Moving Simple Queue to Last Position

RouterOS Scripting
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Hi,

I’m looking for a script, that can move 1 of my Simple Queues to the last position, that I can schedule to run at regular intervals (or more specifically: whenever a new PPTP VPN client connects).

My current situation is that I’m using the User Manager, where I’ve set a rate limit to each client. Whenever one of these clients connects, their rate limit is done by simply appending a new Simple Queue.
I’ve also created a Simple Queue (PCQ type) to limit all the PPTP VPN users in total, however, this Simple Queue moves up in the Queue Order whenever a new client connects.

I’ve tried to write a script for this, but I was unable to move the Simple (PCQ) Queue to the last position. I was only able to move it to the 2nd-last position, if I knew the number of simple queues, which I can’t get/find with a script.
Currently my best approach would be to try and move it to position 2, then to 3, then to 4, etc., ensuring that it would be in the 2nd-last position.

Help would be appreciated.

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Instead of moving your queue behind everything, move everything else in front of it. Make sure you can uniquely identify the queue and it should work as below:

[admin@MikroTik] /queue simple> pri where name~"^test"
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
 2    name="test" dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 interface=all parent=none direction=both priority=8 queue=default-small/default-small limit-at=0/0 max-limit=0/0 burst-limit=0/0 burst-threshold=0/0 burst-time=0s/0s total-queue=default-small

 3    name="test2" dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 interface=all parent=none direction=both priority=8 queue=default-small/default-small limit-at=0/0 max-limit=0/0 burst-limit=0/0 burst-threshold=0/0 burst-time=0s/0s total-queue=default-small

 4    name="test3" dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 interface=all parent=none direction=both priority=8 queue=default-small/default-small limit-at=0/0 max-limit=0/0 burst-limit=0/0 burst-threshold=0/0 burst-time=0s/0s total-queue=default-small
[admin@MikroTik] /queue simple> move [find name!="test"] [find name="test"]
[admin@MikroTik] /queue simple> pri where name~"^test"
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
 3    name="test2" dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 interface=all parent=none direction=both priority=8 queue=default-small/default-small limit-at=0/0 max-limit=0/0 burst-limit=0/0 burst-threshold=0/0 burst-time=0s/0s total-queue=default-small

 4    name="test3" dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 interface=all parent=none direction=both priority=8 queue=default-small/default-small limit-at=0/0 max-limit=0/0 burst-limit=0/0 burst-threshold=0/0 burst-time=0s/0s total-queue=default-small

 2    name="test" dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 interface=all parent=none direction=both priority=8 queue=default-small/default-small limit-at=0/0 max-limit=0/0 burst-limit=0/0 burst-threshold=0/0 burst-time=0s/0s total-queue=default-small

Edit: original post had pretty inefficient solution with a foreach loop.

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:put [:len [/queue simple find] ]

that gives you the total number of simple queues.

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also, if you just use “move queuename” without a number it moves it to the end.

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Thank you very much. I’ll test this tonight when I’m back from work.

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/queue simple print count-only
will return count of simple queues.

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print count-only has worked in the past on other nodes, but sometimes it’s removed. I’ve stuck with :len because its always worked : ) Thanks MT, your software rocks!

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Thank you everyone.

fewi, your script was the simplest and it worked straight away:

/queue simple
move [find name="PCQ-Limit VPN Total"] [find name!="PCQ-Limit VPN Total"]
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Try this, it should be more efficient as it only moves 1 queue instead of all of them:

/queue simple
move [find name=“PCQ-Limit VPN Total”]

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wow, thanks for that last one changeip. Really appreciate that script.

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thanks a lot, that worked for me