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# Meshbook
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# Meshbook
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A way to programmatically manage MeshCentral-managed machines, a bit like Ansible does.
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A way to programmatically manage MeshCentral-managed machines, a bit like Ansible does.<br>
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What problem does it solve? Well, what I wanted to be able to do is to automate system updates through [MeshCentral](https://github.com/ylianst/meshcentral).<br>
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And many people will be comfortable with YAML configurations! It's almost like JSON, but different!<br>
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# Quick-start:
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The quickest way to start is to grab a template from the templates folder in this repository.<br>
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Make sure to correctly pass the MeshCentral websocket API as `wss://<MeshCentral-Host>/control.ashx`.<br>
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And make sure to fill in the credentails of an account which has remote commands permissions.<br>
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Then make a yaml with a target and some commands! See below examples as a guideline. And do not forget to look at the bottom's notice.
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# Example:
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# Example:
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For the example, I used the following yaml file:
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```yaml
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name: Ping a single Point
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company: Temp-Agents
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tasks:
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- name: Ping Cloudflare
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command: "ping 1.1.1.1 -c 4"
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```
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The above group: `Temp-Agents` has four devices, of which one is offline.<br>
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You can expand the command chain as follows:<br>
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```yaml
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name: Ping Multiple Points
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company: Temp-Agents
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tasks:
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- name: Ping Cloudflare
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command: "ping 1.1.1.1 -c 4"
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- name: Ping Google
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command: "ping 8.8.8.8 -c 4"
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```
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The following response it received when executing the first yaml of the above files.
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```shell
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```shell
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python3 meshbook.py --playbook examples/ping.yaml --silent
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python3 meshbook.py --playbook examples/ping.yaml --silent
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Please ignore the module output in the example, I will remove that in a later version.
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# P.S.:
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# Important Notice:
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If you want to use this, make sure to use NON-BLOCKING commands. MeshCentral does not work if you send it commands that wait.
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If you want to use this, make sure to use `NON-BLOCKING` commands. MeshCentral does not work if you send it commands that wait.<br>
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A couple examples of `BLOCKING COMMANDS` which will never get back to the main MeshCentral server:
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```shell
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apt upgrade # without -y.
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sleep infinity
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ping 1.1.1.1 # without a -c flag (because it pings forever).
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```
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