Question to our users about controllers

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  1. Yes, I’m interested in a central controller. I would use it for managing updates, network wide settings and network wide monitoring. A centralized capsman would fall under that umbrella.

  2. I would run it as a self hosted server on either my VM platform or as part of a central powerful MikroTik router. I would not like to run it in the public cloid or in a MikroTik cloud.

  3. The following features is what I would like:
    Automatic handling of updates (firmware and ROS). Either fully automatic (nightly) or at least so I can manually select a version to update/downgrade a selected number of routers to. I would also like to be able to create groups of routers to act on.
    For configuration, anything system wide. Such as wireless APs (capsman/multiple capsmans). But actually not much. Easy way to log in to a specific router though.
    For monitoring I would like a system wide overview where I can see active ports, VLAN assignments, VLAN names, routes, etc. Perhaps a way to follow a traffic flow (some kind of global packet capture/Torch function).

  4. I would like for it to be a totally new thing. Perhaps a web UI / backend API server combo that can talk to all MikrotTik devices. Perhaps the MikroTik devices can connect to this central API and keep a connection to it at all times. Some kind of mutual TLS certificates would probably be needed for security.