Alternative to Netwatch

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@Netwatch UP threshold

What are the default thresholds for a netwatch script to mark a check as UP? I have found forum responses where it seems there used to be netwatch attributes such as success-count but these do not seem to be available in rOS 7.

I have my netwatch “up-script” set to:

:local details ( "sent-count=" . ($"sent-count") . " response-count=" . ($"response-count"))
:log info "PRIMARY INET UP $details"
:if (($"response-count") = ($"sent-count")) do={
/ip route set distance=1 number=[find comment="primary_route"] 
}

but realised that if the response-count was less then sent-count (say, if the link is not yet reliable) the primary_route distance will never be set, netwatch marks as UP and may flap DOWN/UP. I need a way to set my primary_route only if the UP condition is reliable and not just a single successful ICMP result.

I can’t find documentation on how routerOS determines the netwatch UP condition.

I thought it may just be the reverse of the DOWN threshold ie, in my case (I’m using the netwatch ICMP probe type):

packet-count=15 packet-interval=500ms thr-avg=600ms thr-jitter=2s thr-loss-percent=85% thr-max=2s thr-stdev=500ms

But it marks the connection as UP after a single ICMP packet is successfully sent.

Im using this type of script as of right now