Certified Network Associate

(MTCNA)

Module 9
Misc

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 RouterOS Tools
• RouterOS provides
various utilities that help
to administrate and
monitor the router more
efficiently

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 E-mail
• Allows to send e-mails
from the router
• For example to send
router backup
Tools → Email
/export file=export
/tool e-mail send to=you@gmail.com\
subject="$[/system identity get name] export"\
body="$[/system clock get date]\
configuration file" file=export.rsc
A script to make an export file and send it via e-mail

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 E-mail
• Configure your SMTP server settingson
the router
• Export the configuration of your router
• Send it to your e-mail from the RouterOS

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 Netwatch
• Monitors state of hosts
on the network
• Sends ICMPecho
request (ping)
• Can execute a script
when a host becomes
unreachable or
reachable
Tools → Netwatch
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 Ping
• Used to test the reachability
of a host on an IP network
• To measure the round trip
time for messages between
source and destination
hosts
• Sends ICMP echo request
packets Tools → Ping

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 Ping
• Ping your laptop’sIP address from the
router
• Click ‘New Window’ and ping
www.mikrotik.com from the router
• Observe the round trip time difference

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 Traceroute
• Network diagnostic
tool for displaying
route (path) of
packets across an
IP network
• Can use icmp or
udp protocol

Tools → Traceroute

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 Traceroute
• Choose a web site in your country and do
a traceroute to it
• Click ‘New Window’ and do a traceroute
to www.mikrotik.com
• Observe the difference between the routes

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 Profile
• Shows CPU usage for each
RouterOS running process
in real time
• idle - unused CPU
resources
Tools → Profile
• For more info see Profile
wiki page

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Interface Traffic Monitor
• Real time traffic status
• Available for each
interface in traffic tab
• Can also be accessed
from both WebFig and
command line interface

Interfaces → wlan1 → Traffic

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 Torch
• Real-time monitoring tool
• Can be used to monitor the traffic flow
through the interface
• Can monitor traffic classified by IP protocol
name, source/destination address (IPv4/
IPv6), port number

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 Torch

Tools → Torch
• Traffic flow from the laptop to the
mikrotik.com web server HTTPS port
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 Graphs
• RouterOS can generate graphs showing
how much traffic has passed through an
interface or a queue
• Can show CPU, memory and disk usage
• For each metric there are 4 graphs - daily,
weekly, monthly and yearly

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 Graphs

Set specific
interface to
monitor or leave
all, set IP address/
subnet which will
be able to access
the graphs

Tools → Graphing

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 Graphs

• Available on the router: http://router_ip/

graphs

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Graphs

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 Graphs
• Enable interface, queue and resource
graphs on your router
• Observe the graphs
• Download a large file from the Internet
• Observe the graphs

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 SN MP
• Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP)
• Used for monitoring and managingdevices
• RouterOS supports SNMP v1, v2 and v3
• SNMP write support is available only for
some settings

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SN MP

Tools → SNMP

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 The Dude
• Application by MikroTik which can
dramatically improve the way you manage
your network environment
• Automatic discovery and layout map of
devices
• Monitoring of services and alerting
• Free of charge
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 The Dude
• Supports SNMP,ICMP, DNS and TCP
monitoring
• Server part runs on RouterOS (CCR, CHR
or x86)
• Client on Windows (works on Linux and
OS X using Wine)
• For more info see The Dude wiki page
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The Dude

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 The Dude
• Download the Dude client for Windows
from mikrotik.com/download page
• Install and connect to MikroTik Dude
demo server: dude.mt.lv
• Observe the Dude

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The Dude

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 Contacting Support
• In order for MikroTik support to be able to
help better, few steps should be taken
beforehand
• Create support output file (supout.rif)

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 Contacting Support
• autosupout.rif can be created automatically
in case of hardware malfunction
• Managed by watchdog process
• Before sending to MikroTik, support output
file contents can be viewed in your
mikrotik.com account
• For more info see Support Output File and
Watchdog wiki pages
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 System Logs
• By default RouterOS already
logs information about the
router
• Stored in memory
• Can be stored on disk
• Or sent to a remote syslog System → Logging

server

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 System Logs
• To enable detailed
logs (debug), create
a new rule
• Add debug topic
System → Logging → New Log Rule

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 Contacting Support
• Before contacting support@mikrotik.com
check these resources
• wiki.mikrotik.com - RouterOS
documentation and examples
• forum.mikrotik.com - communicate with
other RouterOS users
• mum.mikrotik.com - MikroTik User Meeting
page - presentations videos
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 Contacting Support
• It is suggested to add meaningful comments
to your rules, items
• Describe as detailed as possible so that
MikroTik support team can help you better
• Include your network diagram
• For more info see support page

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