[Mikrotik follow-up needed] Any way to persist a :global variable so it survives reboot?

RouterOS Scripting
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I’m looking for a way to persist a :global variable so it survives a reboot.

Any ideas?

–jeroen

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Try store them in “comment”

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What entity types would best be suited for such a comment?

–jeroen

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The “/system note” is a good place. It is displayed at the start of every terminal session, but beyond that, it doesn’t ever “do” anything. Alternatively, you could create a custom disabled item at any menu, and use it as a comment. By virtue of being disabled, it won’t do anything.

OR (my preferred approach), instead of doing that, you could write a startup script in “/system scheduler” that initializes the global variables to whatever values you need.

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Thanks. Since it’s related to log buffers, I decided to put it in this entry (which I need to bail out on if it doesn’t exist anyway):

:put [/system logging action print as-value where name=failedauth ]

The not so cool (or - even though it’s a bug - maybe cool), is that WinBox does not allow setting this comment.

–jeroen

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Woot! You can set and retrieve the comment. But WinBox won’t show it or allow you to change it.

Pixie dust!

  /system logging action set failedauth comment=12
  :put [/system logging action print as-value where name=failedauth]

–jeroen