Looking to learn/research MeshCentral
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
@notverypunny said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
@stuartjordan said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
Tatical RMM integrates with meshcentral as well apparently. Although I've only tried the demo but looks promising. https://github.com/wh1te909/tacticalrmm
Doesn't just integrate, mesh now appears to be an integral part. Stood up a tactical server and it automatically installed and configured a mesh instance. Have to say that I'm pretty impressed with things so far.
It does that, but if you do that you get less flexibility. We run our own MC instance and our own Tactical instance and connect the two.
Hey Scott, can you elaborate on the increased flexibility? I have to admit that I'm not familiar enough with either product to see what the advantages of different deployment models could be.
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@notverypunny
I'm curious on this as well. We have used MC successfully and now want to add TacticalRMM ... what is the advantages of having them seperate versus being on the same box? Don't like the idea of redoing all the existing MC clients, but if it makes things better, fine. -
@krzykat said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
@notverypunny
I'm curious on this as well. We have used MC successfully and now want to add TacticalRMM ... what is the advantages of having them seperate versus being on the same box? Don't like the idea of redoing all the existing MC clients, but if it makes things better, fine.For your scenario it you really shouldn't have to re-do a deployment, IIRC you're in the same situation as @scottalanmiller (Mesh deployed and then adding TacticalRMM after). I got the go-ahead to give Tactical a try in our enterprise environment as a compliment or possible replacement to parts of our existing tool-stack / workflow so I'm not quite in the same situation from the jumping off point. I've got a mix of machines deployed and really like what I'm seeing so far.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
@notverypunny said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
@stuartjordan said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
Tatical RMM integrates with meshcentral as well apparently. Although I've only tried the demo but looks promising. https://github.com/wh1te909/tacticalrmm
Doesn't just integrate, mesh now appears to be an integral part. Stood up a tactical server and it automatically installed and configured a mesh instance. Have to say that I'm pretty impressed with things so far.
It does that, but if you do that you get less flexibility. We run our own MC instance and our own Tactical instance and connect the two.
What flexibility?
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Sorry if this is an new topic...
If you have MeshCentral and Tactical RMM, what do you use for a ticketing system?
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@wls-itguy said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
Sorry if this is an new topic...
If you have MeshCentral and Tactical RMM, what do you use for a ticketing system?
Anything that you want. WE are using FreshDesk, but there is no tie between the ticket system and the remote management tooling.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
@notverypunny said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
@stuartjordan said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
Tatical RMM integrates with meshcentral as well apparently. Although I've only tried the demo but looks promising. https://github.com/wh1te909/tacticalrmm
Doesn't just integrate, mesh now appears to be an integral part. Stood up a tactical server and it automatically installed and configured a mesh instance. Have to say that I'm pretty impressed with things so far.
It does that, but if you do that you get less flexibility. We run our own MC instance and our own Tactical instance and connect the two.
What flexibility?
Ability to have a large deployment with security built in already and not lose that. And, most importantly, you aren't limited to Tactical RMM security. We have end users on MC, too, hundreds of them, so Tactical's "security via Tactical" approach is problematic.
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@krzykat said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
@notverypunny
I'm curious on this as well. We have used MC successfully and now want to add TacticalRMM ... what is the advantages of having them seperate versus being on the same box? Don't like the idea of redoing all the existing MC clients, but if it makes things better, fine.I'd keep them separate. It's very simple and works really well. With separate you also have more performance as the two each get their own system.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
Ability to have a large deployment with security built in already and not lose that.
Do you know if it is FIPS 140-2 certified?
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@jasgot said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to learn/research MeshCentral:
Ability to have a large deployment with security built in already and not lose that.
Do you know if it is FIPS 140-2 certified?
Almost certainly not. That is a "pay the government for favours" cert that only big vendors can do. No small project can think about doing stuff like that because there's no way to make money from having done it and it doesn't just cost the developers an arm and a leg, but it directly takes away funding and development time from their actual users. So the developers don't wait to lose the money, and the real world customers don't want them focusing on something that's only for political reasons.
While I don't know 100% that either is certified, I'm certain that they are not and have no interest. It just doesn't make sense financially or ideologically.
