Hello,
I have DOZENS of sessions saved in Winbox. That really saves me from remembering DOZENS of IPs, usernames and passwords.
Would it be possible to have some sort of “find” textbox, similar to what is in almost every window of RouterOS, that would filter displayed sessions to those containing typed text?
Thank you in advance.
Keep up the good work!
Why not use The Dude, which was made for this purpose?
Thanks Normis for the suggestion, however I forgot to mention that the sessions are from DOZENS different customers… So they are not connected with each other and certainly won’t fit on one map 
Winbox is a great tool that manages alll of them with ease and allows me to log in to each one in just seconds. I’ll try Dude but I suspect that it gives too much overhead in my scenario.
And please think about the “find” textbox, IMO it shouldn’t be a big deal for you.
Thanks!
The Dude doesn’t need to have all devices in one map, connected all together. You can just add random devices with no real relation, just make a list like you have in winbox. They don’t even need to be monitored, you can use Dude for simple management.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll give it a try and report back my results. Thanks very much!
Example list of devices in Dude:
It sure would be nice to have folders in winbox so a person could store customers in one folder and towers in another! It would make it so much quicker than having to scroll down a very long list! If there were folders one could sort clients by their respective subnets.
is the above not the same thing?
Normis, The Dude solution is definitely not as good as find/filter button in Winbox would be… In order to use Dude you need to run local server (because it must work even if the whole network is down). Another issue is that in Dude there is no session manager - so you cannot save credentials for different Dude servers, you have to enter them by hand whenever you want to connect to other Dude server.
Thus I’m still lobbying for a simple find/filter button in Winbox that would display only those sessions that contains entered substring in name, IP, MAC address, or username.
Think also this way: the number of sessions in Winbox for any given Winbox user will not shrink. So the issue will pop up again sooner or later. And the solution is programmaticaly very simple.
You are specialized in useful tools so I really hope you will do it
Thanks in advance.
I don’t think we will expand the winbox loader anymore, you must use the Dude. This is why I ask, what improvements to the Dude do you want to see, to make it usable in such way?
Definitely one thing. After clicking the “thunder” icon on top left, there should be list of Dude Servers to choose from, and an ability to save credentials:
Session Name, IP, Username, Password
The list could look much like it looks in Winbox.
This would make much easier switching from a local server to other servers, and managing these accounts.
And of course I opt for plain text passwords in the .cfg file, like
If it seems unclear to you, just let me know.
But I’ll still lobby for the Winbox solution, it seems to be an hour or two for an average developer 
Thanks very much.
You can do all that.
this way, all your agent maps will be inside ONE dude instance
I’m missing the option to move devices between maps. After adding e.g. 30 devices to one map, I realized that ONLY option to organize and filter them out would be the “Map” dropdown. But after adding I’m unable to move them to other map, so I suppose I’ll have to drop them and recreate again… Or is there any faster method?
I’d prefer encryption of C:\Documents and Settings%USER%\Application Data\Mikrotik\Winbox\winbox.cfg with all saved plaintext passwords first…
copy and paste works for moving
I don’t use Dude because it causes some of my older CPE’s to become non-responsive. And I don’t have the time to try and figure out why on my own.
By the time I get the help I need by asking on this forum many of my customers will be pissed off enough to no longer subscribe to my service!
I sure Dude is probably a great program, but I have had nothing but problems with my network when ever I have tried to use it.
Having it always running in the background is a pain.
I like Winbox!!!
so don’t run it in background. run it only when you need it
I got a better Idea! … I just wont install it!!!
In dude you can add all the devices without polling them.
I know what you mean causing problems with older devices.
Add the devices manually and you’ll have your list of devices.
Aug
Thanks for the advice
I’ll give it a try!