I am sure that mikrotik has enough money to develop dude further. But they just don’t want to or can’t do it. There was no clear explanation from mikrotik why they have such attitude. Maybe we all would stop crying here if we knew the reason.
Did you look at NetXMS? In which regards did it not meet your needs?
Yes, that is what we figured out. After intensive search we found CloudView NMS: http://www.cloudviewnms.com . Seems like it can monitor/manage practically anything: SNMP, sysLog, TL1, services, web access, servers… Remote Web web access via cool HTML-5 web interface from any browser including mobile devices
We ended up using CloudView NMS http://www.cloudviewnms.com . Seems like it can monitor/manage practically anything:
SNMP, sysLog, TL1, services, web access, servers…). They discovered our network put in maps, Secure multi-user web access with configurable profiles . Alarms forwarding via many protocols (including e-mail) Scalable to thousands of nodes and unlikee others they do not charge as your network grows. They added our device and some other features by our request. Their manual is not that good, but their e-mail support is very enthusiastic. BTW - it runs on any platform and can be accessed remotely from any browser via rich HTML-5 interface
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE_oIIIwWl0 The Dude Abides.
Any information? Something new about The Dude?
Guys I’ll send you a bag of pot, maybe even a new rug, just don’t let The Dude die! 
They already did it.
It is a great software, good think’ed need a few thing’s to moove on .unix and repair a few bug’s. If it is so vital make the Dude commercial and all the problem’s are gone, or let source to develop in public. As far as i know , even the big money software didn’t come so close to monitoring soft lie u.
ps. think the pot is over, need a new charge P:
Hi guys,
we need the stable monitoring system. With old Dude can we not to get it.
is the Dude dead or not yet?
Like I said, Mikrotik is pretty close to something, but for some unknown reason they just dropped it as an incomplete product years ago.
Why not at least strip off the bugs in the existing version?
I hereby invite Normis to give some quality information on this. The situation now is that we are all sitting around a little unsatisified!
I would love it if Mikrotik would either update The Dude or release another similar product. The main issue for me with the Dude is how slow the map become when adding more than just a few devices.
That and the email component won’t work with authentication, which basically nixes email alerts.
I think it’s missed opportunity for MikroTik, and a big one. There is something special about Dude. In a way, it’s similar to WinBox.
I fell in love with WinBox the first time I’ve seen it. RouterBoards are nice, RouterOS is otherwise not bad either, but the key feature, for me at least, is WinBox. It’s THE way how interactive administration should work, simple, powerful and intuitive. No web administration can ever come close to that, and it includes WebFig, which is kind of nice, compared to other web administrations, but compared to WinBox… no thanks.
Dude did not get as far as WinBox did, I could come up with lots of complaints and improvements, but it was on the right path, before it ended in current zombie state. From time to time I’ve been looking into replacements, because it doesn’t seem there’s going to be new Dude any time soon (if ever) and I could use some improvements (IPv6 for example). But the results so far… Last time I spent half an afternoon trying to get stupid CPU graph from one product. I even resorted to reading a manual and still failed in the end. With such competition, Dude could be very successful.
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The Dude Abides…
3 years with no progress, no feedback.
Anyone reading this thread should find another NMS system.
This thread should be locked.
Talked to the MT guys in Prague and I understood that the Dude programmer is no longer around and they are somewhat reluctant to dig into the code…
According to John they are still considering to make another version, so I don’t think all hope is out.
That’s the point. They are considering…
I think why they didn’t launch this fo free open source, will be more progress. This this damn program are great to windows. IT will be another ideea to migrate to unix systems. One setup for life
Waiting and hope.
I appreciate very much The Dude, and I want to say “thank you” to Mikotik for that very usefully and easy to implement free NMS.
The dude has helped me to offer to my clients a added value and better service.
Actually I have 10+ virtualized instances of The dude on win xp virtual machines monitoring remote networks.
Thank you Mikrotik
It´s very sad to see this great piece of software become an abandonware. Every one that comes into my office and see my 50 ´´ screen dude monitoring more than 400 devices in real time becomes impressed with the application. I even integrate it with Google Translator voices, so when a specific tower becomes offline it speaks out loud what is happening. Mikrotik you have done something that even big players like Cisco, HP and Junniper haven´t. You created the ultimate NMS system and release it to the community, i understand that it could be dificult and expensive to mantain it for years and years. Please, just release the source code so we can finish it…