What is the Dude

What is the Dude ?

Quoting one of the e-books

The Dude is a visual and easy to use network monitoring and management system designed to
represent network structure in one or more crosslinked graphical diagrams, allowing you to
draw (includes automatic network discovery tool) and monitor your network whatever
complicated it can be. The Dude is capable of monitoring particular services run on the network
hosts, and alerting you about any changes in their status. It can read statistics from the device
monitored and show you graphs of the monitored values, allows you to test and connect to the
devices easily, and provides some very basic RouterOS configuration tools.
It is written in two parts:


Dude server is the actual program, which runs in background. It does not have any
graphical interface, and may only be controlled by a Dude client application located either
on local machine, or anywhere on the network. There is also a web interface to basic
functionality, mostly designed as a quick and accessible review tool, not a full-fledged
configuration application.
Dude client may connect to the local or a remote Dude server, and is used as a graphical
interface to it. That means that every action is really executed on the server machine and
the client is just showing pictures. Thus, user window layouts are stored on the server and
are not lost on disconnect.