This is a very simple guide and it’s concept, firstly we need to talk about is what are we trying to monitor lets say its a router and we want to monitor how much data is flowing though the router to the outside world.
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Some routers support something called SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) this protocol was meant to make monitoring powerful and less of a headache! but in reality that’s no the case and it can be a headache. We personally use something like NETxms to monitor a network
You can use other features scripts on Mikrotik Routers to do something on events like for example hitting a threshold or another trigger but we can go down that rabbit hole we can go down in a later article.
lets say you have Linux you can use or create scripts to grab the data regularly and then put it in a database and spit out the stats.