A way to turn OFF logging?

RouterOS The User Manager
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Is there an obvious way to turn off the activity logs for User Manager that I’m just missing?

We have a client (a sorority in, obviously, a university town) that hired us to deploy multiple MikroTik RB532-based WiFi access points throughout the house. They also want to be able to control access to the network through MAC authentication. Rather than having to enter each MAC address manually into the access list of every single MikroTik AP, we thought it would be GREAT if we could use User Manager to store the allowed MACs on one of the APs and have all of the others query it via RADIUS.

I set it up using the new MIPS version of User Manager on 2.9.29, and it works great. Exactly what I was looking for.

However, we have a problem now. Every single authorization accept or reject is logged on User Manager to /tool user-manager log. These logs appear to be persistent (stored to disk). There were a couple of nearby users who are NOT authorized to use the system and kept repeatedly trying to connect to a few of the APs, and of course all of their failures were logged. They racked up about 100 log entries in less than 10 minutes.

This is not good. And this is not good because, this being an RB532, we are not storing all of these log entries to a hard disk; they’re being stored to the built-in NVRAM.

We don’t want nor care to keep these logs, and having the log entries pile up as fast as they are just means that we are going to see a vastly shorter life for the flash chip on this RouterBoard. If we could just either turn OFF the logging or at least tell it to not save the logs to disk (just keep them in memory until reboot), that would be ideal. Until then, we regrettably have to turn User Manager off and use the local access lists on the AP instead (a real hassle).

If the ability does not exist yet to turn off User Manager loggin, would you please consider this a formal request to implement such a feature? :slight_smile:

Thanks much,

– Nathan

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In the next version we will have an option where you could specify which logs to write from each router (radius client).

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Awesome. I just loaded 2.9.30 onto one of the RB532s referenced in my first post, turned off logging, and it is running fabulously. No more having to keep three different local wireless access lists in sync with each other anymore!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

– Nathan

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Howdy,

Is there a way to remove/delete the usermanager log?

I have a usermanager log of 330,000 items, mainly authentication failures generated pre-2.9.30 before the logging options became available.

I notice that when i open the log in usermanager that CPU utilisation goes to 100% for several seconds.

Regards…ƒil

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Does anyone know if the feature to save logs on secondary HDD will be implemented in V3 final? As far as I can see it’s not implemented in RC1.

Regards, Giepie

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It is not implemented at rc1,rc2.
It is possible to send logs to remote syslog server.

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Hi sergejs

Someone at MT support already told me that, but the entire reason for going the route I am, is to get away from servers running off 220VAC. All my routers (except user-manager) is currently running on RB532A’s, for power backup purposes. Once the RB1000 hits the market, that would be the route to go, AS LONG AS I CAN SAVE LOGS TO A SECOND DRIVE

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thanks