Mikrotik DHCP Option 43 Tutorial

Step by step instructions to get DHCP Option 43 working on Mikrotik RouterOS 6.x

Many consumer devices allow you to pass configuration parameters like auto provisioning servers and such via dhcp. DHCP option 43 is used by Yealink, Ubiquiti and Ruckus as well as many others.

My need was to use it to send the address of the provisioning server to a number of Yealink T23G IP phones to make deployment easier.

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Ubiquiti Airos 5.6 CPE on Cacti

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A NEW VERSION AT:
http://www.binaryheartbeat.net/2015/08/ubiquiti-airos-56-cacti-templates.html

Ubiquiti has created a new MIB definition to go with the new version of AirOS.  I made myself some new templates to monitor 5.6 version AirOS devices, I will try to update the templates when the 5.6 goes final.

I am working with Cacti version 0.8.7i since that is the current version available to apt-get install on Ubuntu 12.04.

Client Signal - Polled From AP

AP CPU Uage

AP Station Count

AP Uptime

Client Connection Details - Polled from AP

Client Connection Details - Polled from Client

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