Tracking Down Random Reboots on the hAP ax S. In this episode of Bridge Mode, Marc and Tyler Casey of DM Tech get into a challenging discovery that points to a bug on a certain model of MikroTik.
Connecting a Child MikroTik Behind a Parent MikroTik (No Direct Internet Access)
Coming Soon: a custom Notifications Template Engine for the Admiral Dashboard. The core idea is that alert definitions become reusable objects instead of one-off settings. An administrator builds a template once, and any user in the system can subscribe to it. No re-creating the same threshold rule for the twelfth time, and no hunting through a dozen screens to figure out why someone is or isn't getting alerted.
We've been heads-down improving the Subscriber View in Compass WiFi, and this release brings some of the biggest usability upgrades yet.
On a recent episode of Bridge Mode, hosts Marc from Admiral Platform and Tyler from DM-Tech Wireless walked through a strange and potentially serious bug they'd uncovered in RouterOS 7 — one that appears to affect every version they tested, including…
Here are some powerful features and shortcuts to help you get the most out of Admiral: Operations Tip: Spend time setting up your Admin Settings, Tags, and Groups early - it pays huge dividends as your deployment grows! 🔍 Quick…
Blank Backups in Admiral Platform? Your MikroTik SSH Host Key May Be Corrupt If your MikroTik backups are showing up blank in Admiral Platform, one possible cause is a corrupt SSH host key on the MikroTik itself. We recently helped…
Admiral Platform continues to evolve with a focus on making MikroTik and network infrastructure management faster, cleaner, and easier at scale. Over the last few months, we’ve released several improvements across logging, WatchTower, router discovery, Router Health, historical tracking, and…
Over the last year, I’ve noticed something happening more and more often while working on MikroTiks: I go to use a perfectly normal troubleshooting or operations tool — RoMON, Bandwidth Test, Ping Speed, Traffic Generator, maybe even something tied to…
Recently Admiral added support for Dell switch backups in WatchTower, which faced unexpected difficulties. This, however, is not entirely unexpected. As the Admiral team has continued adding support for different devices, we’ve found plenty of situations where devices don’t necessarily…
If you host services from a home or small office connection, there’s a good chance your ISP gave you a dynamic public IP instead of a static one—which can make custom domains feel frustratingly unreliable. In this Case Study, we’ll…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiKrWahs5pY Bridge Mode is where we get real with real-world operators—no vendor fluff, no theory-only takes—just the deployments, decisions, and lessons learned in production networks. In this episode, MikroTik Marc sits down with Tyler Casey from DMTech to unpack two…
We've recently shipped two features that make it significantly easier to monitor fleet health and troubleshoot issues across your deployment. Uptime Report You'll now find a dedicated Uptime Report under Reports > Uptime Report. This page gives you a clear picture…
One of our recent on-premise Admiral customers told us something we hear a lot: Admiral is incredible at centralizing the health and status of hundreds of MikroTik routers and switches—but he wished he had the same visibility, alerts, and notifications…
The Admiral Platform team is headed to ISP America 2026 in Atlanta, GA (March 2–5)—and we’d love to see you there. Stop by Booth #125 to get a hands-on look at what’s new in Admiral, including: Centralized MikroTik management built for ISPs and MSPs Automated speed…
Faster, more reliable backups for even the largest RouterOS configurations. Managing network infrastructure means managing configurations—and when those configurations grow large, backing them up reliably becomes a real challenge. Our development team recently tackled this head-on, and we're excited to…
NETWORK ENGINEER TIP As part of building the VXLAN class, one of our engineers put together a useful helper script to streamline the process. It’s worth noting that this script is intended for transport links that use a /29 addressing scheme…
NETWORK ENGINEERING GUIDE A comprehensive guide to selecting the right MikroTik switches and routers for hardware-accelerated VXLAN deployments—from budget lab setups to terabit-scale ISP cores. One of the greatest strengths of MikroTik routers, switches, and access points is that nearly…
Script Commander, is a new feature on Admiral Platform designed to give you better control over your MikroTik network — without the manual headaches. When managing dozens, hundreds, or thousands of MikroTiks, repetitive tasks like VLAN changes, firewall updates, DHCP…
When Networks Fail — It’s Rarely the Hardware Your routers aren’t broken — your design is.Most network failures in MikroTik environments trace back to misconfigurations at the architecture level: MTU mismatches, OSPF errors and misconfigurations, and missing redundancy. At Admiral, we’ve seen this…