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Net Watch

1) The script improves the RouterOS netwatch tool by sending a single email with the full netwatch table report instead of individual emails for each down device. It also only sends an email at startup if there are any down devices. 2) It takes the netwatch information directly from the netwatch table instead of controlling devices directly. It also ignores disabled netwatch entries. 3) The script consists of a startup script that initializes variables and sends an email at startup, and a netwatch script that checks the netwatch table at intervals and sends a report if any devices are down or if all are back up.

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Net Watch

1) The script improves the RouterOS netwatch tool by sending a single email with the full netwatch table report instead of individual emails for each down device. It also only sends an email at startup if there are any down devices. 2) It takes the netwatch information directly from the netwatch table instead of controlling devices directly. It also ignores disabled netwatch entries. 3) The script consists of a startup script that initializes variables and sends an email at startup, and a netwatch script that checks the netwatch table at intervals and sends a report if any devices are down or if all are back up.

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I wrote this script to improve basic RouterOs netwatch tool, but my difference f

rom others netwatch scripts is that my own use also the oroginal routeros tool n
etwhatch.
This script has some advantages:
1) it is completely independent from devices to control, as it take informations
directly from netwatch table, so you only have to compile /tool netwatch with y
our devices and don't take care of the script;
2) it sends only ONE e-mail with a complete report of netwatch table, instead of
one e-mail for each device;
3) it's able to send only ONE e-mail at router startup and only if there is any
down device in netwatch table;
4) it takes care of disabled netwatch entries, so you can disable control on dev
ices you know are switched off or not present;
5) it can reduce the number of e-mail alerts, as it checks netwatch table at fix
ed intervals (scheduled) and the probability to found a false down device (becau
se of one ping lost in netwatch) at those intervals is surely lower than the inf
amous netwatch's false negatives and positives;
6) it's lot simpler than other netwatch scripts;
The script is composed by two different scripts: a startup-alarm (scheduled at s
tartup) script used to initialize the global variables (control variable, e-mail
address variable, identity variable) and to send a mail when router has been re
booted; and the netwatch script (scheduled at 5, 10, 20, or more minutes) .
This is the startup-alarm script:
Code:
# Schedule this script to run at startup and only once
# "net" variable is the "netwatch" script control variable and it's initialized
at "0" by this script
# "recipient" variable contains the mail address used to send and receive e-mail
s (it can be the same!)
# "thisbox" variable is used to put device identity in mail subject
# first disable "netwatch" script in order to leave time (120 sec) to the router
to complete boot up
/system scheduler set netwatch disabled yes
:global net 0
:global recipient yourMail@domain.com
:global thisbox [/system identity get name]
:delay 120
# wait to leave time to NTP client to update time and date
:local thisdate [/system clock get date]
:local thistime [/system clock get time]
# send now a mail to "$recipient" and enable "netwatch" script
/tool e-mail send to="$recipient" \
subject="$thisbox started on $thisdate at $thistime";
/system scheduler set netwatch disabled no
and this is the netwatch script:
Code:
:global net
:global recipient
:global thisbox
:local A 0
# check if there is anything "down" in /tool netwatch and check only enabled ent
ries
# variable "A" is used to save this check result
:foreach i in=[/tool netwatch find where (disabled=no)] do={if ([/tool netwatch
get number=$i status]="down" && $A=0) do={:set A 1}}
# if there is a device down, send a report and set 1 the control global variable
"net"
# if all device are up and "net" variable is =1, send a report and set 0 the con
trol global variable "net"
:if ($A=1) do={
:if ($net =0) do={
:local report "";
:foreach h in=[/tool netwatch find] do={
:if ( $report != "" ) do={ :set report "$report;"; };
:set report ( $report . "\n" . "$[/tool netwatch get number=$h status]" . " "
\
. "$[/tool netwatch get number=$h comment]" . " from " . "$[/tool netwatch get
number=$h since]");
}
/tool e-mail send to="$recipient" subject="$thisbox controllo rete" body="$rep
ort";
:set net 1;
}
} \
else={
:if ($net =1) do={
:local report "";
:foreach h in=[/tool netwatch find] do={
:if ( $report != "" ) do={ :set report "$report;"; };
:set report ( $report . "\n" . "$[/tool netwatch get number=$h status]" . " "
\
. "$[/tool netwatch get number=$h comment]" . " from " . "$[/tool netwatch get
number=$h since]");
}
/tool e-mail send to="$recipient" subject="$thisbox network check" body="$repo
rt";
:set net 0;
}
}
To show script's operation I put there my netwatch print:
Code:
[admin@WIFI_CASTELLO] /tool netwatch> print
Flags: X - disabled
# HOST TIMEOUT INTERVAL STATUS
0 ;;; WIFI_Municipio
192.168.2.2 1s 1m up
1 ;;; WIFI_Casa_A
192.168.2.3 1s 1m up
2 ;;; WIFI_Cast_nano
192.168.2.19 1s 1m up
And here is the mail content if "WIFI_Casa_A" was down:
subject: WIFI_CASTELLO network check
body: up WIFI_Municipio from mar/29/2014 04:42:00;
down WIFI_Casa_A from mar/29/2014 11:35:03;
up WIFI_Cast_nano from mar/28/2014 19:34:55
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=83539

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