Device settings
Every field on a device, and what each one changes: kind, role, criticality, collector, port, credential profile, ping and polling.
Updated 10 November 2026
Devices are added and edited in Admin → Devices by owners and admins.
The fields
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name | What you call it. Shown everywhere, and in alerts. |
| Site | Where it is. Every device belongs to a site. |
| Collector | Which collector monitors it. Empty = not monitored. With one collector, new devices get it automatically. |
| Kind | MikroTik RouterOS (read over the API), SNMP (other makes), or Ping only. |
| Role | What it does in your network. It sets how serious an outage of this device is (see below). |
| Criticality | Adjusts that: Critical always makes an outage critical; High makes it at least major; Low makes it at most a warning; Normal leaves the role's. |
| Management IP / host | The address the collector reaches it on. Each address can be used once in your organisation. |
| API / SNMP port | 8728 for the RouterOS API, 8729 with TLS, 161 for SNMP. It follows the kind until you change it. |
| API over TLS (8729) | RouterOS only: use api-ssl (how). |
| Credential profile | Which credentials in the collector's .env it uses. default unless you've set up profiles. |
| Ping it | Ping it every cycle. Leave it on: up and down come from ping. |
| Poll it | Read it over the API or SNMP. Off for ping-only devices. |
| Notes | Anything for your team. |
A device that doesn't answer ping but whose API or SNMP answers is still up when Ping it is off: then the API decides.
Role and outage severity
When devices go down, the most serious one in the outage sets its severity:
| Role | Outage severity |
|---|---|
| Core router | critical |
| Router | major |
| Backhaul | critical |
| Access point | major |
| Switch | major |
| CPE | warning |
| Other | warning |
Criticality then adjusts it per device. A core router or backhaul down is critical; an access point or tower router is major; anything else is a warning, unless you raise its criticality.
Changing a device
Changes reach the collector within a minute; a new address, port or TLS setting makes it reconnect then. A device's history stays when you edit it, and is deleted with the device.