We have both mikrotik and unifi APs in the organisation. We have been using unifi APs much longer. We’ve only been using capsman for a week or so.
Simple observations:
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If we need to mesh APs, we use unifi. Unifi can adopt an AP wirelessly and they will automatically mesh and provision. Configuring mikrotik AP wirelessly for meshing, using capsman, so far eludes me (and does not seem possible as yet with this version of capsman).
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In CAPSMAN when an AP has a connection issue, it completely disappears from “REMOTE CAP” tab. In unifi, you can see that the AP has the status “disconnected”. When you have many APs in mikrotik, you could easily miss the few that drops out, unless you memorise the total number of APs in the organisation. Not only that, since it disappears completely rather than showing as disconnected, you don’t know which AP is down. I would have to maintain a list of my APs in excel and manually eyeball the list to find out which AP is missing, or use an external application like the dude.
Is there a feature in CAPSMAN which would make an AP sticky in the list and chg status to disconnected instead of disappearing completely from the list, when an AP is down? Would appreciate experts in capsman sharing their experiences and best-practice habits managing/monitoring APs in capsman.