The posts and the projects related to Mikrotik Dude. Mikrotik Dude is the Network Monitoring System or NMS. Moreover, Dude isn’t closed program, rather the framework for the NMS tasks. You can add your own netowrk probes and sensors, building powerful NMS solution on your own.
It can be used to monitor and manage not only the RouterOS based devices, but also the Windows or Linux servers. Take the control over your network with this flexible tool.
One of the very exciting features in Dude 6.xx is the device hierarchy tree. This nifty feature will significantly decrease the number of alarms and notifications which Dude will send to you. Even better, you can easily spot on the map where the problem lies.
Let’s see how we can manage this hierarchy. Continue reading
In my previous post, I discussed about the installation process of Dude for Windows. I mentioned that my goal was to build a Dude agent and to implement the client-server architecture.
Let’s finish this scenario! Continue reading
I have a few servers and other network devices in the branch office. To avoid the packet loss during the SNMP queries, I decided to use Dude in the agent role on this remote location.
When it comes to the message logging from different network devices, the most common method is to utilise a Syslog server. This software is designed to acquire different system messages and save them into the file on the local disk.
We recently changed the old server and I faced the problem to install old Syslog server on the new Windows platform. I checked the different solutions and eventually I remember that MikroTik Dude can act as a Syslog server. That was my easy solution for this challenge. Continue reading
Mikrotik Routerboard RB750Gr3 or hEX is a small yet powerful device. It hides a few surprises in that small plastic case. One of them is a capability to run the Dude server.
Let’s make it! Continue reading
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