rem0te: public API and Tactical RMM
For the administrator who connects rem0te to other tools: business-scoped API keys and their scopes, the public API's calls and its uneven response shapes, error codes (including why a missing scope is a 401), minting enrolment commands for an RMM or Intune rollout, sensible polling, and the Tactical RMM integration: URL Actions without keys, how agents are matched to computers, the Collector Task for the RustDesk ID, and scripts that use a key from TRMM's keystore.
- Level
- Advanced
- Length
- About 50 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- rem0te · open source
Skills you'll practise
- Create an API key with the least scopes and a lifetime that fit an integration
- Read the public API's responses and errors correctly, including the computers pagination and nested RustDesk ID
- Mint an enrolment command through the API and explain what the machine running it can't change
- Set up Tactical RMM URL Actions and a Collector Task, keeping credentials out of URLs
- Explain how rem0te matches a TRMM agent and why it asks instead of guessing
Course outline
- 1.rem0te: public API and Tactical RMMVideo · 2 min
- 2.API keys and scopesLesson · 16 min
- 3.Calls, response shapes and errorsLesson · 17 min
- 4.Tactical RMMLesson · 17 min
- 5.rem0te: public API and Tactical RMM: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
- 6.rem0te: rolling out to a new customer through Tactical RMMScenario
- 7.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- rem0te docs: Public API (keys, scopes, endpoints, response shapes, errors)
- rem0te docs: API reference (every route and its required capability)
- rem0te docs: Tactical RMM (URL Actions, matching, Collector Task, scripts)
- rem0te docs: Access control (three levels, capabilities, business boundary, Quick Connect, migration)
- rem0te CHANGELOG (0.7.0 to 0.18.18: rotation, access model, device secret, inventory, reinstall agent, Tactical RMM)
- rem0te README (levels, managed devices vs Quick Connect, enrolling, limitations)
- rem0te docs: Security audit (internal review by the project, v0.13.0)
- MSP Zero: rem0te tool page
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