Documentation

How to get MikroTik Manager running, how to point it at your first router, and what to do when something does not look right.

Step 1

Installation

Docker, Docker Compose, or as a MikroTik Container App on RouterOS. Environment variables, updating, HTTPS.

Step 2

Getting Started

From your first login to your first device: sites, the RouterOS account to create, and which connection method to pick.

Step 3

Dashboard and Sites

What each status tile counts, why offline and not accessible are different faults, stale rows, the task tray, and what a site is actually for.

Step 4

Users and Access

The four roles, per-site scope, two-factor authentication and passkeys, and how to recover a locked-out account.

Day to day

The Device Page

A tour of one router: traffic history and SFP optics, the DHCP pool bar, the PoE budget, LTE and SMS, BGP history — and why a tab is missing.

Day to day

VLAN Editor

Describing VLANs and port roles on a live switch: the three hardware schemes, the preview, and the rollback the device runs on its own if you do not confirm.

Day to day

Commands and Templates

Running one command on forty routers, picking targets by tag, per-run credentials, and templates that either execute or install as a script.

Day to day

Upgrades

Checking RouterOS and firmware, the four actions, and the sequential queue that upgrades powered devices before the switch feeding them.

Day to day

Backups

What a backup is here, completeness checks, three levels of schedule inheritance — and why there is no restore button.

Day to day

Logs

The built-in syslog receiver on port 5514, what to configure on the router, and how a message is matched to its device.

Day to day

Topology

How the map is built from neighbour discovery, what the dashed nodes are, and what to check when a site shows no links.

Day to day

Webhooks

The fifteen events, the four body formats, scoping to sites or tags, and holding an offline alert until a flap has settled.

Day to day

Security

CVE matching against the NVD feed, patch gaps read from MikroTik's own changelogs, syslog-driven auto-blocking, and the GeoIP rule generator.

Admin

Administration

Scanning a range for routers, the audit trail and what lands in it, and how a setting resolves between an environment variable, the database and the default.

When stuck

Troubleshooting

What the status badges actually mean, reverse proxy and WebSocket, certificates, and why a tab is empty.

What this covers

These pages are about operating MikroTik Manager: getting it talking to your routers, and understanding what it tells you. They are not a RouterOS tutorial — where RouterOS itself is the subject, the authority is manual.mikrotik.com, and this documentation links there rather than paraphrasing it.

Everything here is checked against the shipped version. If a page contradicts what you see in the interface, the interface is right and the page is a bug worth reporting.

Reference material

Material that lives elsewhere and is not repeated here: