Hi.
I have been reading about The Dude and I think it would be a great tool for me to use to monitor my networks. I am trying to find the best way to get everything setup initially. Basically, we have a local network at our headquarters and then connect through the internet to around 50 different locations which all have Mikrotik RouterOS.
I would love to be able to see all the devices at the locations network and monitor the connections. Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best way to get this started? I know I can use discover for my local network but how do I add the networks that I access over the internet?
Thank you for all the help you can provide. I really appreciate it.
You will probably want to setup remote servers(agents) and allow access through your firewalls to each remote server from the master. Each server is added as an agent to the master server. If your remote sites are not behind firewalls your job will be quite a bit easier…
I would be very careful with auto discover since it will cause extra load on every device it probes. When using auto discover the first few times only discover a few IP addresses and examine what services/devices get discovered. Make sure to tweak what service can get installed. From what I gather you can add devices to the master server and specify the agent and the probes will run on the agent. I only have 1 server. Be careful not to add any router running BGP since it will have a very large routing table and the dude will automatically gather it.
If you know for a fact that you want a specific probe that does not exist and plan to use auto discover you should build the probe first and learn how to have it automatically added to the device type that it should get added to. This one step will help your understanding of auto discovery and probe building tremendously.
Some other suggestions… Make your top map contain all the other maps meaning don’t put more than 1 map deep since those devices will not show “down” in the top map. Find these posts in the User Manual wiki the “before doing anything” plus a “quick guide to a good probe” and the probe thread pinned at the top of this forum to find probes you want to build/copy. If you don’t know SNMP this will be a crash course.
HTH,
Lebowski