NCS: Proposal of a platform for the management of Network devices based on RouterOS

Authors

  • Alberto Daniel Nuñez Agurto Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE
  • Eduardo Benavides-Astudillo Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE
  • Diego Ricardo Salazar Armijos Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE
  • Milton Temístocles Andrade Salazar Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18779/cyt.v13i1.356

Keywords:

Mikrotik, RouterOS, API-Mikrotik, virtualization

Abstract

In organizations, having the availability of network services is essential. However, this availability is affected mainly due to two factors: the need for an expert in the configuration of the equipment and the
movement of this expert to the site, so that it configures each of the devices that need such configuration. On the other hand, Mirotik has an Operating System (OS) for Routerboard equipment, called RouterOS (RouterBoard Operating System). This OS supports communication through the protocols telnet, ssh, but the applications that use these protocols generally do not have a graphical interface, there are also proprietary graphic tools such as winbox and webfig to configure these devices, but this brings with it other problems such as: manual configuration of device in device, greater use of the CPU of the devices, and consumption of more bandwidth to manage them. To solve these problems, has been developed an application with web interface, called Fast Network Config System (FNCS), which allows to manage and configure graphically, remotely and centrally the devices with RouterOS, much more efficiently than the solutions available. To develop the application, we took advantage of the API-Mikrotik that is integrated in RouterOS. Subsequently, the speed was compared in the configuration of the proposed tool FNCS versus winbox and ssh, and it was found that the solution FNCS is up to 200 times faster. 

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Published

2020-06-30

How to Cite

Nuñez Agurto, A. D. ., Benavides-Astudillo, E., Salazar Armijos, D. R., & Andrade Salazar, M. T. (2020). NCS: Proposal of a platform for the management of Network devices based on RouterOS. Ciencia Y Tecnología, 13(1), 89–96. https://doi.org/10.18779/cyt.v13i1.356

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2020): Science and Technology Journal - January - June 2020

Section

Computer Science

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