Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect
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Hello All,
6 months ago my Mesh install threw an error (see earlier in this thread) and I forgot to check back in.
Needed to do some support for the folks and remembered the project, etc.
Checked the thread and found that I could copy the data and files folder to a fresh install to prevent data loss.So....
Brand new VM (went windows this time, I'm more comfortable in it then ubuntu, old install was on ubuntu)
Installed a fresh copy
Stopped the service
Restored the files and data folder
Started the service....and able to login, old computers showing, my config appears to still be there, etc. Yay
Not sure if the old PCs are connecting though...Except then the page disconnected a few minutes later and does so every few minutes...
Error logs shows this:C:\Program Files\Open Source\MeshCentral\node_modules\nedb\lib\datastore.js:77 if (err) { throw err; } ^ Error: Cannot create a string longer than 0x3fffffe7 characters at stringSlice (buffer.js:589:43) at Buffer.toString (buffer.js:659:10) at FSReqCallback.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (internal/fs/read_file_context.js:49:23)Also of note it appears that Mesh is the latest version.
Ideas?
EDIT: I grabbed a backup before it crashed, complete uninstall/reinstall, restored the backup, and it appears stable now. More testing to follow....
EDIT2: 24 hours and it's stable. I think my issues are resolved.
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Up to 0.4.1-u
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And now 0.4.1-x
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0.4.2-a. That's three updates so far today.
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And 0.4.2-b before I could even look at it
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@black3dynamite whoa
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Updated
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2 questions...
- How does mesh agents handle being behind an authenticated proxy? Where can I give credentials, etc?
- Where can I find agent logs on Windows? I suspect my issue is due to the authenticated proxy, but want to confirm.
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Does MeshCentral have a way to uninstall the remote agent from within the console like ScreenConnect does?
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@JaredBusch it has "delete device". I don't know if it removes the remote agent. But it makes the remote agent useless at least. I've never tested to see what the remote agent does when that option is selected. But it definitely removes it from MC itself.
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@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@JaredBusch it has "delete device". I don't know if it removes the remote agent. But it makes the remote agent useless at least. I've never tested to see what the remote agent does when that option is selected. But it definitely removes it from MC itself.
Interesting behaviour I just observed when I tested this. I can click on the "Delete device" option and it does momentarily remove it from my MC installation however the remote device immediately returns to the MC My Devices dashboard. It looks like there may be a bug that prevents it from being removed if the remote agent is still running on the remote device.
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If I first remove the remote device agent, then I can successfully delete the server from the MC dashboard.
The test was on a remote server running Windows Server 2012R2.
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@NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@JaredBusch it has "delete device". I don't know if it removes the remote agent. But it makes the remote agent useless at least. I've never tested to see what the remote agent does when that option is selected. But it definitely removes it from MC itself.
Interesting behaviour I just observed when I tested this. I can click on the "Delete device" option and it does momentarily remove it from my MC installation however the remote device immediately returns to the MC My Devices dashboard. It looks like there may be a bug that prevents it from being removed if the remote agent is still running on the remote device.
That's odd. I've done this a bit and not seen that happen. But maybe the agent was no longer running?
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@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@JaredBusch it has "delete device". I don't know if it removes the remote agent. But it makes the remote agent useless at least. I've never tested to see what the remote agent does when that option is selected. But it definitely removes it from MC itself.
Interesting behaviour I just observed when I tested this. I can click on the "Delete device" option and it does momentarily remove it from my MC installation however the remote device immediately returns to the MC My Devices dashboard. It looks like there may be a bug that prevents it from being removed if the remote agent is still running on the remote device.
That's odd. I've done this a bit and not seen that happen. But maybe the agent was no longer running?
Most likely. I can remove an agent and it pops back immediately, as @NashBrydges noted.
I want to remote uninstall the agent.
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No obvious command to remove it in the agent command list...
help
Available commands:
amt, amtacm, amtccm, amtdeactivate, amtpolicy, amtreset, apf, args, av, cpuinfo, dbcompact, dbget, dbkeys,
dbset, eval, getclip, getscript, help, httpget, info, kill, location, lock, log, ls, netinfo, notify,
nwslist, openurl, osinfo, parseuri, plugin, power, print, ps, rawsmbios, scanamt, scanwifi, sendcaps,
setclip, setdebug, smbios, sysinfo, toast, type, users, wakeonlan, wsclose, wsconnect, wssend. -
Is there a way to make Powershell the default shell for Windows instead of Command Prompt?
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@coliver said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Is there a way to make Powershell the default shell for Windows instead of Command Prompt?
For Windows, yes...
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For MeshCentral, no I don't think so. That would be nice, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
For MeshCentral, no I don't think so. That would be nice, though.
Yeah that's what I meant.
