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.
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]"}Function: snmp_link_info()
if (
string_size(oid(concatenate("iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifAdminStatus.", link_index() ), 300, 600)),
concatenate(
concatenate("if:", link_index(), " - "),
oid(concatenate("iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifDescr.",link_index()), 60),
"
Admin ",
oid(concatenate("iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifAdminStatus.",link_index()), 60),
", Oper ",
oid(concatenate("iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOperStatus.",link_index()), 60),
"
Last change: ",
oid(concatenate("iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifLastChange.",link_index()), 60),
"",
"
"
)
,
""
)
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