Traffic Flow interface names

RouterOS General
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I’ve turned on Traffic Flow and sending the flow data to IBM Tivoli Netcool Performance Flow Analyzer. When I look at the data grouped by interface (so I can check my bandwidth usage), the various interfaces show up named as follows:

Exporter IP Address, Interface Name, Flow Version
172.20.10.254, 13@172.20.10.254, NetFlow v9
172.20.10.254, 108@172.20.10.254, NetFlow v9
172.20.10.254, 109@172.20.10.254, NetFlow v9

Is there any way to either:
a) Get the miktrotik to name the interfaces to something more readable (e.g. VLAN103 as opposed to 13@172.20.10.254)?
b) Run a command on the mikrotik to show me which interface is ‘13’, ‘108’, etc.

Or, is this something that the flow analyser software should be handling? I notice that ntop displays them with the same names as the IBM product.

I’d like send he flow data for about a dozen Mikrotik routers to the flow analyser but the interface ‘names’ that show up are confusing things.

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13, 108, 109 are SNMP Indexes for interfaces

try to enable SNMP on your router - maybe your software is smart enough, and will automatically resolve interface names via SNMP

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{ :foreach i in=[/interface find] do={:put ($i.": ".[/interface get $i name]) }}

this will show internal .id for each interface - it’s the same as SNMP index (just in hexadecimal form)