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MeshCentral Integration
Overview
Tactical RMM integrates with MeshCentral for the following 3 functions:
- Take Control
- Real time shell
- Real time file browser
At some point in the future, these functions will be directly built into the Tactical Agent, removing the need for MeshCentral.
It should be noted that Tactical RMM and MeshCentral are 2 completely separate products and can run independently of each other.
They do not even have to run on the same box, however when you install Tactical RMM it simply installs meshcentral for you with some preconfigured settings to allow integration.
It is highly recommended to use the MeshCentral instance that Tactical installs, since it allows the developers more control over it and to ensure things don't break.
How does it work
MeshCentral has an embedding feature that allows integration into existing products.
See Section 14 - Embedding MeshCentral in the MeshCentral User Guide for a detailed explanation of how this works.
The Tactical RMM Agent keeps track of your Mesh Agents, and periodically interacts with them to synchronize the mesh agent's unique ID with the tactical rmm database.
When you do a take control / terminal / file browser on an agent using the Tactical UI, behind the scenes, Tactical generates a login token for meshcentral's website and then "wraps" MeshCentral's UI in an iframe for that specific agent only, using it's unique ID to know what agent to render in the iframe.