pfi-tacticalrmm

Tactical RMM (remote monitoring + management) server at the Anaheim colo.

Network

LAN IP: 10.250.50.57
SSH: lkraven@pfi-tacticalrmm

Infrastructure

Hypervisor: pfi-pve (VMID 111)
Type: Linux VM
Site: Anaheim (PFI colo)

Role

TacticalRMM — open-source RMM platform. Monitors and manages endpoints, pushes patches, runs scripts, etc.

MeshCentral (bundled with TacticalRMM) — facts checked 2026-10-02

Runs natively (meshcentral.service, user tactical, /meshcentral), Node 18.20.8, MeshCentral 1.2.0, postgres-backed. Public at https://rmm-mesh.phasefinal.com (nginx terminates TLS, tlsOffload), MPS (Intel AMT CIRA) at rmm-mesh.phasefinal.com:4433. 2FA is NOT forced (force2factor unset).
HYBRID since 2026-10-02 0812 (Prime: "hybrid, make it so"). settings.WANonly set false (backup config.json.bak-20261002-hybrid); the log says "Hybrid (LAN + WAN) mode". All 14 connected agents came back. nh3-pve's AMT is in PFI-AMT as nh3-pve-amt (10.100.250.61, TLS, admin): MeshCentral reached it at once (AMT 16.1.25, activated, power on), so the old-TLS worry did not apply. ⚠ The path still runs through nh3-scale (CT 107 ON nh3-pve): with nh3-pve down, this AMT is unreachable from here. KVM needs an active iGPU output: the NanoKVM serves today; fit the 1080p dummy plug before it moves.
Phone-home (CIRA) plumbing, 2026-10-02 (Prime go): settings.mpsPass set (vaulted pfi-tacticalrmm/meshcentral-mpspass; without it the MPS checked only the 16-char username). FortiGate ana-gw: service MeshCentral-MPS-4433, VIP mps-to-tacticalrmm (38.120.12.46:4433 → 10.250.50.57) and policy 76 (wan1→servers, accept) — 4433 verified open from the internet, 4434 closed as a control. The AMT side is scripts/amt-cira-setup.py. nh3-pve's AMT phones home since 0859 after moving it from static IP to DHCP (Intel: CIRA does not work on a static IP; the FortiGate sniffer had shown zero attempts before). The CIRA entries are nh3-pve-amt (old LAN entry removed) and nh3-pve-2-amt (MS-03, AMT 21.0.6, from 2026-10-02 1449; configured on DHCP from the start, so it phoned home the moment its environment detection was set). Two things it needed: the AMT credentials set on the device (changedevice intelamt user/pass) and intelamt.tls = 1. Then a MeshCentral restart re-ran its AMT manager, which logged in at once (16.1.25, power on). ⚠ MeshCentral 1.2.0 amtmanager.js picks TLS-vs-not over CIRA with boundPorts.indexOf('16992') used as a boolean (−1 is truthy), so a TLS-only AMT can be tried without TLS. Set tls explicitly as above.
Third CIRA device: esh-pve-2-amt (MS-03 at ESH, AMT 21.0.6, tunnel from ESH's public IP 128.177.138.182), 2026-10-02 2218. Same recipe. Instead of restarting MeshCentral after setting credentials, only that device's tunnel was dropped (sudo ss -K -tn "dst [::ffff:<public-ip>]:664"). AMT reconnected within seconds, and the AMT manager logged in with the new credentials. The other tunnels and the agents were untouched.
⚠ A device's FIRST CIRA connection can crash MeshCentral 1.2.0 (it did once, 2026-10-02 22:18:07; the launcher restarted it at 22:18:14 and all 14 agents came back). Read at source: in mpsserver.js, password-auth path for a device not yet in the DB, socket.tag.meshid is set only inside the reverse-DNS callback, while addCiraConnection() runs at once and its 300 ms timer reads meshid. SetConnectivityState → NotifyUserOfDeviceStateChange then calls meshid.split on undefined, which is uncaught, so the whole server restarts. The likely trigger is a slow PTR lookup on the source IP: ESH's resolves at zayo.com, while NH3's has none and its two first connects did not crash. That is inferred, not measured. Reconnects of an existing device take the other branch and are safe. Onboard new AMTs at a quiet hour; expect one ~7 s MeshCentral restart.
Before 2026-10-02: "WANonly": true (TacticalRMM's install default). In that mode MeshCentral SILENTLY DROPS "Add Intel AMT computer": meshuser.js line 2682, if (args.wanonly == true) return;. No error, no event. LAN-mode AMT needs WANonly false (hybrid) + a service restart; CIRA works in WAN mode. TacticalRMM's update.sh only touches the compression keys of config.json, so a WANonly change survives updates.
Device groups: TC2-MacMini (agent group), PFI-AMT (mtype 1, Intel AMT only; created by Prime 2026-10-02, empty). 24 devices visible to Prime's account, 7 of them report Intel AMT.
Site-admin account lkraven (2026-10-02, Prime): full site admin (users, server files), full rights on PFI-AMT and TC2-MacMini; password vaulted pfi-tacticalrmm/meshcentral-lkraven-password. Created with node node_modules/meshcentral --createaccount lkraven --hashpass <salt,hash> + --adminaccount lkraven while the service was stopped (the CLI writes the DB directly). TacticalRMM's mesh sync only manages name___N accounts, so it leaves this one alone. TRMM's own MeshCentral superuser is fosxggiw. ⚠ Not in 2FA yet.
Uploads ("My Files") need nginx's limit raised: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/meshcentral.conf had no client_max_body_size, so nginx's 1 MB default 413'd every real upload. Since 2026-10-02: client_max_body_size 4G + proxy_request_buffering off (backup .bak-20261002-upload). Site admins have no MeshCentral quota. ⚠ Re-check after a TacticalRMM update or reinstall rewrites the nginx sites.
CLI access: meshctrl.js on this host with Prime's login token, vaulted pfi-tacticalrmm/meshcentral-login-token (one line: username: ~t:… password: …). Example: sudo -n -u tactical node /meshcentral/node_modules/meshcentral/meshctrl.js listdevicegroups --url wss://rmm-mesh.phasefinal.com --loginuser <u> --loginpass <p>. Feed the credentials over stdin; never put them in a file or a log.

Backup coverage

VM-image: ✅ vzdump on pfi-pve (daily)
File-level restic: ❌ not yet configured

TacticalRMM state (Postgres DB with inventory + automation history, MeshCentral config, agent registrations) is critical if used in production. Worth setting up app-consistent DB dumps + file-level restic if it's the primary management plane.

Refresh state

scripts/refresh-server-info.sh pfi-tacticalrmm

Discovered via

scripts/discover-fortigate.sh 10.250.250.1 on 2026-04-21 — FortiGate DHCP lease (MAC ba:fa:65:f6:46:25).

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