http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22645302 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:48:54 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:48:54 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22672188
Active Wall (free) is a small simple program that I use to see who is using my bandwidth. auto discovers all CPE's, I then group them by which AP they are on. Am very pleased with this setup.

IP Scan, I set up a few excel tables with various IP addresses and it pings them. one list has all my back hauls, another my AP's, and a third has one customer from each AP. Pinging these gives me a good idea of the health of the network, and a good starting place to find the exact problem.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22672188 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:45:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22654913
Star-OS has it's own suite of utilities, so we use that for the in depth troubleshooting.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22654913 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:10:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22653364
Has been very handy in identifying people who have been dominating resources etc.

You can use this on any mikrotik, AP, bridge or whatever. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22653364 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:48:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22647738
Graphing/Trending -- Opsview has graphing/trending but to make complex/customized stuff Cacti is great and really can't be beaten.

Netflow -- You can setup Mikrotik as a netflow probe, which allows you to use a netflow collector like Ntop to view all of your traffic graphically. If you need to do any sort of traffic accounting, netflow is also a great tool for this (although you may want to use a different collector than ntop)

I'm not too familiar with bulk updates of MT config's since I only used 1 to test it out, but you might want to see if there's any sort of bulk update tool (I'd imagine there is). We just installed a bulk config tool for another manufacturer's gear and it already saved us the time today that it took to install it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22647738 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:41:49 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22647698 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22647698 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:31:02 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22647502
Just make sure to program the Dude manually, don't unleash it raw to scan your network or you'll be sorry.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22647502 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:41:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22646883 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22646883 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:21:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22645864 2) cacti

Mike]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-have-tools-22645864 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:50:12 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Must-have-tools-22645302 Thank you for your input and info!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Must-have-tools-22645302 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:52:36 EDT