What is the difference between "snmp" and "routeros" in the Mastering Type option?

My apologies if this has been answered before, but, I can't seem to find any posts regarding this.

There are two ways to collect information, SNMP or Router OS. Router OS is only supported by Mikrotik applications. SNMP is an open standard. You will want to use SNMP unless there is a specific reason you need ROS.

There are two ways to collect information, SNMP or Router OS. Router OS is only supported by Mikrotik applications. SNMP is an open standard. You will want to use SNMP unless there is a specific reason you need ROS.

what would be some reasons to use ROS over SNMP? Any differences in speed and packets between the 2, or does ROS just use specific OIDs?

I don't know but with over 1000 probes with 1 minute polling my server is never using more that 300kbps with SNMP so you probably wont need to think about utilization.

As far as what is ROS specific there might be things like usernames and signal strength on wireless access points that are not in SNMP but stuff like that is vendor specific and could be added. For example Cisco's access points only give you the mac address and the ip address of the connected user, you can't track someone's signal strength very easily. I think you can in ROS, not a great example but I think you get the picture.

Awesome; thanks for the help!