I begin using The Dude about 4 months ago, because of my started transition from ubnt to mikrotik.
So I use 4.0b3 Dude on x86 windows platform (because I didn’t find anyway to use someting better than 3.6 into routeros machines), monitoring routeros 6.18, ubiquiti 5.5.6 and other (only ping) machines.
I noticed some really annoying bugs:
- Syslog settings disappear randomly; After some days in some dude systems (windows 7 64 bit) my log files in “Logs” disappear and only default ones remain (Action, Debug, Event, Syslog). This is a really serious bug, because my log notifications change in “Action” and dude stops logging important things, as firewall logs! I also noticed the random disappearance of settings->syslog entries!
- Charts. I theoretically like 4.0 charts features. But lot of them are useless because if you set a serious “raw value keep time” (in settings->Chart, 30 days for example), it become impossible to display one chart with 4-5 entries compared. I try to explain why: when you open the chart in dude client, it always starts in “all” zoom, and after only 4-5 days of data this is enough to freeze client dude istance! You have to quickly change zoom in 1 or 2 days, before systems stops responding (tested on varius client systems, included core i3 and i5, so it isn’t a cpu issue).
You can say: “why do you need 30 or more days of “raw value keep time” ?”.
See my picture: http://sl1systems.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dude_chart.jpg .
Here dude has only 3 days of “raw value keep time”, and 30d of “10 min value keep time”; The charts show traffic made by users on 4 public hotspots; Before 17 of November Dude make a sort of “time average” which results in an incorrect viewing! (before 17 of November you could thing users made much less internet traffic than 2 days ago, but this is a wrong measurement) - Imaginary Data Sources!!! I have a dude server which created imaginary builtin data sources, not removable, collecting it from other sites which are not reachables and never connected to this server!
Why? Can you help me showing this behavior? I simply see in Charts->Data Sources things that don’t belong to any device in any network map, and never insereted (dude started with clean database)!
Mikrotik, give me some answer, please …
