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1. iil p active Maw23135510 141 2649 105 832 Probes r 10 00113 1000 113 SomeDevice fp suwe May 23 135509 141 2650 105632 Devicet 10 0 0114 10 0 0 114 Some Device G ene May 22 121058 160 11 01 epson Networks t 10 0 0 114 10 0 0 114 Some Device P active Map 22 1210 58 160 11 01 epson amp Services r 1000128 106 0128 Some Dewce gt active May 22 121057 160 11 02 epon 10 00129 1000129 DNS Serv Admins 1000133 100 0133 DNS Server s ia I2 181088 160 1104 aun Notifications f rals Harre eee gt active May 22 19 1055 160 11 04 epson Links azi i Pr active May 22 10 1856 1690309 10 0 0129 E Address Lists ANA Nin Some Dei ed ae Mat IIO PC 160 0294 Charts Se ida a A a N s eee ge U a The interface has two panes The first left pane is used to select a configuration section and the second right to display the configuration window At the top of the selection pane there are five buttons B Undo reverse the previous configuration action a Redo repeat an undone configuration change Settings configure global settings of the server which will be described later on Export export all the server configuration to an XML file Import import the server configuration from an XML file There is a network mini map at the bottom of the left pane displaying a scaled down view on the active map which can ease navigation on large network maps There may be many windows on the window pane Each of them may be split i2. wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_Manual There are three log threads Debug shows all changes happening in the system Action lists manual operations performed by an administrator for example device add remove events Event stores network events for example information about failing services Note this is different from the Log files menu which shows actual files on disk whereas this menu shows logging targets Probes List of all available probe types used to check if a particular service is running on a device The following probe types are available ICMP regular ping Configurable parameters are packet size TTL time to live retry count and timeout Random the check is considered to be successful with the given probability TCP a test which opens a regular TCP connection to a given port You may choose whether it is enough to check if a remote host in answering on that port or you want to perform a conversation with it specifying what to send and what to expect defined in regular expression form from it DNS probe the given UDP port usually 53 with a valid DNS request for the given domain name You may also choose to check whether the response contains at least one of the specified IP addresses SNMP check the specified OID for a value Configurable parameters are SNMP port 161 by default OID number OID type comparison operation depends on the OID type selected numeric operators for
3. be centered on that Le Static generic grouper of network hosts You can link any object to this without any effect except that you will show that the objects are somehow connected N Link connection between two objects on a map that represents OSI layer 1 physical link It can display traffic statistics if set to use SNMP protocol in this case you will need to specify the device and the particular network interface to monitor Depending on utilization it may change its color signaling that the channel is almost full There are various link types styles which represent different kinds of links VPN wireless etc N Dependency monitoring dependency If a device depends on another it is not monitored until that it depends on is up On the map you can select whether you want to see link diagram all the network connections or dependency diagram When navigating through a map if you leave the mouse cursor over a network object for about two seconds a tooltip will appear showing some information on that object Network devices will also have reachability time graphs for each service like ping time Submaps will have the list of elements and a map preview shown The map may be automatically aligned by pressing the Layout button You can also align some selected objects in line with the the automatic alignment tools 4 of 12 Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_Manual Line tool
4. be described later in this document Chart Appearance background grid text colors text style line colors Discover Defaults used when no specific settings are made for a scan Black list address list to exclude from scanning Name Preference which device name should be used The discovery procedure may define the device name by its IP address DNS name or the string returned as the device name by SNMP protocol In this field you set which one of thee names should be used For example if the field is set to DNS to SNMP to IP then DNS name will 5 of 12 Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_Manual be used when available if it is not then SNMP derived name will be used but if neither of them are detected then IP address will be used as the device name Mode scan method May be either fast when devices are discovered simply by pinging sequentially all IP addresses from the network provided or reliable when not only pings are performed but also all other services defined Recursive hops whether to scan recursively all the networks found connected to the initially discovered devices I e in case there were some network devices detected which are connected to more than one network whether to continue scanning also the network these devices are connected to This parameter is set to the maximal hop network device number which to scan the connected networks from Advanced Iden
5. integers string operators for strings as the value to compare to Devices List of all the devices drawn on any of the network maps type of the devices displayed and map they belong to may be chosen You can not add devices here to create a new device you should place it on a map just see all of them in a single list remove them and change their settings by double clicking on a device General tab Name device name determined according to the discovery settings or any text string administratively set default is IP address Addresses DNS names lookup lookup interval device address information A set of IP address and DNS names may be assigned to a device Either primary IP address lookup name to address or primary DNS name address to name is resolved regularly with the given interval from the other Type device type Parents device dependency The device is only polled if at least one of the parents is up SNMP community and port SNMP access information for this device Username password user credentials that can be passed to some device tools from the built in tools only winbox supports it for now Secure Winbox Port use secure winbox connection to this device RouterOS whether this device is RouterOS Polling tab probe interval probe timeout probe down count notification service polling properties that override the server default ones and the map default ones Define how often interval
6. place the selected items in one line First press the left mouse button at the beginning of the line release the mouse button at the end of the line amp Arc tool align the selected items in an arc First press the left mouse button at the starting point release the mouse button at the ending point Then you can change the curvature by moving the mouse cursor Click once more to apply Device Representation Each device is displayed as an icon related to a certain device type fully customizable which defines the list of services a device should have to be classified to a particular type The discovery procedure when adding a device once detects all the services running on it consults the device type table Each device has the table of all network services once found for the device You can add and remove new Services from any device The services are constantly monitored and the ones failed to respond are marked in this list It is possible to configure a set of parents dependency tree for a device so that the device is only monitored if at least one of the parents is reachable You can set polling preferences polling frequency and timeout for service probes and select a notifier procedure to undertake when the status of any probe is changing like open a popup window beep send an email or execute a program for each device as well as for each particular service There is history graphs and some SNMP information ava
7. pressing the Connect button There are three connection modes local to connect to the local Dude server note that this option will not work for Linux users running the Dude under Wine you should use remote connection to 127 0 0 1 host instead to connect to the local Dude server remote to connect insecurely nothing including passwords is encrypted to a remote Dude server secure to connect securely to a remote Dude server Remote connection by default is using TCP 2210 port in regular mode or TCP 2211 port in secure mode so make sure these ports are not limited by a firewall The ports may be changed in the server s Global Settings menu The default username for connecting to a server is admin with no password You can change this later Note for Linux users you should start the Dude from the root user or delegate some permissions to your regular user or else the Dude will not be able to ping hosts Graphical Interface 2 of 12 Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_Manual Duration Device Ig Maw26 17 4016 6341 43 MkioTk i a Adee Doe Map 26 17 4011 65 4148 100 041 Logs ome Device P active May 25 175717 692442 11 1 1 Peeters s aan pie active Maw 23 135605 141 2554 105622 ap 0 Map 231 1414 7559 10 Network Map Map r 10 0 0 107 100 0107 Some Device s ae Mass aerTa lat AA mine test map Map r 10 00113 1000 13 SomeDewce
8. 2 Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_Manual Dude server is the actual program which runs in background It does not have any graphical interface and may only be controlled by a Dude client application located either on local machine or anywhere on the network There is also a web interface to basic functionality mostly designed as a quick and accessible review tool not a full fledged configuration application Dude client may connect to the local or a remote Dude server and is used as a graphical interface to it That means that every action is really executed on the server machine and the client is just showing pictures Thus user window layouts are stored on the server and are not lost on disconnect Getting Started When you first start the Dude client it launches the local server and automatically connects to it Then you can disconnect and choose another server to connect to You should remember that the client only works when connected to an either local or remote server If you do not have any Dude server running yet you should start it There is a button on the top of the application window called Server which has indicator of whether the local server is running it is green if the local server is running If you press it a new window will appear that allows you to start stop the local Dude server as well as completely reset its configuration When a server is started you can connect to it
9. Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_Manual Dude Manual From MikroTik Wiki This manual describes the operation of Dude version 1 0 Contents 1 What is the Dude 2 Getting Started 2 1 Graphical Interface 2 2 Network Maps 2 3 Device Representation 3 Configuration 3 1 Global Settings 3 6 3 Group 3 6 4 Device types 7 Networks 8 Services 9 Outages 10 Admin groups 11 Admins 12 Active Admins i Notifications 1 1 5 Address Lists 6 Network Maps ndix A Internal variables Device variables Device type variables Service variables Probe variables Network variables Submap variables Link variables W W W W U WU U U UW 4A oO ta Oe ee ee om ee ee ee ee ee ee ee en ee Pb bh Pb bs NOURWNE What is the Dude The Dude is a visual and easy to use network monitoring and management system designed to represent network structure in one or more crosslinked graphical diagrams allowing you to draw includes automatic network discovery tool and monitor your network whatever complicated it can be The Dude is capable of monitoring particular services run on the network hosts and alerting you about any changes in their status It can read statistics from the device monitored and show you graphs of the monitored values allows you to test and connect to the devices easily and provides some very basic RouterOS configuration tools It is written in two parts 1 of 1
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11. c layout tool button to move the elements into tree like diagrams s Misc Undo Queue Size number of action history steps to allow undo for Ask Confirmation When Removing whether to ask confirmation when removing Tools You may customize the list of tools which may be executed for a device These usually include telnet and HTTP access ping ftp and so on You can add new tools specifying that command to execute Just like for map object labels internal variables may be selected and used here Some built in tools can not be deleted Note these tools are not used to probe whether a device is alive but for administrator s convenience to connect or test the devices manually Files List of the files uploaded to the server like images for network map backgrounds and sounds for notifications You can also remove files from the server Logs List of all available log threads and the subentries of this menu let you choose a particular log thread to view For any particular log thread you can configure how many lines should be shown buffered entries how often to start a new file for the thread and how many files to keep You can filter only some entries out of a thread by writing a regular expression and pressing Enter key or Apply button The regular expressions are saved in the drop down menu so you would not have to rewrite complex expressions each time you want to use them 6 of 12 Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http
12. cations may be launched on an event with some parameters either on server or on all the connected clients Other notification types include sending email sending a syslog event to a dedicated syslogd server showing a popup window flash the screen and play a sound WAW file which can be uploaded on the server The hours during which the notification will be active may be set for each weekday so you may disable it during non working hours and weekends Links List of all the links drawn between map objects You can only remove and configure links here use network diagram to draw them For each link you may choose the primary device it is connected to network does not count as a device so most links will have only one device to choose but if you connect two devices manually you will be given that choice and the type Simple just draw a line between the objects SNMP use SMNP protocol if supported on at least one of the objects connected This will allow you to choose the network interface to monitor traffic on The SNMP statistics will be shown as a small box placed over the line between the objects Address Lists You can define address groups that can be used to exclude some addresses from discovery procedure Network Maps Working with the program mostly happen on the network maps which represent your network graphically You can add objects manually the configuration options of each of the possible map object has b
13. ce Device NotesColumn list newline separated of notes put for the device Device NetMap network map the device is put onto Device type variables Set in device type properties available in Tools and Notifications menus DeviceType Name Device type name assigned for the device DeviceType Url URL field value set for the device type of the device DeviceType NotesCommaList comma separated list of notes put for the device type DeviceType NotesColumn list newline separated of notes put for the device type Service variables Set in service properties available in Notifications menu Service ProbeTimeout timeout for the service probe Service ProbelInterval interval between probing the service Service Status probe status up down unknown Service ProblemDescription problem description Service TimeSinceChanged time since service status was last changed Service NotesCommaList comma separated list of notes put for the service Service NotesColumn list newline separated of notes put for the service Service TimeUp total time the service is up Service TimeDown total time the service is down Probe variables Set in probe properties available in Notifications menu Probe Name probe name set for the service Probe NotesCommaList comma separated list of notes put for the probe of the service Probe NotesColumn list newline separated of notes put for the probe of the service ProbeTyp
14. e Name type of the probe set for the service Network variables Set in appearance configuration available in tooltips and labels Network Name network name De Or unelsonmerlee list newline separated of IP subnetworks assigned for the networ Newer eupecies oun list newline separated of IP subnetworks assigned for the networ Network NetMap network map the network is attached to Network NotesCommaList list newline separated of notes put for the network Network NotesColumn list newline separated of notes put for the network Submap variables Set in appearance configuration available in tooltips and labels NetMap Name netmap name NetMap NotesCommaList list newline separated of notes put for the netmap 11 of 12 Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_ Manual NetMap NotesColumn list newline separated of notes put for the netmap Link variables Set in appearance configuration available in tooltips and labels Interface Name Interface Index Interface Type Interface Mtu Interface Speed Interface PhysAddress Interface PhysAddress Interface AdminStatus Interface OperStatus Interface LastChange Interface InOctets Interface InUnicastPackets Interface InNonUnicastPackets Interface InDiscards Interface InErrors Interface InUnknownProtos Interface OutOctets Interface OutUnicastPackets Interface OutNonUnicastPackets Interface OutDiscards Interface OutErrors
15. ed network maps There are two mouse cursor modes Fw Grabbing tool enables you to move the map by moving mouse cursor while holding left mouse button pressed instead of being required to move using scroll bars Double click opens device properties La Pointer tool default cursor mode when single mouse click selects an object Moving cursor with left mouse button pressed selects more than one object if mouse button was pressed above the free space on the map or moves the selected object s if mouse button was pressed on an object or a group of them Double click opens device properties Left click on an object brings up a menu where you can modify the object properties as well as run device tools Mouse wheel is used to zoom in out the map The maps are built with the following objects Device network host with a unique IP address that runs one or more identifiable services its status may be monitored by E Network network cloud that represents one or more IP networks It usually identifies a network connection of a host i e dedicated network interface of a network device and represents OSI layer 2 interconnection between network devices Submap wormhole to another network map This is useful for splitting one big map into many smaller and more readable ones Double clicking on a submap link will activate the map the link is pointing to if the target map has a reverse submap link the map view will
16. een described earlier or run automatic discovery with the following options General tab Scan networks list of the networks you want to scan Add networks to auto scan whether to add all the found networks to auto scan list 9 of 12 Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki which mean that the networks will be automatically rescanned periodically Device name preference which device name should be used The discovery procedure may define the device name by its IP address DNS name or the string returned as the device name by SNMP protocol In this field you set which one of thee names should be used For example if the field is set to DNS to SNMP to IP then DNS name will be used when available if it is not then SNMP derived name will be used but if neither of them are detected then IP address will be used as the device name Mode scan method May be either fast when devices are discovered simply by pinging sequentially all IP addresses from the network provided or reliable when not only pings are performed but also all other services defined Services tab defines the list of the services for the discovery procedure to to scan for Advanced tab Identify device type whether to assign the type for each device discovered based on services available automatically Add networks whether to add network objects to the map based on found network connections Add links whether to show in
17. ilable as well Configuration Global Settings General DNS primary and secondary DNS servers to be used by the Dude server to resolve DNS domain names SMTP primary and secondary SMTP servers to be used by the Dude server to send out email The From email address should also be set SNMP the default SNMP protocol settings Polling server default settings of how often interval to poll each service and how long to wait for it to respond timeout as well as choose the default notifier executed should a service fail a Server Dude remote whether to accept remote connections on which port to listen and what networks to allow to connect from Web access whether to accept remote connections via web interface on which ports to listen HTTP and HTTPS protocols and what networks to allow to connect from Additionally you can change the information update frequency in clients browsers refresh interval and the client inactivity period after which the web client would be considered logged off session timeout Map Defaults used when no specific settings are made for a particular map or a device Background color Map object device network submap static link dependency appearance label and tooltip contents shape and font for an object Some internal variables like IP address may be used in label and tooltip contents which may be selected out of the Insert Variable dropdown list The variables will
18. ke IP address may be used in label and tooltip contents which may be selected out of the Insert Variable dropdown list The variables will be described later in this document Image the background image for the map Appendix A Internal variables Device variables Set in device properties available in Tools n u Device Types and Notifications menus as well as in tooltips and labels Device Name device name Device FirstAddress first IP address of the device Device AddressesCommaList comma separated list of the device IP addresses Device AddressesColumn list newline separated of the device IP addresses Device FirstDnsName first DNS name of the device Device DnsNamesCommaList comma separated list of the device DNS names Device DnsNamesColumn list newline separated of the device DNS names Device Lookup device name lookup type Device LookupInterval device name lookup interval 10 of 12 http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_ Manual Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_Manual Device UserName device username to connect with Device Password device password Device ServicesCount total number of services running on the device Device ServicesUnknown number of services in unknown state Device ServicesUp number of running services Device ServicesDown number of not running services Device NotesCommaList comma separated list of notes put for the devi
19. n two either horizontally empty left half Ml empty right half I or vertically empty top half B empty bottom half using buttons on the top of each internal window By double clicking on an entry in the selection pane the chosen configuration window will be open on the top half of the window pane zooming the existing windows of the pane to the bottom half Any configuration pane entry may be dragged and dropped onto an existing window or selected with the drop down list at the top of each window and the chosen tool will replace the existing contents of the window The size of any window may be easily resized by moving its borders in which case all other windows will be zoomed accordingly Network Maps 3 of 12 Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_Manual The Dude is created to manage networks graphically so the main interface to the program is the graphical network representation i e network map You can instruct the program to detect all your network devices automatically by specifying the IP address range it should scan The Dude is capable of reading network configuration of the devices that support SNMP protocol and thus is able to make recursively scan the networks connected to the already discovered network devices up to the specified recursion level It can even detect smart switches and bridges that provide link information over SNMP You may divide the network into separate interlink
20. roup You can as well group some RouterOS devices into device groups which make it easies to upgrade a set of routers all at once Device types Device classification types used by the discovery procedure or assigned to some devices manually Each entry defines how the devices of that type will look like icon and scaling Identification and Services tabs are used only by the discovery procedure to determine whether a device found is of that type and which services to probe afterwards required any device of this type must have the selected services active for the discovery procedure to determine the device is of that type allowed the list of other services the procedure will probe on the device All services from this list that are active on a device will be added to the service list of the device ignored the list of services that although used for initial discovery will not be added to the service list of the device For example it has been found that HP JetDirect devices may sometimes restart printing out an unwanted test page when scanned too often on their telnet and SNMP ports so these services although used to detect the type will not be watched later URL which can be used later as an internal variable may be specified for each device type Networks List of all network segments places on the map One network object may have more than one IP network associated to it You can remove networks and change
21. terconnection between the found devices by adding links to the diagram Recursive hops whether to scan recursively all the networks found connected to the initially discovered devices I e in case there were some network devices detected which are connected to more than one network whether to continue scanning also the network these devices are connected to This parameter is set to the maximal hop network device number which to scan the connected networks from Max simultaneous maximal number of connections established simultaneously Some firewalls may limit number of outgoing network connections so you need to show the effective maximum here General configuration for a map accessible with the Settings button General tab Name a distinctive name of the map Probe interval probe timeout notification service polling properties that override the server default ones Define how often interval to poll each service and how long to wait for it to respond timeout as well as choose the default notifier executed should a service fail Autoscan the list of networks to scan automatically with some intervals You can add remove and change settings of such networks The parameters are the same as for discovery procedure Appearance tab Background color Map object device network submap static link appearance label and tooltip contents shape and font for an object Some internal variables li
22. their settings here but you can not add anything here To create a new network you should place it on a map Services List of all the services present on each device You can add and remove service probe from any device as well as change TCP port probe interval and timeout and notification type here for each service independently Service status up down or unknown is displayed for each service listed here Outages tab contains the log of all events when a service went down Outages 8 of 12 Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_Manual Outages table contains the combined log of all probe failures on any of the devices went down and lists whether a service is still down and for how long time or the problem has been resolved Admin groups This menu lets you configure access permissions for administrator groups Permissions are one or more from read read only access to everything write change configuration local access the server locally remote access the server remotely web access the server using web interface Admins List of all administrators that have access to the server Each user must be allocated with permissions given by a admin group You can also restrict user access to a particular network Active Admins List of the current user sessions Notifications Notification types executed if a service changes its state you can select one notifier for a service Arbitrary appli
23. tify device type whether to assign the type for each device discovered based on services available automatically Add networks whether to add network objects to the map based on found network connections Add links whether to show interconnection between the found devices by adding links to the diagram Layer 2 Structure try to discover and display SNMP compliant switches and other layer 2 devices which some of the network devices are connected to PPP Links Graph Service Poll Times display service polling times on the graphs Graph Link Bit Rate display link bitrates on the graphs Max simultaneous maximal number of connections established simultaneously Some firewalls may limit number of outgoing network connections so you need to show the effective maximum here Services the list of services to try to discover for each network device found You can disable some services from being discovered for example the random rnd 50 50 service most probably should be disabled Item placement settings specifies the dimensions of each map element in pixels assumed item width height as well as element number in groups Items are placed in clusters of the defined number of elements big row column These clusters are in turn grouped in a larger group large row column The elements fail to become part of that large group are just thrown one on another and should then be displaced manually Note there also is an automati
24. to poll each service and how long to wait for it to respond timeout as well as choose the default notifier executed should a service fail Services tab list all the services present on the device You can add a new Service probe from the list to the device as well as change TCP port probe interval and timeout and notification type here for each service independently The Discover button will probe all oe services Service status up down or unknown is displayed for each service listed ere Outages tab log of all events when a service went down 7 of 12 Dude Manual MikroTik Wiki http wiki mikrotik com wiki Dude_Manual SNMP some information got using SNMP protocol like the list of interfaces addresses routes load average etc RouterOS some basic configuration tools for RouterOS that allow to enable disable interfaces add remove IP addresses as well as upload files and RouterOS packages History graph that shows how the number of active services change over time Right click on a device brings up a list of additional options most notably the device tool list that is easily customizable in the respective control window select Tools from the configuration plane All This list contains all the discovered devices RouterOS This list only contains the RouterOS devices It displays additional version information for these devices as well as provice an easy way to upgrade some or all of them G
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