Posts for: #Networking

SNMP monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus and snmp_exporter

SNMP monitoring with grafana and prometheus can be done with the official snmp_exporter from prometheus.
Since I didn’t found any direct forward documentation, blog or any source of documentation in an ELI5 style how this will work, this is my try to document my findings and understanding on how this stuff works. To be honest I still don’t understand all stuff inside the generator configuration file but here is what I found out.

MikroTik SFTP backup script

Automated backups for MikroTik devices can be accomplished by running a scheduled script. The following script can be run in the scheduler in order to automate the backups to an SFTP share. It was tested on a MiroTik hEX RB750Gr3 with RouterOS 7.20.1. Just make sure to adjust the first five variables to your needs. This script is based on another script I found on the forum – here. I adjusted the date settings in the filename since these weren’t working for me.

Configure OPNsense Bridge on a Sophos SG125 V2

I recently purchased two Sophos SG 125 V2s with OPNsense. These have several physical (Layer 3) interfaces, which I would like to combine into a bridge. This allows multiple interfaces to be treated like a switch (Layer 2) and assigned to the same network without having to configure each interface individually.

Sophos has a DMZ, a LAN, an HA, a WAN, and several normal Ethernet ports. I would like to set up the Ethernet ports together as a bridge.