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The Dude

For being mostly free (at most $45), Mikrotik's The Dude monitoring system is on of the most useful network monitoring tools any IT group could possibly deploy.

Here's some customizations I regularly use.

Notifications

 

Templates

The are notification template customizations I use.

Email

Subject

[Service.Status] [Probe.Name] on [Device.Name] (Map: [Device.NetMaps])

Body

Service [Probe.Name] on [Device.Name] is now [Service.Status] ([Service.ProblemDescription])
Map: [Device.NetMaps]
Address: [Device.AddressesCommaList] ([Device.FirstDnsName])
Custom Field 1: [Device.CustomField1]
Custom Field 2: [Device.CustomField2]
Custom Field 3: [Device.CustomField3]
Notes:
[Device.NotesCommaList]
log to events
[Service.Status] [Probe.Name] on [Device.Name] - [Device.FirstAddress] ([Device.FirstDnsName]) - ([Service.ProblemDescription]) - (Map: [Device.NetMaps])
log to events - csv
"[Device.NetMaps]","[Device.Name]","[Device.FirstAddress]","[Device.FirstDnsName]","[Probe.Name]","[Service.Status]","[Service.ProblemDescription]"
log to events - json
{"map":"[Device.NetMaps]", "device":"[Device.Name]", "firstAddress":"[Device.FirstAddress]", "firstDNSName":"[Device.FirstDnsName]", "probe":"[Probe.Name]", "status":"[Service.Status]", "problemDescription":"[Service.ProblemDescription]"}

 

 

 

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