Netwatch with fetch stopped working after 7.13

[iv34531]

I am glad I found this post after changing my search on google. Same here. My Netwatch configuration worked with a external script to call discord webhook. After upgrade to 7.13 it stopped with message “Couldn’t start task: cannot open file: permission denied”. Tried everything until I read this post to add output=none and left everything as before. Now I am getting the push messages. Many thanks for posting this

[mujagawudakhi]

Hi,
I have the same issue with Netwatch - it stopped sending messages to telegram using fetch.
Asked the MikroTik help desk for advice and below is an answer from them:
_"Starting from RouterOS 7.13, to execute fetch requires ftp policy when you want to access (read, write files) and Netwach does not have such.
To fix this issue:

1. modify Netwatch, add additonal paramter “output=” with value that is not file;
2. create new script that dont-require-permissions and call this script from Netwatch.
   https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Netwatch
   https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Scripting#Scripting-Scriptrepository
   Best regards"_

In my case adding at the end of the script “output=none” resolved the issue:
/tool fetch url=“https://api.telegram.org/botToken/sendMessage?chat_id=-ChatID&text=Device is DOWN” output=none

Thanks this “output=none” helped my netwatch to work again without further investigating… will adapt the scripts soon

[israelrmm]

@holvoetn

Hi,
I have the same issue with Netwatch - it stopped sending messages to telegram using fetch.
Asked the MikroTik help desk for advice and below is an answer from them:
_"Starting from RouterOS 7.13, to execute fetch requires ftp policy when you want to access (read, write files) and Netwach does not have such.
To fix this issue:

1. modify Netwatch, add additonal paramter “output=” with value that is not file;
2. create new script that dont-require-permissions and call this script from Netwatch.
   https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Netwatch
   https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Scripting#Scripting-Scriptrepository
   Best regards"_

In my case adding at the end of the script “output=none” resolved the issue:
/tool fetch url=“https://api.telegram.org/botToken/sendMessage?chat_id=-ChatID&text=Device is DOWN” output=none

Thanks!!! it works for me

[JMCV019]

Hey everyone! I know this post it’s a few days old, but I’ve ran into a similar issue with my Netwatch rules, every time it tried to run them the following message appeared:

”
(netwatch:SW_XXYYZZ) no such item (/tool/netwatch/get; line 3)
”

Line 3 on my UP code says:

:local nombre [/tool netwatch get [find host=$ip] comment]

Tried quite a few things but ultimately for the solution was changing the before mentioned line of code on to:

:local nombre $"comment";