As we moved into GSX FY26 I thought it would be fun to try the meshmap as a way to show and easily see nodes as they were coming into Vegas. It went well enough, but the thing we quickly noticed is that all of the messages were shown unencrypted despite the encrypted channel we used. We quickly pivoted to posting the messages in our webex space vs using the embedded text message page which was visibily to anybody.
The meshmap is based on Liam Cottles Mesh Map which he graciously publishes in Github. It has a mysql backend where we can pick out the messages and post them in a certain format.
Requirements
- WebEx Developer Account for Bot Creation
- Webserver, Mysql Database server
- Python
- Some base Linux Knowledge
I ran this in a VM for the week we were out in Vegas. I could probably figure out how to containerize this next year along with env files. This really was a rush job to get something done before heading out