Hello. I’m new to mikrotik and i want to put some questions. I want to start a network of 25 clients which i want to manage using mikrotik’s winbox. I read the mikrotik manual and i watch some tutorials but no one show me how do i put each client and how do i manage them, from the begining step by step. I hope someone can help me.
I am not sure I understand the question… There are 25 clients? How many computers at each site are they all connected to you directly or to the internet?
If they all connect to you build a single dude server and attempt to auto discover a little bit of the network at a time or build it manually. I build things manually cause scanning is very CPU intensive.
If they all connect to the internet you will need to allow your dude server to come into their network through a hole in the firewall. Or build a dude server for each site and make them all agents to a central dude server.
HTH
Lebowski
Thank you for the quick response. To answer your question, the clients will be all connected to me. You say that you use the Dude, but what about winbox or usermanager, is the Dude more easy to manage? Like i said before i’m new to mikrotik and i want to know if there is a tutorial that can show me step by step how i put the client in winbox (or Dude), how i limit(or not) the download or upload, how i delete the client, how i put the client on stanby, how i send him a notification for not paying etc. I hope you can help me.
Rockyking
The Dude is a network monitor. You can examine traffic and determine if there is a problem with your network.
Winbox is an executable program that is used to connect to and configure Mikrotik RouterOS routers via a graphical user interface.
You can use The Dude to run winbox through the right click tools menu.
I don’t have any RouterOS devices. So are those 25 clients connected to your main site by T1 lines or by fiber or radio bridges or are they all in the same building? With The Dude you can add your routers and switches to draw the picture of those connections. I don’t know what step in this process you are at.
Did you just purchase a few router boards and decide you are going to connect everyone together? I don’t use usermanager either, it sounds like you install usermanager on top of RouterOS to get some extra functionality so you can act like an ISP.
So you don’t need the dude but it is nice to troubleshoot and understand your network.
You are going to have to do a lot of studying it sounds like to get the system set together the way you want.
1.) The DUDE is a monitoring server, namely SNMP, so it will monitor your routers, accesses points, and switches.
2.) User Manager is a RADIUS server to handle AAA services.
3.) Winbox is a device management tool, allowing you to log into it and make configuration changes, just a GUI instead of a CLI, both have their place.
4.) Limiting upload and download speeds is done via QoS, very in depth subject, there are several basic examples in the wiki to get you started.
5.) Payment notification and such are tricky again, usually handled via the web-proxy, there are a few threads in the forum that talk about how to do it, and I think a user written wiki article.
6.) Being able to take payments can be a bit tricky too, I know User Manager has the ability to use paypall I believe, but if you want a more flexible solution in that regard you are going to have to build it yourself or pay for someones solution.
This is what we use to handle most of what you are talking about for us.
http://myinnsite.com/
It basically all comes down to, what you want it to be able to do, and how much time effort and money you want to invest in setting that system up.
Thank you very much for your help. 