Already done. We are considering all options.
Then there is a hope 
Fingers crossed!
Integrate the CAPs to the DUDE and start maintaining it. Dude is a great program. Much better than those paid ones.
This is one of the best news i read on this forum in years. At least there´s hope. We are counting on you normis !
They have been considering for many years. It can continue to infinity. What hope we can have?
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Can’t … hold.. breat…h…muc…h…llloooonnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooo
CapsMAN better be awesome, cause it’ll take a miracle to save the dude. By miracle I mean acknowledgement and roadmap from Mikrotik rather than rumors. I know from experience if you ignore your customers and keep em in the dark waiting for a explosive announcement when they’ve been out in the back alley and coffe stands of MUMs looking for crumbs, begging and scratching at the door… that by the time you’re ready. They will of moved away..
Sad 
Even more sad 6.11 dropped my CCR and 6.10 appears to be stable. So I can’t try CapsMAN.. whilst I’m at home I’m reconfiguring my UniFi AP’s and installing NetXMS (MT is still doing all the heavy lifting). Don’t make the mistake of too little too late. Be open, communicate with your minions and your NOC slaves. We need more than crumbs, we crave meat. Glorious succulent juicy Eye Fillet steak slow cooked over 14 hours in an oven that eats WiFi for breakfast.. Not these crumbs you keep feeding us. FEED US NORMIS. DAMMIT FEED US!
Already presented? What was decided? Nothing? OPENSOURCE the thing already. On things I would love to do is make it work with other databases (SQL Server and mySQL). That, by itself, would open up a lot of add-ons.
Give a developer one week to go through the code and remove anything proprietary, the release it. Make the first initiative be to clean up the code (if needed). Keep Mikrotik person as a reviewer and give the person 2 hours per week to work on The Dude (review other people’s work).
It would be nice to see some sort of feedback or progress.
Until then
R.I.P The Dude.
Sorry, no progress, but not canceled either.
Capsman already running but dude nothing new. I am full of hope that it will continue to be developed, at the moment too much on the need to combine in order to adapt it to current needs.
Bringing in CapsMan here is kinda sidetrack…what we have been waiting for for years is development of the Dude.
Strange things happen, i.e. probes stops working, labels for links show only Rx[Interface.InbitRate]…no need to say more.
I would pay for the Dude if I could get it up and running as a final and stable snmp tool, rather than waiting and listening to rumors…
What about an open source “lite” version for Linux/Windows and a “supported” pro version to make money?
Public development, control of what goes into the code stays with Mikrotik.
It works for a lot of open source projects. Red Hat Linux is a good example, also Asterisk by Digium…
To have a proffesional licence as you said it is a good option.
+1, I agree with this, it give an incentive to develop The Dude
Why not?
Mikrotik says the Dude is a “besides”-project that they work on when they have time and which they cannot prioritize.
It is obvious they won’t get any time either, and therefore cannot do this in favour of other revenue-generating activity.
If they could have an income from the Dude as well, I believe it would be easier to invest dev time in it.
Many people have offered Mikrotik money for The Dude as a supported products they provide. They declined. The Dude has and always will be an unsupported product from Mikrotik.
If you need a proper NMS you should look elsewhere.
The last time The Dude was updated (which is still a beta release) was over 2 years ago.
Mikrotik too change their decisions from time to time, and we rarely know before they announce a product.
Stopping the Dude at the Beta stage is not very wise.
At least they could give it a few rc cycles to strip off most of the bugs, and then release a final version “as is” without adding more features.
Which NMS tool do you recommend?
I’d like to deploy a server based tool with SNMP logging, storage and graphing.
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I am having my own custom NMS developed as the ones available currnently dont meet my needs.
Offhand i can suggest Observium, take a look and see if it meets your needs. You can also use PRTG to an extent.
Any news related to The Dude? There are new and interesting things The Dude is standing there. May know something about the amendments to webserv? I have a CF card with ROS and does not want to put The Dude on Windows.
Unfortunately the response from Mikrotik is exactly the same as the last 3(5?) years and I don’t believe anything at all will happen
This despite the massive demand from customers, obvious business benefits and ignoring the substantial negative perception it creates towards Mikrotik as a whole.
If ever there was a move beyond the “maybe, in the future, sometime, wishy washy statements” they should really consider a crowd-sourcing funding model for the next stable release version as a once-off project. Set funding targets based on bug fixes, features, improvements etc. This funding model will cover any development costs and could be used again for TheDude v5 etc.
(If Mikrotik does not want to have to worry about the significant extra cost of providing support, besides a forum, that is fine with me and does not have to change.)
Please Mikrotik, help us out!