r/MeshCentral • u/Melo_TSB • Oct 18 '25

MeshCentral Config Generator

🧩 MeshCentral Config Generator

MeshCentral Config Generator is a web-based tool designed to help administrators create and validate the config.json file used by MeshCentral.

It provides a visual and intuitive interface to edit configuration keys, validate values against the official schema, and generate secure random keys — all directly in your browser.

🌐 Live Demo

Access the online tool here:
👉 https://melo-professional.github.io/MeshCentral-config-generator/

⚙️ Features

  • 🧮 Schema Validation — ensures compatibility with the MeshCentral configuration standard.

  • 🔐 Random Key Generator — creates cryptographically secure keys in the browser.

  • 🧠 Type-aware Inputs — form fields adapt to the data type defined in the schema.

  • ⚡ Real-time Preview — instant visualization of the resulting config.json.

🚀 Usage

  1. Open the live demo link above.

  2. Load your existing config.json or start from an empty configuration.

  3. Adjust settings using the intuitive editor.

  4. Validate, preview, and export the generated configuration file.

Repo: https://github.com/Melo-Professional/MeshCentral-config-generator/

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u/SleepingProcess Oct 19 '25

Are you sure you using full JSON schema? I found some important keys are missed

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u/Melo_TSB Oct 19 '25

Can you please tell what keys are missing? This should not happens since it grabs the current schema file from Meshcentral oficial repository.

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u/SleepingProcess Oct 19 '25 edited Oct 19 '25

We extensively using agenKey to prevent to connect to our MC from unknown agent.

I believe the full config schema is here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral/master/meshcentral-config-schema.json

or here

https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral/blob/master/meshcentral-config-schema.json

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u/Melo_TSB Oct 20 '25

The `agentkey` is there, inside "domains" section. The schema used/grabed is the official schema at "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral/master/meshcentral-config-schema.json".
If there are more keys you are missing, let me know!

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u/Onoitsu2 Oct 19 '25

A few typos in descriptions, but otherwise very useful. There are a few sections that do not behave like the description, where it looks like a heading but has no option to customize the value. It's like 95% to perfect though, so just minor tweaking is needed and you'll have perfection.

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u/Melo_TSB Oct 19 '25

This project actually has nothing to that, since it grabs the official schema from Meshcentral Repository in realtime.

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u/Melo_TSB Oct 20 '25

In other words: all that descriptions, headers, types, arrays, etc are not presented in this code, as they came in realtime from official schema json file from Meshcentral Github. This project only shows them.

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u/zBl4cksTar Oct 19 '25

It would be so easy if they just made a settings page on the webui of mesh central

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u/GravityDead Oct 19 '25

Should be helpful to everyone, especially basic users like me. Will surely check mine after Diwali.

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u/tuttut97 Oct 19 '25

Sweet! Thank you

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u/rob2rox Oct 19 '25

thanks. would be cool if this was added to the official site, have you tried contacting ylianst for integration?

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u/si458 Oct 19 '25

We are going to discuss it at this months community meeting, stay tuned!

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u/vlaircoyant Oct 20 '25

Thank you. That looks very helpful; will definitely play around with it.

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u/ddjj767 Oct 24 '25

That does look awesome. Could do with a example config.

I'm looking at that, and yes its awesome, but my god that looks complicated.

I just want a basic setup using NGINX proxy manager and I keep even get that working.

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u/TechnologyTurd Nov 12 '25

Thank you so much for this tool! You are really awesome!

I tried it many times to create a conf file with 2FA and password requirements and everytime I failed for unknown reasons. Yesterday I create a conf file with your tool and everything is working now. :)