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MeshCentral

mesh-thumb.png MeshCentral is a powerful and versatile Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software tool designed to facilitate full remote control and management of devices over the internet. It's an open-source project, making it a popular choice for IT professionals, system administrators, and hobbyists alike who need a reliable and cost-effective solution for managing devices remotely.

For further information, visit the WG-Easy project.

Consider donating to this amazing open-source project at Github.

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Video Walkthrough

Follow this simple installation instruction video:

Requirements

  • Fresh virtual machine
  • Debian 12
  • A minimum of 2GB RAM
  • x86 or Arm64

Installation

Docker Engine

First, we will need to install docker engine on our brand new server.

Quick Installation script:

curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | CHANNEL=stable sh
# After the installation process is finished, you may need to enable the service and make sure it is started (e.g. CentOS 7)
systemctl enable --now docker

Visit official installation guide.

Never install docker from other sources or custom repositiories.

NPM & MeshCentral

NGINX Proxy Manager was developed as a Docker container to provide a simple, graphical user interface (GUI) for managing your NGINX environment. It allows you to easily route incoming HTTP and HTTPS traffic to various internal servers, manage SSL certificates, and redirect traffic from one URL to another, all without having to dive into complex configuration files.

Check NPM GitHub page.

It is highly recommended, that you protect port 81. You can whitelist your home static IP or deploy your own VPN server. Visit guide for complete tutorial.

Docker Compose File

version: '3'
services:
    meshcentral:
        restart: always
        container_name: meshcentral
        image: typhonragewind/meshcentral:latest
        ports:
            - 8086:443  #MeshCentral will moan and try everything not to use port 80, but you can also use it if you so desire, just change the config.json according to your needs
        environment:
            - HOSTNAME=mesh.example.com   #your hostname
            - REVERSE_PROXY=127.0.0.1  #set to your reverse proxy IP if you want to put meshcentral behind a reverse proxy
            - REVERSE_PROXY_TLS_PORT=443
            - IFRAME=false    #set to true if you wish to enable iframe support
            - ALLOW_NEW_ACCOUNTS=false    #set to false if you want disable self-service creation of new accounts besides the first (admin)
            - WEBRTC=false  #set to true to enable WebRTC - per documentation it is not officially released with meshcentral, but is solid enough to work with. Use with caution
            - TZ=Europe/Bratislava #Change to your timezone
        volumes:
            - /home/user/docker/meshcentral/data:/opt/meshcentral/meshcentral-data    #config.json and other important files live here. A must for data persistence
            - /home/user/docker/meshcentral/user_files:/opt/meshcentral/meshcentral-files    #where file uploads for users live
        labels:
            - "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"
    npm:
      image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest'
      restart: unless-stopped
      ports:
      # These ports are in format <host-port>:<container-port>
        - '80:80' # Public HTTP Port
        - '443:443' # Public HTTPS Port
        - '81:81' # Admin Web Port
      # Add any other Stream port you want to expose
      # - '21:21' # FTP
      labels:
        - "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"

    # Uncomment the next line if you uncomment anything in the section
      environment:
      # Uncomment this if you want to change the location of
      # the SQLite DB file within the container
      # DB_SQLITE_FILE: "/data/database.sqlite"

      # Uncomment this if IPv6 is not enabled on your host
        DISABLE_IPV6: 'true'
        PUID: 1000
        PGID: 1000
      volumes:
        - /home/user/docker/npm/data:/data
        - /home/user/docker/npm/ssl:/etc/letsencrypt

Make sure to change your system paths, timezone. More details in video.

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