MeshCentral2 - Next evolution in web computer management

For the last eight years, I have been designing and building MeshCentral. It’s a wonderful web site for remote management of computers, cell phones and devices. A few months back, I started looking as to where I want to go with MeshCentral. Web technologies have comes a long ways in eight years. For example, web sockets did not exist and browsers where a lot less powerful. These days web frameworks and IoT devices have changed the landscape. It’s also possible to code things in a much simpler way. As a result, I started working on MeshCentral2 and today, I am making it available for the first time. This is a very early alpha, only works with Intel® AMT on local networks, but it’s an interesting start and you can already see the benefits.

One of the first big changes is that MeshCentral2 server is now completely built on NodeJS enabling it to run on Windows, Linux and OSX. It’s now a single easy to install package and the web interface is now fully interactive. You never need to hit “refresh” anymore, everything you see is live and real-time. Here are some of the benefits of MeshCentral2:
  • Super easy to install. Just extract & run. Easy to upgrade, it’s all one package.
  • Real-time user interface. Using an improved message bus, message dispatching is a lot better.
  • Runs on Windows, Linux, OSX. This can reduce the cost of running the server, it can also run on tiny IoT devices.
  • No need for a database. Uses a small schema-less database, will scale to MongoDB in the future.
  • Improved Intel® AMT support. Integration of Mesh Commander and Interceptor.
Of course, this is very early code and it’s going to be a long time until MeshCentral2 is anywhere near feature parity with MeshCentral. If you have Intel® AMT machines on a local network and want to give MeshCentral2 a try, take a look at the installation instructions here: http://www.meshcommander.com/meshcentral2/installation.

This is just the start, much more to come…
Ylian Saint-Hilaire
http://meshcommander.com/meshcentral2


MeshCentral2 has the same look and feel as the original MeshCentral, but it’s built differently.
We use NodeJS for the server and a large web application on the browser side.
Makes everything real-time and a lot more efficient.



The new MeshCentral2 architecture is based completely on NodeJS.
The components in green are already built, the ones in gray are still to come.



MeshCentral2 has a very different architecture and design from the original MeshCentral.

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