automated system update

RouterOS Scripting
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i’m going to automate system update within a few mt-router networks and like to ask a few questions, i could not find answers to yet.

there is an undocumented paramter (2.9.x):

/ system upgrade mirror
set enabled=no primary-server=0.0.0.0 secondary-server=0.0.0.0 check-interval=1d user=“”

anyone an explanation? why is not in the manual, neither online, nor pdf. looks like something to automate upgrading?!

otherwise i had probably to use a system script, checking for new available update(s), downloading it and restarting the router by scheduler?

i found one forum-message concerning this: http://forum.mikrotik.com//viewtopic.php?t=4818

BTW which protocol is used for this, ftp, scp?
i’m using scp to copy files from and to the routers with ftp and telnet usually disabled.

TIA

Is /system upgrade supposed to work?
2

Hm, am i alone with this problem? How do other people upgrade their large quantities of MT-boxes? :wink:

I tried to configure and to use “system upgrade mirror” but it seems to do nothing at all.

any hints?

3

this is not used now, we planned to make special upgrade server but this has not been done yet

4

thanks for the information!


i wrote a little script for my purposes:

/ system upgrade upgrade-package-source 
add address=<ip-> user="<user>" 
password="<password>" 

/system scheduler
add name=sched_upgrade on-event=upgrade start-date=jan/01/2006 start-time=02:00:00 interval=1d

/system script 
add name=upgrade source={/system upgrade refresh
	:if([/system upgrade get [/system upgrade find source=<ip>] status]!="installed")
		do={/system upgrade download-all reboot-after-download=yes}
	}

btw. system upgrade seems using the winbox port.

5

I seem to be having some issues with this script, I can’t get it to run at all. Nothing in the log, and run-count will not increment.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-Russ

6

Nevermind, I figured out something else.

Thanks,
-Russ

7

Care to share it with us?

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/system script
add name=upgrade source={/system upgrade refresh
:if([/system upgrade get [/system upgrade find source=] status]!=“installed”)
do={/system upgrade download-all reboot-after-download=yes}
}

My question is the script works fine up to the point to where its suspose to excute the :do Command but it will not start downloading the new package and then reboot and install.
Yes it increments and shows that it ran.

9

Hi, any progress with this feature? Is it possible to run own mirror for example on ftp?

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/system scheduler
add interval=1d name=update on-event="/system package update\r\
    \ncheck-for-updates\r\
    \n:delay 1s;\r\
    \n:if ( [get current-version] != [get latest-version]) do={ upgrade }" policy=\
    ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,winbox,password,sniff,sensitive,api start-date=jan/01/2010 start-time=00:00:00

I am using this and works fine for me on ROS version 6.x