RouterOS Client

This is a client wrapper for node-routeros api for doing common tasks and making the api easier to use for small and large NodeJS projects.

Getting Started

These instructions will help you install and use some of the client features, you can get a complete documentation in the wiki.

Prerequisites

You must be familiar with Promises, how to chain it, how to catch errors and etc.

Installing

You can install by using npm:

npm install routeros-client --save

Note: you are not required to install node-routeros since it's already a dependency of this lib.

Features

Everything you get from the node-routeros is still here, plus:

• You can save the menu and reuse it for multiple operations.
• There is a "Model" feature where you can fire commands on each entry of a menu individually (check the examples).
• Easy to read and write reusable code.

Examples

Here are some short examples of usage, head to the wiki for a complete documentation.

Connecting

const RouterOSClient = require('routeros-client').RouterOSClient;

const api = new RouterOSClient({
    host: "192.168.88.1",
    user: "admin",
    password: "123456"
});

api.connect().then((client) => {
    // After connecting, the promise will return a client class so you can start using it

    // You can either use spaces like the winbox terminal or
    // use the way the api does like "/system/identity", either way is fine
    client.menu("/system identity").getOnly().then((result) => {
        console.log(result.identity); // Mikrotik
        api.close();
    }).catch((err) => {
        console.log(err); // Some error trying to get the identity
    });

}).catch((err) => {
    // Connection error
});

Printing only VLAN interfaces

api.connect().then((client) => {

    client.menu("/interface").where("type", "vlan").get().then((results) => {
        // results is an array of all the vlan interfaces
    }).catch((err) => {
        // error getting interfaces
    });

}).catch((err) => {
    // Connection error
});

Adding and editing a firewall rule

api.connect().then((client) => {

    const filterMenu = client.menu("/ip firewall filter");

    filterMenu.add({
        chain: "forward",
        action: "accept",
        protocol: "tcp",
        dstPort: 80
    }).then((response) => {
        // response should be an object like { ret: "*3C" }
        return filterMenu.where("id", response.ret).update({
            srcAddress: "192.168.88.5"
        });

    }).then((response) => {
        // response should be an empty array [] since, 
        // if there is no error, updates return nothing, meaning success
        api.close();
    }).catch((err) => {
        // error adding or eiditing
    });

}).catch((err) => {
    // Connection error
});

Using the Model

api.connect().then((client) => {

    client.menu("/ip proxy access").getModel().then((results) => {

        // Suppose we want to disable acl #2 on the access list
        results[2].disable(); // this returns a Promise too

        // If we want to remove acl #5
        results[5].remove().then(() => {
            // removed successfully
        }, (err) => {
            // error trying to remove
        });

        // Or if we want to update acl #0
        results[0].update({
            comment: "Updated through Model"
        }).then((result) => {
            // result is the updated version
        }).catch((err) => {
            // error updating
        });

    }).catch((err) => {
        // error getting proxy access list
    });

}).catch((err) => {
    // Connection error
});

Creating a model from an item

api.connect().then((client) => {

    client.menu("/interface").where({ interface: "ether1"}).getOnly().then((result) => {

        const ether1 = client.model(result);

        ether1.update({
            comment: "WAN"
        }).then((updatedEther1) => {
            // Should return an updated version of the ether1,
            // but since it is the same object...
            console.log(ether1 === updatedEther1); // true

            console.log(ether1.comment); // WAN
        }).catch((err) => {
            // error updating
        });

    }).catch((err) => {
        // error getting proxy access list
    });

}).catch((err) => {
    // Connection error
});

Streaming content

api.connect().then((client) => {

    // The stream function returns a Stream object
    // so you are able to pause, resume or stop
    const torch = client.menu("/tool torch")
        .where({interface: "ether1"})
        .stream((err, data, stream) => {
            if (err) return err; // got an error while trying to stream

            console.log(data); // the data from the stream itself

            // Will start the countdown after the 
            // first stream of data is received
            stopTorching(); 
        });

    // Variable to store the timeout
    let finalCountdown;
    const stopTorching = function(){
        // If the timeout wasn't set yet
        if (!finalCountdown) {
            // Start counting 5 seconds to stop the stream
            finalCountdown = setTimeout(() => {
                torch.stop();
            }, 5000);
        }
    };

}).catch((err) => {
    // Connection error
});

Cloning this repo

Note that, if are cloning this repo, you must be familiar with Typescript so you can make your changes.

Running the tests

There aren't that many tests, but in order to run them, I used RouterOS CHR (look for the Cloud Hosted Router if you aren't familiar with it yet) on a virtual machine with 4 interfaces, where the first interface is a bridge of my network card:

Also, the vm gets the 10.62.0.25 ip address, you might want to change that in the test files according to network. The user and password was set to admin and admin respectively.

Run the tests using:

npm test

The testing was created using mocha and chai.

TODO

• Write more tests

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Aluisio Rodrigues Amaral

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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