The Dude is a great (and free) way of monitoring your network. It has two parts, The Dude client and RouterOS server. A VM will be running RouterOS on our Hyper-visor and be constantly monitoring the network, while The Dude will run on our machine and tell us all the info from the server.
The Dude and RouterOS download:
/ip address remove 0
/ip address add address=[static ip]/[CIDR subnet] broadcast=[default gateway ip] interface=ether1
/dude set enabled=yes
Example of Step 5.2:
Get get the following settings:
IP Address: 10.1.1.36
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (/24)
Default gateway: 10.1.1.1
Use: /ip address add address=10.1.1.36/24 broardcast=10.1.1.1 interface=ether1
Changing the default admin password
The default user/pass is admin/[blank] which is not so secure, so it's best if you change it with the following command:
/user set admin password=[new password]
To logout
/quit
Show IP Address
/ip address print
Snmp is a protocol that the dude uses to find out inforamtion from switches and other devices. Things such as what interfaces they have and their current data rates. This is super useful for finding out where all your data is going...BUT FIRST...SNMP needs to be enabled. Here are a few pointers to get SNMP working on your network.
Cisco Switchs
Some useful commands:
To enable snmp from CLI:
In the dude map, you may need to change cisco switches Snmp Profile property to v2-public (ie Snmp v2c) other wise they will not populate the information as they should.