Hi there.
I have 30+ microtiks in my company restaurants. I have it monitoring for ping status to alert me if they go down but I really need The Dude to continuously gather performace statistics for all the Microtiks. I don’t need notification if the CPU goes to 80%, but I need to see if one freezes, what its performance stats were prior to it freezing. (we are getting a TON of them freezing up-trying to figure out what is causing them to just vapor-lock.)
How would i do this? Is this a probe I set up? What is the verbage I would use to monitor this?
Thank you
Amanda
When A device stops responding to the dude several things happen or stop happening for one the graphing of the system stops. So if you open your dude map and hover on a device the graph will end exactly at the time that the last good reading took place. Also depending on your configuration you should have got an email right after the last failed SNMP read was (default is 3 failed attempts).
You should be able to determine the services attached to each mikrotik by double clicking on a device and then clicking on the services tab. Clicking on add service will let you pick the service you would like to monitor. The built in cpu monitor does a nice job of measuring cpu there are other probes like memory and disk you might want to add. The custom probes discussed all over this forum don’t need to be created or used.
If the links inside and between sites did not get added/discovered you can manually add links by right clicking on a map, click add link then draw a line between devices.
Setting up email to know when a service or device is not responding is fairly straight forward. It is based on how you setup notifications underneath the polling tab in the global settings or on the same tab on each map or device. I leave all devices and maps default and setup notification under settings button on the top left settings button except where I want a unique notification from a specific device. You specify the email server under the general tab of the same global settings button on the top left.
You can manually add services or you can modify the list of services that are discovered automatically. Although I recommend manually adding probes which are “services” this whole piece is documented in the User Manual wiki at the top of the page.
Since you have devices locking up I’d say they are all on the same version of software and they suffer from a known bug. I would search the forums for the version you are running, determine if others had/have the same problem and upgrade them to a newer version. The dude should be able to upgrade them once you setup the administration and get the required files.
GL
Lebowski
Thank you for the detailed response
When I try to add services, I don’t see CPU. How can I add a CPU monitor for the microtiks. ( i may have deleted it accidentally early on in this process.)
And when I add something like disk and memory, it shows as down even thought it isn’t.
Well since you have a very new server just start over. I don’t have any actual MikroTik devices so I come here and help with supporting the Dude since I get a lot out of it.
After you have re-installed the server, add a map, leave the top dash board alone and rename it to @dash or something, This will keep it first in the list of maps and make it easy to get back to the dashboard when you are using the list on the left… Note: Do not add maps inside of maps, visual notification doesn’t echo up past a single level. So the top map is a dash and every other map is directly on the dash (if you want…). Now add one map then go into your first map and manually add a single device (if it sticks on “loading” add another map and then delete the “loading” map later), make sure SNMP is setup then on the device then click the services tab and click the discover button. You should see the allowed and detected services get added to your new device inside your new map.
This is a new install so you should get all the services that can work on that device. If you don’t get the services you are interested in go to the global settings (top left settings button). Click on the discover tab, open the services drop down and make sure the services you would like to discover are allowed to be discovered a bunch of them should be checked by default. The Dude will check for each OID that represents a service. If there is no response for that service/oid then it will not be added to that device or if no services are discovered you have not setup snmp correctly. Add the correct snmp information to both the dude and your device and then click discover again (snmpwalk should show you oids and not timeout).
Open the device types drop down then click the button with three dots “…” and that will list the devices, you will find mikrotik is the first device. Double click that device you will see required services and allowed services tabs. Notice Memory and Disk are not allowed, maybe because Mikrotik doesn’t populate those OIDs? But there are plenty of other services that are allowed. Don’t modify this stuff till you understand it.
Now with your new test device that you clicked discover for did it add all the allowed services? If not why? Certainly you can add services to devices manually but you have to know that the service you are trying to add actually exists on that device.
HTH,
Lebowski