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Probably the selected serial port is used by PPP client or server, or by the serial console. Check the availability and use of the ports by examining the output of the /port print command. Alternatively, select another port for connecting the LCD, or free up the desired port by disabling the related resource

RouterBOARD 2011U and CCR series devices are equipped with a resistive touchscreen, for quick access to device stats and simple configuration options. Touchscreen requires pressure against the surface to register a touch, therefore light swipes and quick/short taps might not get registered (as opposed to a capacitive touchscreen commonly found on phones). If you find trouble operating the screen with your finger, you can also try a stylus, or opposite end of a pen.

Before the LCD touchscreen can be used, it needs to be calibrated at least once. After the first successful calibration, data is stored on the router. If no calibration values are present, calibration process will start automatically.

Take-screenshot function allows to create BMP image of currently displayed LCD screen and saves it in File List with specified name. Screenshots without file name are not saved, screenshots with an existing file name are overwritten.

Interfaces menu provide configuration for interface display timing in Stat Slideshow. Up to 10 additional (non-physical) interfaces can be added to the LCD.

Maximum interface speed that is used to determine bandwidth usage in All interface graphs and Interfaces screens. "auto" value can be set only for physical interfaces.

A Page is an screen that can contain up to 12 interface bar graphs. Sub-menu allows to configure which interfaces are shown in a page. Up to 5 pages can be added to all interface graph screen and up to 12 interfaces per page. To add an interface to a page, it first must be added under /lcd interfaces sub-menu.

PIN code number allows to protect sensitive menus on the LCD screen. The PIN number will be asked if Read-Only mode is disabled and you add an IP address, reset or reboot the router. Default PIN is 1234

Since v6.0, LCD has a menu structure. Menu screens consist of buttons that are used to navigate the menus. A scrollbar is shown on the right side of the screen if it does not fit on the actual display. The screen can be dragged up or down to access more options if they are available. At the top of each menu screen is a "Back" button that jumps to the previous screen.

If the router has default configuration - user named "admin" with no password, then a warning on LCD will appear. This screen shows IP"s assigned to the interfaces which could be used to connect to the router.

Interfaces menu displays all the Ethernet and Wireless interfaces. Bandwidth usage is shown similar to the All interface graph screen. From the Interfaces screen you can choose a specific interface to look at.

If a tap lands into the top right corner of the screen (square box 1/4 of the screen height), info time interval is changed: Min -> Hour -> Daily -> Weekly -> Min...

All interface graph screen shows the RX/TX bandwidth usage about all interfaces. The max values are calculated like this - for Ethernet interfaces it"s the negotiated rate or set speed. For wireless interfaces it"s calculated from used band, channel-width and chain count using the theoretical values. The goal of this screen is to see how values are related to each other for a single interface.

Stat Slideshow screen is similar to the "Stats" screen, but the interfaces are switched after they timeout. Settings for slideshow are stored in RouterOS submenu /lcd interface

These screens are only available when Read-Only mode is disabled. To access any of the screens, the Pin number must be entered. If the Pin authentication is successful, the user must confirm the desired action by pressing the "Yes" button, or cancel by pressing - "No".

The current MT LCD module scrolls and displays the configured info every X (user settable) seconds. This is nice except when you need to watch something. For example, say you just want to watch traffic on Ethernet 1. It is frustrating to watch it for the 10 seconds and then have to wait for it to get through everyting else. This is where the buttons come in.

The RB2011 is a low cost multi port device series. Designed for indoor use, and available in many different cases, with a multitude of options. The RB2011 is powered by RouterOS, a fully featured routing operating system which has been continuously improved for fifteen years. Dynamic routing, hotspot, firewall, MPLS, VPN, advanced quality of service, load balancing and bonding, real-time configuration and monitoring - just a few of the vast number of features supported by RouterOS. RouterBOARD 2011UiAS-IN, in comparison with RB2011L series, not only has five Gigabit LAN ports and five Fast Ethernet LAN ports, but also has RJ45 serial port, USB port and more RAM (128MB instead of 64MB). Also, it has RouterOS L5 license (instead of L4) and nice touchscreen LCD for configuration. SFP cage is also present (SFP module not included!) Tested and recommended to use with MikroTik SFP modules: S-85DLC05D, S-31DLC20D and S-35/53LC20D (not included) There is PoE output function for port #10 - it can power other PoE capable devices with the same voltage as applied to the unit. Maximum load on the port is 500mA. RouterBOARD 2011UiAS-IN comes with desktop enclosure, LCD panel and power supply. Wall mount kit (product code RBWMK) for network closet is available for purchase as an optional accessory.

MikroTik provides routing, switching and wireless equipment for all possible uses – from the customer location up to high-end data centers. Back in 1997, MikroTik developed a RouterOS software system that provides extensive stability, controls, and flexibility for all kinds of data interfaces and routing. Five years later, MikroTik created their own hardware called RouterBoard which today in combination with RouterOS supports all the necessary features for an ISP - routing, firewall, bandwidth management, wireless access point, backhaul link, hotspot gateway, VPN server, and more. Their products are not only used by ISPs, but also by individual users and companies for building data network infrastructures all around the world.

In this article, you´ll see how Paessler PRTG monitoring software monitors the hardware and software components of MikroTik devices. For demonstration purposes, I"ll use a multi-port MikroTik RB3011 router running on an ARM architecture CPU (1.4 GHz x 2), 1 GB RAM, and 128 MB disk space. The RB3011 has ten Gigabit ports divided into two switch groups, an SFP cage and a SuperSpeed full-sized USB 3.0 port, for adding storage or an external 3G/4G modem. The RB3011UiAS-RM unit comes with a 1U rackmount enclosure, a touchscreen LCD panel, a serial console port, and PoE output functionality on the last Ethernet port.

PRTG has dozens of sensors you can use to monitor metrics on your MikroTik or any other device. By using General sensors and some of the SNMP sensors,we can get insight into diverse metrics such as availability, port status, uptime, utilization and logging (find out more about SNMP monitoring with PRTG here)

The starting point would be to add Ping sensor,HTTP sensor andPort sensor. They will check if the MikroTik device can respond to ICMP or HTTP queries, and if certain ports are open and accessible. For example, port 8291 is used for connecting via Winbox and 8728 for API connections.

As both PRTG and MikroTik can speak SNMP (v1, 2c and v3), we can leverage off it by adding the following SNMP sensors: SNMP System Uptime sensor,SNMP CPU Load sensor,SNMP Memory sensor and SNMP Disk Free sensor. As the names of the sensors imply, these sensors will provide us with the metrics of system uptime, CPU load, physical memory and free disk space.

By navigating to “MikroTik UI > IP > SNMP”,you can enable and configure SNMP and SNMP Traps. The Syslog protocol can be enabled and configured at “MikroTik UI > System > Logging > Actions > remote”.

By using the SNMP Custom Table sensor and MikroTik MIB file (e.g. OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.14.1.1), we can get more information about network traffic per network interface. Wait…SNMP Custom Table, MikroTik MIB, OID? Don’t worry, this is a part covered in the last section of this article.

Would you like to get more information than the amount of the incoming, outgoing or total traffic? By using our flow sensors, PRTG can provide the details about bandwidth consumption per connection, protocol or talker. One of the most powerful RouterOS feature is sending flows via IPFIX and/or NetFlow v5 and/or NetFlow v9 to multiple destination flow collectors. We have got you covered here with our native flow sensors: IPFIX sensor, NetFlow v5 sensor or NetFlow v9 sensor. On the screenshot below, you can see a part of the toplist “Top Connections” which shows 5-tuple (source IP, source, port, destination IP, destination port, protocol).

You´ll need to download MIB (Management Information Database) from the MikroTik website and then import it into the PRTG by using.MIB files are hardware and operating system-independent information files that tell network management systems how to retrieve in-depth data using the SNMP protocol from network devices. You can download the latestfile (Last updated: 15-Sep-2020). MIBs used in RouterOS v6.x:

But what if you would like to import the entire MIB file and choose what you want to monitor? That is also possible, you can easily do it by using, choosing the imported MikroTik MIB and OIDs of your preference. As a result, you might see similar sensors as shown in the screenshot below.

MikroTik RouterOS also supports API which give us the opportunity to gather different information by using HTTP XML/REST Value sensor and REST API sensor. API closely follows syntax from CLI. To use API RouterOS, version 3.x or later is required and API service (port 8728) enabled. API Documentation is available at this LINK.

I really enjoy working with MikroTik devices and I"m curious to learn more about how you are monitoring your MikroTik devices in your IT infrastructure!

There are two ways of approaching this challenge. (#1) running MikroTik virtual appliance (CHR) in AWS (#2) using Virtual Private Gateway, a “cloud-native” networking solution provided by AWS. Each solution has its own benefits.

If you go in this direction, you are going to deploy a tiny t2.micro instance (this is AWS Free Tier item, 750 hours/month of free usage) to run MikroTik RouterOS.

This virtual appliance (instance) will work just like your on-premises MikroTik, same OS, same commands. When you configure Site2Site VPN, you do the same method as connecting 2 on-premises datacenters. Learn more here: Manual:Interface/SSTP – MikroTik Wiki

The clear benefit is you do not need to manage MikroTik on AWS, and AWS Virtual Private Gateway is supported by many other appliances, including cross-cloud configurations to Azure or GCP.

Officially Azure does not support MikroTik, however, it works very nicely with zero issues; we configured it multiples times when building Azure-based labs. Very similar config to AWS.

!) switch - added hardware STP functionality for CRS devices and small Atheros switch chips (http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CRS_examples#Spanning_Tree_Protocol);

*) ppp - added CoA support to PPPoE, PPTP & L2TP (Mikrotik-Recv-Limit, Mikrotik-Xmit-Limit, Mikrotik-Rate-Limit, Ascend-Data-Rate, Ascend-XMit-Rate, Session-Timeout);

[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: benand_no_swecc lcd_ctrl=84 parts=1 boot_part_size=4194304 gpio=249403 HZ=300000000 mem=128M kmac=CC:2D:E0:03:8E:B1 board=2011r5 board=2011r5 ver=6.45.7 bver=3.41 hw_opt=00718004 boot=1 mlc=11 console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs noinitrd

RouterBOARD 2011UAS-2HnD has most features and interfaces from all MikroTik Wireless routers. It’s powered by the new Atheros 600MHz 74K MIPS network processor, has 128MB RAM, five Gigabit LAN ports, five Fast Ethernet LAN ports and SFP cage (SFP module not included!). Also, it features powerful (up to 1W!) dual chain 2.4Ghz 802.11bgn wireless, RJ45 serial port, USB port and RouterOS L5 license, as well as desktop case with power supply, two 4dBi Omni antennas and LCD panel.

RouterBOARD 2011UiAS-RM, in comparison with RB2011L series, not only has five Gigabit LAN ports and five Fast Ethernet LAN ports, but also has RJ45 serial port, USB port and more RAM (128MB instead of 64MB). Also, it has RouterOS L5 license (instead of L4) and nice touchscreen LCD for configuration. SFP cage is also present (SFP module not included!)

MikroTik routers are combining a powerful operating system (RouterOS) with low-cost prices. With Logstail.com and its advanced features built on top of ELK stack, we will visualize our MikroTik logs and analyze our network and security performance and get instant email alerts alongside with encriched reports. The importance of using log management software is highlighted in this article from our blog. In the few following steps we will analyze our logs on the platform, but also benefit from the numerous features of Logstail.

In the Prefix field, we should also add the word “mikrotik” after our “User Token” so as our logs to be distinguished from logs coming from other apps (ex. Apache, Nginx e.t.c.). After the word “mikrotik” we have to specify a “DeviceId” e.g. “OurRouter” or “Router_1” in order to distinguish this MikroTik Router logs from other Mikrotik Routers that we are going to add later.

In the next action, we enable logging on our MikroTik firewall. If we have a set of firewall filter rules already on our Mikrotik, we can just simply enable logging. This procedure can be done in Action Tab of any firewall rule by selecting Log checkbox.

In this last step, we will configure MikroTik to send DNS related logs to Logstail.com, so as to be able to monitor what our local users visit more. To do so we should add this logging rule to log DNS requests and replies:

Logstail.com with its advanced features brings the functionality of ELK Stack to your hands. You don’t have to be an engineer in order to set up and use Elasticsearch anymore. Now you can easily turn your Mikrotik data into actionable insights with just some tweaks. You can maximize the performance of your infrastructure or be notified of potential problems and take the appropriate actions. Sign-up for a free demo in order to realize the power of Logstail.com.