Monitor devices attached to ports.

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Morning all,

I could find any answers after checking out the wiki or the forums so i though i would post here.

What i am trying to do is find a routor (or device) that i can put onsite to monitor the health of some embedded serial servers. There is 2-4 of them at each site connected to the internet. Some sites have a computer there some do not. So computer based software is no good to me. At the moment we are just monitoring the internet connections.

What i was hoping to do is put a mikrotik routorboard in and connect one of the serial servers to each port. Then use SNMP to monitor the state of the port.

Do you think this is possiable? Any better subjestions?

Thanks,
Laurence

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Accessing a serial device as if it were physically connected to your PCs’ COM port:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Serial_Port_Usage#Accessing_a_serial_device_directly_by_SSH_.2F_telnet_.2F_mac-telnet

Connect serial device to routerboard and use SNMP monitor PC to access the port directly.

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Interesting but due to the programs and distences involved we have to use the com adaptors. (some of the devices are actually 4/8com ports on one device.)

I have been thinking about it and what if i attached each com adaptor directly to one of the mikrotik ports? I should be able to check that there is a device attached to the port through snmp. And that it is passing traffic.

Thanks again for your help.