I’m curious—how do you handle automation in MikroTik?
For example, I often work with wireless antennas that have many stations connected. When I need to find the best frequency, I currently do it manually—going through each device, pasting the same command, and if I need to make changes, I have to repeat the whole process again.
This got me thinking—there must be a better way! I’m brainstorming automation ideas because I know I’ll have to do this repeatedly in the future.
How do you automate similar tasks? Any scripts, tools, or methods you use? I’d love to hear your insights!
I just created an Ansible playbook to set up an RB960 as a NAT gateway to my ISP. It is 99% idempotent. The Ansible community.routeros.api is pretty good now. Haven't tested this yet, as I'm still awaiting the fibre install.
I still have minor problems with several calls reporting that they had changed the config, but the config is unchanged. I also have one firewall rule that reports a change, and that results in duplicate rules every time the playbook is run.
The settings are in vars/interfaces.yml
The firewall and nat rules are in vars/firewall.yml
A few basic settings are in the inventory file (see the inventory_template)
Nb. variables in these files have - replaced by _ to make Ansible happy