network-topology-wrapper/docs/mikrotik-setup.md

MikroTik Setup (RB4011 / CRS / CAP AX)

Use this to improve discovery quality and live monitoring.

1) Enable SNMP (for future LLDP/topology pollers)

Example (adjust community and allowed IP):

/snmp set enabled=yes contact="DevOps" location="Office" trap-version=2
/snmp community add name=net-topology addresses=192.168.88.0/24 read-access=yes

2) Enable LLDP/CDP neighbor discovery

/ip neighbor discovery-settings set discover-interface-list=all protocol=lldp

3) Optional: Send flow data (traffic relations)

RouterOS v7 supports Traffic Flow (NetFlow/IPFIX style):

/ip traffic-flow set enabled=yes interfaces=all cache-entries=4k active-flow-timeout=30m inactive-flow-timeout=15s
/ip traffic-flow target add dst-address=192.168.88.50 port=2055 version=9

• Set dst-address to the VM/laptop running your collector/flow parser.

4) Optional DNS visibility

If your DHCP clients use local DNS server, send DNS logs/events to the collector endpoint:

• POST http://<collector>:8088/api/ingest/dns

For now in MVP, easiest path is log tailing from local DNS server logs (DNS_LOG_PATH in .env).