Dude v6/v7 - Feature request list

In order to improve Dude v6 we will collect feature requests from this forum

If your desired feature is not yet implemented and you cannot find it in list below, you can create a separate feature request post with detailed description - and your feature request will be added to this post.

It will help to discuss each feature in its own topic in order to help developers to understand what should be done.


Related
Dude v6/v7 - Know BUGs
Dude v6/v7 - Missing features from earlier versions
Vote for new DUDE features! - Old feature request topic
Manual:The_Dude/v3/Feature_Requests

Server
Dude server for PPC (R1xxxx)
Just make The Dude for mipsbe
[feature request] get unlimited connections again dude/winbox intermittent reconnections dude/routeros_monitored

Permissions
Feature Request: Dude Tools based on User Privilege
Network Status Reports

Maps
Feature Request - GoogleMaps API integration
Feature request - Dude Google Earth Integration
Feature Request: Network Maps rotation
Feature request - Multiple layers Maps
Feature request - Default SNMP profile for the Map
Feature request - Default Password profile for the Map
Feature request - Credentials profiles for Discovery
Dude Network Map Query
Export Map interval

Monitoring
Feature request - Ask options
Feature request: Automatic Unack and more Ack options
Monitor submap on top map
Addition to appearance features (Submaps mainly)

Devices
Ipv6 support in Dude
IPv6 support in Dude
Feature Request - Password Profile to Assign to Items
Feature request - Add Existing device to the map
Feature request - Checkbox for gather routes and PPP interfaces
Feature request: specify type of architecture
Move devices to maps.

RouterOS Management
Feature Request [Batch Update/ Batch Script]

Agents
Agent Behavior

Appearance
Feature request - Different appearance for UP and DOWN events

Notifications
Feature request - Multiple polling profiles
Feature request - Different notification message for UP and DOWN events
Feature request - Specify custom text for up/down events
Feature request - Separate Schedule from Notifications
Feature request - Notification Schedule - More granular time period
Feature request - Rename Notifications into Actions
Feature request - Possibility to view Notifications assignment
Feature request - Repeated notifications
Feature request - Add Dude access to SSH private keys for ssh-exec

Logs
Feature request - Multiple logs instances
The Dude Logs.

Variables
Feature request - Unique code variable for notification
Feature request - Add new variable - [Device.LastOutageComment]

Reports
Feature request - Sending Reports

Charts
Feature request - Autocreate data source for all ports of the device
Feature Request - Data Source Scaling

Probes
Fearute request - Polling multiple IP of the device
Feature request - Add WMI support
Feature request - Add easy configurable basic probes
Feature request - Services groups and edit multiple services at once

Outages
Feature request - Add Notes to Outages

Webinterface
Feature Request
Feature request - Full featured Web access

Tools
Feature request Execute Tool over multiple selected devices

Other
Feature request and comment
Feature request RouterBOARD upgrade mechanism
Feature request - Accessibility of Dude data via SNMP and API
Show/Edit devices info via command line

Also, please add:

Long overdue support for IPV6 addresses (there are feature requests on this forum going back to 2009)

Support for probing services over SSH tunnels so that we can check services on remote networks, not directly connected to the Dude server.

Thanks,
Jason

Hi,

I really would link to see a dude integration with the google maps API. I imagined a specific field where you would put the location Address and when you hover the mouse over this icon the pop-up window would show the location on google maps. Here is a quick mockup that i made for these feature.

Going to shamelessly link to a couple of my feature requests
Chart scaling
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/feature-request-data-source-scaling/106418/1
and Agent Behavior
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/agent-behavior/106001/1

I would also like to request better device linkages. Being able to move the location that the link connects to on the device, being able to give a smooth curve or rigid angle to a link, moving the device label on the link. Pretty much anything that can keep me from needing to do this.
Woodmont Centre Servers.jpeg
To represent multiple networks going to and from the same devices. E.G. A storage network and a data network for server clusters running off the same switch.

Ability to control the icon color based a color variable that can be used in a function.

Nested Functions on interface device labels, this function doesn’t work;
[if(Interface.OperStatus=“up”,“”,“Interface Trouble”)]

Allow custom field to be used as a variable in a function.

Prefer 64 bit counters.

Access the RRD variables in an advanced tab for the link.

Thanks,
Lebowski

Network Maps:
It would be handy to have a user-option that can rotate through the Network Maps on say a 10 second/predetermined cycle showing all the elements laid out.

For a visual output in a SysAdmin’s office it could then bring to attention any devices down, especially where a Flash or Popup may lock to the Map a device has failed on.

In a few places we are looking at old refurbishing old WinXP Thin Clients (the type that erases an unsaved session on reset) to standalone Dude clients for this exact purpose. So far a static map of the main network is very handy but adding this would be one heck of a next step up!

Dear forum users,

Please read feature request posting guide from first post before posting in this topic.

Thank you!

automatic backup dude database on external ftp server.

Hello,
It would be awesome to add an automatic and manual export option of map as it was in the (very) old 4.0beta3 version.
The map could be sended by ftp, for instance…
I used to export this map and then create a planned task that send this page through FTP to a web site. I was then able to offer my users a simple view of our network…
Really essential :slight_smile:

I’d like to have import/export between winbox ( Addresses.CDB / addresses.WBX ) and Dude. We have multiple engineers installing devices. Every once in a while we merge the winbox addresses so we all know each customer box(es). For firmware updates dude will be more effective.
Also access to multiple dude server instances from within one client session.
Finally, move devices from one network-map to another

I’d like to use a external DBMS for DB redundancy and syncronization betwen The Dude servers.
I’m using dude currently on CHR.

scheduled device upgrades
scheduled config backups

Hi,
anyone knows where to find latest updates on TheDUDE and are MK still developing on the software

/system scheduler
add interval=1d name=backup on-event=backup policy=
ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,password,sniff,sensitive start-date=
nov/04/2015 start-time=03:00:00
/system script
add name=backup policy=
ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,password,sniff,sensitive source=“# Set l
ocal variables. Change the value in "" to reflect your environment.\r
\n\r
\n:local hostname "dude";\r
\n:local password "pass-ftp"\r
\n:local username "user-ftp"\r
\n:local ftpserver "10.36.8.12"\r
\n\r
\n# Set Filename variables. Do not change this unless you want to edit the
_format of the filename.\r
\n\r
\n:local date ([:pick [/system clock get date] 0 3] \\r
\n. [:pick [/system clock get date] 4 6] \\r
\n. [:pick [/system clock get date] 7 11]);\r
\n:local filename "$hostname-$date";\r
\n\r
\n# Create backup file and export the config.\r
\n\r
\nexport compact file="$filename"\r
\ndude export-db "$filename.bkp"\r
\n\r
\n:log info "Backup Created Successfully"\r
\n\r
\n# Upload config file to FTP server.\r
\n\r
\n/tool fetch address=$ftpserver src-path="$filename.rsc" \\r
\nuser=$username mode=ftp password=$password \\r
\ndst-path="/rsc/$filename.rsc" upload=yes\r
\n\r
\n# Upload backup file to FTP server.\r
\n\r
\n/tool fetch address=$ftpserver src-path="$filename.bkp" \\r
\nuser=$username mode=ftp password=$password \\r
\ndst-path="/dude/$filename.bkp" upload=yes\r
\n\r
\n:log info "Backup Uploaded Successfully"\r
\n\r
\n# Delete created backup files once they have been uploaded\r
\n# so they don’t accumulate and fill up storage space on the router.\r
\n\r
\n/file remove "$filename.rsc"\r
\n/file remove "$filename.bkp"\r
\n\r
\n:log info "Local Backup Files Deleted Successfully"”

Please, I will repeat my post from here:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/the-dude-v6-36rc-test-builds/97878/1


Hello. Here we are used to use The Dude as we think its an awesome network monitoring tool.

One little thing is really annoying me, which is monitoring BGP Routers.
When we enable the RouterOS checkbox, all those routes (more then 1.2 million) would be read by The Dude.
If I enable SNMP, this also occur, which makes The Dude go crazy when a link become unavailable and all those routes need to disappear from the router.

So, would be possible to create a checkbox to not import routes from these types of routers?
This would be really effective as we could monitor all those services behind these routers but with only this exception.
I did read about many interfaces (used to appear in a PPPoE Server) also make this kind of behavior.

Maybe two checkbox, one about PPP interfaces and another about Routes.

Thanks!!!

The / dude devices print or get command displays device name, IP, and custom fields..

Can I make it so that the charts can be viewed from winbox

Feature request, please add :slight_smile:
Monitoring vrf hosts

What about a User permission feature! Not only READ OR WRITE!

I want to give read-only access to several user, but only for a few maps or pannels.

Best Regards
Florian

In addition to more granular user permissions, as requested by @ffrauter, could the users be authenticated using Active Directory, LDAP or RADIUS rather than just locally defined users in The Dude?