MeshCentral - Reports, SSH Keys, Auto-Lock, Unlimited Guest, MeshCtrl

One more week with plenty more MeshCentral features and improvements. This week, Bryan Roe did many more crucial improvements to the Linux agents, notably improved remote desktop support in edge cases. The MeshCentral server got a new report generation feature, web based SSH improvements and much more. Again, many thanks for the community for reporting issues and helping move MeshCentral forward. In detail:
  • Linux Agents Improvements. As a result of community requests, Bryan Roe has released new Linux agents with improved remote desktop support. Specifically, the new agent correctly handles X Window resolution changes including when transitioning from the login screen to a user desktop. This should make remote desktop a more usable on more Linux distributions.
  • Report Generation. The community has been asking for MeshCentral to generate reports for a while, especially a report on who is doing remote control sessions on what devices, when and for how long. This can be used for auditing purposes but also for billing customers. MeshCentral now has a first version of the reporting tool in the “My Events” tab. Reports can be generated for any time range, filtered by device group and grouped by device, users or by calendar days. The data can be exported in CSV format. This offers a lot of flexibility in how reports are generated.
  • Web based SSH improvements. The built-in web based SSH client was improved in the last week when the SSH client is used with devices that have an agent. Now SSH sessions support certificate key authentication and the server can be set to remember the credentials of the SSH session for a given device. This makes SSH sessions super convenient and secure.
  • Unlimited Guest Sessions. In the past, guest sessions where limited to a maximum of 4 days. Due to community demand, a new “unlimited” option was added making it possible to create a link that will instantly open a remote desktop session to a device that works until it’s revoked. This can be super useful for quick access to remote devices.
  • MeshCtrl Device Filters. MeshCtrl is the MeshCentral command line tool that performs operations on a MeshCentral server much like the web interface. It’s perfect for automating operations and this week, the “ListDevices” command got a big improvement with the ability to filter devices based on the same filter string that is supported on the desktop web site. For example, you can add “kitched and g:home” as a filter to only show computers with the word “kitchen” in the name that is part of a device group with “home” in the name. Makes the results much more useful.

This is just some of improvements this week, many more bugs have also been addressed. As usual, feedback is appreciated. If you see any problems or need support on something, please create a new issue on GitHub or help other users. For more information, visit the portal at https://meshcentral.com.

Enjoy!
Ylian
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