If you are an admin of a network, you should always monitor the network and know what goes on in it. Monitoring is the responsibility for each network admin. To do so, MikroTik provides an application named Dude that allows you to monitor your network. Here is a short tutorial on how to install Dude on MikroTik.
At first download the dude package (.npk) and the dude client (.exe) from MikroTik software download page (https://www.mikrotik.com/download).
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Connect to the MikroTik OS via Winbox. Open files upload the .npk file to the host. Reboot the device to complete the installation of Dude server. Open system and packages. If the installation is successful, you will see Dude package here.
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Open terminal and write below code enable the Dude server:
/dude set enable=yes
Also, with the below code you can check the Dude status:
/dude print
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After this step, you should install .exe file on your pc
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Connect to MikroTik VPS server to monitor the network. After installation enter the IP, username and password. Now you can ctart scaning and monitoring the network.
