@JaredBusch You guys are demanding! Good feedback, entire checkbox label is active in v0.2.8-x I just published.

One more quick news. I have been working on MongoDB tuning in the last few days. You should be able to connect 10k+ devices easy on a AWS t3.medium instance (Amazon Linux 2, 30$/mo + traffic) without issues. Just published v0.2.8-r with proper MongoDB indexes and query fixes. Handles 1000's of devices now. Still room for improvement, but the previous version where REALLY bad with connection scaling. v0.2.8-r is a lot better at that. Graph below shows MongoDB wasted time for a server with 5000+ agents.

FYI. Just published @MeshCentral v0.3.5-x with new agent installation invitation link system. You can create a time limited link and send it to users who get agent installation instructions. In agent installation page supports many OS's and tries to detect the browser's OS to be on the right starting tab (Picture below). This had been requested earlier in this thread, feedback on this appreciated.

And yes, I do need to work on improved group management. I am certainly keeping busy.

Hi. Ylian here. I am the guy behind MeshCentral. I am really busy writing code but wanted to say hi. In reading this thread I figured I would answer a few questions. So yes, MeshCentral2 is a complete re-write. The older version was designed about 10 years ago when the web was very different. Only some parts of the old agent code have been kept in the new one, but it's mostly all new. Coding started a bit over a year ago, so progress has been pretty good.

When setting up a MeshCentral server, the first account you create will be administrator on the server. All accounts after that are normal users. If you want to block new accounts, set newAccounts to 0 in the "config.json" file in the default domains section. Take a look at the very end of the User's Guide for an example config.json. If you have not do so already, look at the config.json file and user's guide, there are plenty of customization options.

We currently test on Windows7 and higher. Windows XP is increasingly difficult to support because we use features in the MeshAgent that are not supported in older operating systems (pretty much threading related).

If you have any feature requests, please don't hesitate to add them to the list of issues on MeshCentral Github. Not sure if you guy saw this on the blog, but we just added audio/video chat support.

Any feedback and bug reports are very much appreciated. Obviously I can't always do magic. Just as a fun exclusive fact for this thread: If you press "shift" when you hit the full screen icon in remote desktop, it will use browser full screen.

Ylian

Published v0.2.7-o with support for Yubikey's, USB authentication keys. Probably more fixes to do, but it seems to work.

LOL. I just got back this morning and about to step back on the coding treadmill. Got a lot of bug reports on GitHub I need to got thru in the coming days.

Quick note that MeshCentral v0.3.6-n just got published with remote user consent support for remote desktop, terminal and file access. The remote user prompt will work on Windows, MacOS and many Linux distributions. This is a much improved MeshAgent, so lots of fixes. Enjoy and of course, feedback appreciated.

Just posted a blog on the latest MeshCentral2 improvements. Added FreeBSD support, Puppy Linux support, Account creation invitation Email, Notification control and API Tracing.

FYI. MeshCentral just hit 500k downloads on npm-stat.com in about 2 years of being available.

@scottalanmiller You guys are going to flood me with bug reports! Yes, please file them on GitHub. Very must appreciated. I am going back to code now. Got plenty to go fix.

@scottalanmiller Feedback appreciated, let me know if it works for you. I did post a new blog on this topic today.

Just published MeshCentral v0.4.6-y with User Groups feature fully enabled. Everything should be real-time so, creating a new group, adding users and adding the group to a device group should all show immediate results on all logged in user sessions. Good QA testing and feedback on this feature would be most appreciated.

@Romo That is correct, the red "Agent Tag" is a "meshagent.tag" text file that is in the same folder that the "meshagent.exe". It can contain up to 1k of data sent to the server on each agent start. It's there so if you have some sort of automatic installation of the agent, you can put a serial number of something in that file and it gets sent up to the server. It pre-dates the other blue tagging that is server side only.

All this to say, the two tagging systems are completely separate. I can add you a "atag:<agenttag>" filter if you like? Let me know what you need.

Published MeshCentral v0.4.6-u with more progress made on the user interface. Clicking on a user will now show it's device groups and user group memberships and you can add/remove from that screen. User groups don't do anything yet, still a few more days before I try to enable them.

Published MeshCentral v0.4.6-s, making progress. The user interface in mostly done, you can make user groups by you can't do anything else with the group right now.

@scottalanmiller Someone reported the removing a device caused a server crash, but I just fixed it in v0.4.6-r. Apart from that, I started working on the user interface for managing user groups, it's in the "My Users" / "Groups" sub tab but it does nothing now. I plan to build a lot of the UI and groups management first.

Changing the user access control system is going cause a bunch of trashing in the code, published MeshCentral v0.4.6-q just now with lots of changes in preparation for user groups. If you spot anything wrong, please let me know.

@scottalanmiller Makes sense, I will start working on it. This is not going to be easy as it requires a change to how access control is done and there is more user interface work to be done to manage user groups, etc. This said, as you explained, it's an important feature. I will like to have users test the feature when I have early versions. I will post again with progress.

In the case of MeshCentral v0.4.6-d, it was there for a few hours and I had to pull it because it had a bad issue. Once you put a version online, NPM does not allow you to reuse that version number so, it gets skipped. This said, I probably accidentally double bumped up the version number a few times in the past, causing a skip

In real news, I updated the public server, https://meshcentral.com last night to the very latest version. A lot of people use that server and it's sometimes months behind as I want to keep it stable. MeshCentral.com now requires that the privacy bar show up on the remote system when you do a remote desktop session, this is only hard coded for this specific server. You can still do remote desktop without the privacy bar when setting up your own server.

@scottalanmiller Thanks for the new link. Just bookmarked it.
@black3dynamite Thanks for the distro, I will pass that to Bryan so he can test the agent with it.