Audible Alarm on disconnect

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
1

Hi there,

I was just wondering if there would be a way to get my RB2011UiAS-RM to produce a continuous, audible noise on one/both of the following scenarios:

  1. Network cable disconnected from a specific port
  2. Unable to ping 8.8.8.8 for >30 seconds

So that I am instantly alerted to any network downtime?

Thank you.

2

No, there is not any way!

3

Of course it is possible!
You need to write a script that detects the condition and issues a beep command.
And you can schedule this script to run every 30 seconds and perform its action.
I am not going to write this for you, I only want to counter the remark made by @ingdaka.

4

That’s great to hear, thank you!

I’m very new to MikroTik and my general programming experience is quite limited too - I don’t suppose you could point me in the direction of some guides or tutorials on similar things that I can adapt into this function? I’m guessing it won’t be quite as easy as:

ping 8.8.8.8;
if ping = no reply;
	beep;
	wait 30s;
	ping 8.8.8.8
else:
	wait 30s;
	ping 8.8.8.8

Thank you in advance.

5

Go to tools → Netwatch. Add the IP you want to monitor. Write the script you want for both conditions…
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Tools/Netwatch