It’s a new year and lots is going on with Meshcentral. We have been hard at work and have lots to announce. First, I am very happy that Rick Edgecombe is back from sabbatical this week, the core Mesh team (Rick, Bryan, Kevin and myself) are all back and working. This week’s announcements are very geeky, targeted at advanced Mesh users. It especially impacts Intel AMT, Linux and IoT usages:
- Mesh Agent v1.92 with Mesh Command. The latest Mesh Agent executable has two personalities, it’s both the “mesh agent” and “mesh command” depending on how it’s invoked. On Linux you can create a symbolic link from “meshcmd” to the mesh agent binary, then when you type “meshcmd” to have access to a command line tool that offers may mesh operations. For example you can remotely wake or sleep computers, enumerate devices and more. By having Mesh Command built into the agent, it will continue to be automatically updated and is now available on most platforms where Mesh is supported. This new tool opens up many new possibilities moving forward.
- MeshCmd now includes Intel® ME information tool. If you type “MeshCmd MEINFO” or “MeshCmd MEHASHES” you can get activation information and provisioning state about Intel AMT. In effect, we built a version of the “meinfo” windows tool into the Mesh Agent and are porting it to all platforms.
- MeshCmd has standalone Intel® AMT LMS. You can also type “MeshCmd MELMS” and launch standalone LMS. The agent’s built-in LMS is run automatically when the Mesh Agent launches, but we are offering administrators the options to launch LMS standalone. This is especially useful on Linux, XEN and other platforms where LMS is not generally available. Download the mesh agent, rename it to “meshcmd” and launch LMS. That simple.
- Mesh Agent API package. We just released an all new Mesh Agent API and samples package on info.meshcentral.com. This pack has C/C#/Java samples for applications that want to interact directly with the mesh agent to perform application data storage and mesh messaging. This has been required a lot in the past and is especially useful for IoT usages.
- Update on latest OpenSSL. A few days back, 8 more OpenSSL vulnerabilities have been found with medium severity level, OpenSSL 1.0.1l was released. Mesh Agent 1.92 includes all the latest OpenSSL updates and fixes.
- Mesh Server reduced idle chatter. The latest Mesh Server now has reduced idle chatter to all Mesh Agents. This is especially important to devices on cellphone links. We implemented a 16x or more reduction in traffic when the devices are doing nothing. In addition, we implemented a new traffic audit feature in the mesh server to help administrators and developers see exactly what traffic is being send to and from agents. This will help reduce traffic even more in the future.
These are just some of the changes, for a live blow-by-blow of what is going on, follow Meshcentral on Twitter.
Questions and feedback appreciated,
Ylian Saint-Hilaire
info.meshcentral.com
Rick Edgecombe is back from sabbatical and we offered him his old desk as a gift.
Looks like he is ready to go on the latest feature!
The new Mesh Agent on Windows and Linux has two personalities, depending on how you launch it,
it behaves like the Mesh Agent, or MeshCmd… the new Mesh command line tool.
MeshCmd allows the administrator to do all sorts of interesting actions from the command line: Get Agent information, list managed meshes and nodes with power state, get Intel AMT state and start a Micro version of Intel® AMT LMS. More features will be added as new agents are released…
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