For those of us using custom monitoring and management interfaces (such as Nagios) it’d be nice if there was a trigger we could use in a hyperlink to make a call to winbox (IE: winbox://<router_IP>) which would open winbox and input the <router_IP> into the connect to field.
It’d be even better if we could pass user/pass arguments to winbox, but I wouldn’t want this to be stored in clear text in a web URL, so this is more wishful thinking.. maybe if it was stored in a MD5 hash, or some other encryption that’s a little more secure…
I’m thinking of less key strokes.. when you have 150+ Mikrotiks you want to type as little as possible to get to the information you need..
That’s why scripting a hyperlink like:
winbox://10.0.0.1/$USER$PASS
would be helpful.. that way you just click on a link and get a winbox UI. Plus it saves me from training all my tech monkies on how to use the command line variants. Otherwise I’d just use SSH..
As I have been struggling with this, too, I now created a small utility to do exactly this:
Enable you to use URLs like “winbox://192.168.1.1/username/password” (or also just “winbox://192.168.1.1”).
It’s just one very small file (currently 168 kB), with the ability to register and unregister the necessary handlers itself.
I’ll put it up on my webpage today, just have to run for one more wireless installation now…
Yes, but handing over several command line params has to be implemented etc.
It’s finished here and with a more or less idiot-proof GUI. And it doesn’t rely on dozend-megabyte .NET stuff to do simple things, like some other more general utilities I found. I hate having to install frameworks and several MB of code to get simple things done…
