Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect

syko24

Just curious are you guys leaving the web portal (login screen) open to all IPs or are you restricting to your office addresses? I like being able to login to our ScreenConnect from everywhere. I am not sure if MeshCentral has a lockout mechanism yet. Granted there is the 2FA now.

CCWTech

Is this going to be open source once out of beta?

Also, is there a way to mass deploy it? I understand there isn't an MSI for a group policy deployment.

scottalanmiller

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Is this going to be open source once out of beta?

Already open. Apache 2.0 license.

scottalanmiller

@CCWTech here is the code...

https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral

CCWTech

@scottalanmiller How about deployment?

scottalanmiller

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller How about deployment?

What aspect?

CCWTech

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller How about deployment?

What aspect?

The agent - approx 1,500 PC's.

JaredBusch

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller How about deployment?

What aspect?

The agent - approx 1,500 PC's.

You can silent install the agent via whatever means you want to push the exe out with.

MeshAgent.exe -fullinstall

CCWTech

@JaredBusch said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller How about deployment?

What aspect?

The agent - approx 1,500 PC's.

You can silent install the agent via whatever means you want to push the exe out with.
MeshAgent.exe -fullinstall

What do you like to push it out with?

scottalanmiller

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller How about deployment?

What aspect?

The agent - approx 1,500 PC's.

Oh, I see.

scottalanmiller

And now 0.2.9-i

Doing the updates now.

black3dynamite

Has this happen to any of you ?
If this happens again, I'll be submitting a ticket.

-------- 2/27/2019, 8:57:46 AM ---- 0.2.9-h --------


/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongo_client.js:421
          throw err
          ^
MongoError: failed to connect to server [127.0.0.1:27017] on first connect [MongoError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017]
    at Pool. (/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/topologies/server.js:336:35)
    at Pool.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at Connection. (/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:280:12)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:273:13)
    at Connection.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at Socket. (/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connection.js:189:49)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:273:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:82:8)
    at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:50:3)
Emitted 'error' event at:
    at /opt/meshcentral/node_modules/mongojs/lib/database.js:31:16
    at connectCallback (/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongo_client.js:527:5)
    at /opt/meshcentral/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongo_client.js:418:11
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite No, have not seen that.

But the error appears to be from MongoDB not responding, not from MeshCentral.

scottalanmiller

I've seen the error with NodeBB when MongoDB's Atlas service went down.

scottalanmiller

Just went to 0.2.9-k

scottalanmiller

Running MC on 2019 end points now and it is noticeably way faster there than on 2012 R2, for example.

scottalanmiller

0.2.9-o

We couldn't update earlier today. Our MC install was getting quite a lot of use. Thanks to MC we were able to do a degree of work that we could never have done with SC due to its connection limits and performance overhead. MC worked like a champ.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

0.2.9-o

We couldn't update earlier today. Our MC install was getting quite a lot of use. Thanks to MC we were able to do a degree of work that we could never have done with SC due to its connection limits and performance overhead. MC worked like a champ.

The licensing thing I could see - but really - MC is that much better on performance overhead?

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

0.2.9-o

We couldn't update earlier today. Our MC install was getting quite a lot of use. Thanks to MC we were able to do a degree of work that we could never have done with SC due to its connection limits and performance overhead. MC worked like a champ.

The licensing thing I could see - but really - MC is that much better on performance overhead?

Yeah, needs a fraction of the resources and even with heavier use allows us to connect in under a quarter of the time. It makes us dramatically more responsive as the support team.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@Dashrender said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

0.2.9-o

We couldn't update earlier today. Our MC install was getting quite a lot of use. Thanks to MC we were able to do a degree of work that we could never have done with SC due to its connection limits and performance overhead. MC worked like a champ.

The licensing thing I could see - but really - MC is that much better on performance overhead?

Yeah, needs a fraction of the resources and even with heavier use allows us to connect in under a quarter of the time. It makes us dramatically more responsive as the support team.

It is working pretty good at this point for me, but it is missing a couple things I require for full use.

I have one client that requires consent before letting the connection run.

I have other clients that are only comfortable with the always on connection because they are alerted that we are connected by the task icon and or the notice banner at the top, and or the black background.