MeshCentral Blog

Lots is going on with MeshCentral, just yesterday Bryan Roe released a new MeshAgent for Windows with many improvements. An improved installation dialog box, logo customization and, to continue MeshCentral’s leadership in security, a new agent code signing locking feature that will surely be used by many to improve trust and security of their MeshCentral installation. In addition to this, we have many more server improvements to cover. In detail: MeshAgent with improved installation dialog box . The new MeshAgent for Windows is much improved with months of changes and bug fixes. The most noticeable feature is by far the new installation dialog with the new logo and connection details button. The new installer is a lot friendlier and easier on end-users. MeshAgent with improved customizations . In addition to all the existing agent customizations available in prior versions, the MeshAgent has new server settings for the installation text and logo. You can now set your own 200x200 PNG c...

We are starting 2022 with many more features and improvements to MeshCentral with the release cadence continuing to be around two new versions per week. The big news since the new year was the release of all new mesh agents (Windows, Linux, MacOS) with many bug fixes and improvements. One of the most notable improvements is the new user consent dialog box on Windows that now includes more details and the account picture. There is also a new Danish translation, guest sharing improvements and much more. In detail: New MeshAgent User Consent Dialog . The all new MeshAgents have many improvements but on Windows, the agent will now display a much-improved user consent dialog box that includes the account image and an option to auto-accept user consent from this remote administrator for 5 minutes. This new dialog is almost identical to the one in MeshCentral Assistant and looks a lot more professional. MeshAgent WebRTC fixes . The new MeshAgent on all platforms have fixes for the built-in We...

I want to wish a happy new year to everyone. This least year has been wonderful for MeshCentral and its growing community. In 2021, MeshCentral got over 370k downloads on NPM and more than that on DockerHub. On NPM alone, MeshCentral has over 1.4 million downloads total . The YouTube channel got started this year and the 50th video was just posted, and the channel has over 33k views . Last week, the 2021 year in review video was posed, looking back at the statistics, contributions, and major new features of 2021. Looking at the blog over the last 12 months, there are so many new features and improvements to MeshCentral, it’s crazy. Of course, we can’t stop progress and more improvements have been made. The last few weeks have seen the addition of Web power Switch support, allowing users to turn on and off power outlets using MeshCentral, monitor the outlets and grant rights to individual outlet control to other users. We also updated noVNC, the JavaScript based VNC viewer used by M...

This week, a framework was added in MeshCentral to support for IP-KVM switches. For now, the only supported model is the Raritan Dominion KX III switch . This allows for a new form of out-of-band management of computers. MeshCentral can manage remote devices using the agent, agent-less on the local network (SSH/RDP), agent-less using Intel® AMT and now, using IP-KVM devices. In detail: IP-KVM devices . Many vendors offer IP-KVM devices that connect to a computer’s display output and have connectors for USB to emulate a mouse, keyboard and sometimes storage devices. This allows administrators to remotely control computers even without a operating system agent installed. It’s done by emulating local user input over the network. It’s much like what is available with Intel® AMT, but as a completely different devices connected to the PC you want to remote. MeshCentral now has a framework for supporting IP-KVM devices. When support is enabled, it’s offered as a new device group type. IP-KVM ...

A notable milestone happened last week as MeshCentral crossed 1000 stars on GitHub which is wonderful. In addition, lots of new features where added. For example, MeshCentral now has built-in support for Telnyx SMS provider, support was added for sending email using the sendmail command, improvements were made to MeshCentral Assistant and much more. The last two weeks have been excellent with a lot of community activity. In detail: 1000+ Stars on GitHub . The initial commit of MeshCentral to GitHub was on August 28, 2017. Since them, the community has ramped up and last week, the MeshCentral GitHub repository reached over 1000 stars. This is a wonderful achievement and shows how much interest the project is getting. Thank you to everyone in the community for the participation. Sendmail support . Administrators can configure and use the Linux “sendmail” command to send email messages. With the latest version of MeshCentral, the built-in email support can now also be configured to use t...

This week the big news is the addition of PostgreSQL database support to MeshCentral, making MeshCentral more flexible than ever. More features were added at the request of the community, notably adding streaming support to the recorded session player and pre-defined strings in remote desktop. In detail: PostgreSQL Database Support . MeshCentral already supported four different back-end databases (MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, NeDB) and last week we added another one with the addition of PostgreSQL, a widely used, high-performance, open-source database. MeshCentral supports this new database natively, no adaptation layers needed. More back-end database support means that more administrators will be able to deploy MeshCentral on their existing infrastructure. Stream Session Recordings . Requested by the open-source community, recorded sessions can now be replayed directly from the server using the new streaming player. The new player will connect back to the server using web sockets and stre...

We are having a great week with a lot of community participation, many bug fixes, and lots of new features. This week, the user interface has gotten better for both the desktop and mobile web sites. The most fun new demonstration you can now perform is having a friend remote to a computer and as administrator, cutting them off in real time. Very cool, but I am sure this power can be quite annoying if abused. On the social media front, the MeshCentral YouTube channel is doing great. In detail: YouTube Channel . By chance I happen to see the view counter on the MeshCentral YouTube channel just cross the 22k mark. Thank you to everyone who is interested in MeshCentral and the amazing community around it. New videos continue to premiere every Wednesday with plenty more topics to cover. Next week’s video will be on setting up a SMTP email server with MeshCentral and all the new features enabled when doing this. Session Control . When remote desktop, terminal or file session are active on ...