential (it was revoked or is no longer valid). The saved credential was deleted. Run /ulticloud login to link this server again.
HTTP 426, or close code 4426	Stops and keeps the credential; the console says this UltiTools version is no longer accepted and names the minimum version when UltiCloud sends one. Upgrade UltiTools and restart
HTTP 402, or close code 4402 (plan limit)	Keeps the credential and pauses, see below
HTTP 429, close code 4400 or 4429, another 4xx	Waits longer: a random delay up to a bound that grows from 60 seconds to 15 minutes, and at least the Retry-After of a 429
Close code 4000, three times in a row	Another connection uses the same credential; reconnecting stops after the third, and the console says so
A welcome with another server ID than the linked one	Stops, keeps the credential, and tells the operator to contact support or log out and link again

Plan limit pause

When the UltiCloud account exceeds its plan (for example a Pro plan expired with more servers than the free plan allows, after a 7-day grace period), UltiCloud refuses the connection with HTTP 402 or closes it with 4402. The framework keeps the credential, prints the reason, the end of the grace period and the plan's manage link once, and then retries quietly every 15 minutes. /ulticloud status shows paused — plan limit reached; retrying every 15 minutes. After the owner renews the plan or chooses this server to keep, the next retry connects, or /ulticloud reconnect connects at once. No new login is needed.

Capability switches

The switches under ultipanel.capabilities in plugins/UltiTools/config.yml decide what the panel may do. As of v6.3.1 the server declares to UltiCloud only what they allow, and checks the switch again for every request.

Key	Default	Panel feature
monitoring	true	Server status and the player, plugin and world snapshots
logs	true	Live console log stream
player-events	true	Player join, leave and command events
file-read	true	Reading and listing files and module configuration
file-write	false	Writing files and module configuration
file-delete	false	Deleting files
commands	false	Remote commands, subject to the blocklist
server-properties	false	Reading and editing server.properties
power-actions	false	Stopping and restarting the server from the panel (new in v6.3.1)
player-actions	false	Kicking players, changing their game mode, teleporting them (new in v6.3.1)

Power and player actions are off by default. A 6.3.0 config.yml gains the two new keys once at start-up, set to false; only the missing keys are added, every value and comment the operator wrote stays byte for byte, and a file layout the framework cannot extend that way gets one warning and keeps both switches off. Error reports keep their own key, ultipanel.logging.error-reporting.enabled. After /ul reload a changed switch takes effect at once, and the server reconnects when the set of declared capabilities changed. See Panel Integration for what each feature sends and accepts.

Upgrading from 6.3.0

The 6.3.0 login used the owner's account token. It no longer works, and nothing migrates automatically:

• At the first start of 6.3.1 the saved 6.3.0 token is deleted from credentials.json, with one warning ending Run /ulticloud login to re-attach this server. The server's install ID in the same file is kept and sent with the next device login, so the panel can attach the login to the existing server.
• Run /ulticloud login once. The server keeps no other trace of the old login.

Module API compatibility

CloudAuthManager remains internal (@ApiStatus.Internal). UltiCloudRequests, the 6.3.0 helper that sent UltiLogin's magic-link requests, is deprecated and removed in 6.4.0. As of v6.3.1 every call answers PATH_NOT_ALLOWED and sends nothing, so UltiLogin 2.0.0's /panel stops working; UltiLogin 2.1.0 uses the player-link API instead. A module that wants a player to reach the panel uses that API; one with secret-carrying commands registers them as sensitive (see Panel Integration).

The complete list of 6.3.1 changes, deprecations and known limitations is the "UltiCloud protocol 2.1.0" section of COMPATIBILITY.md.

Contributors

Ling Bao