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Identity

Setting the System's Identity provides a unique identifying name for when the system identifies itself to other routers in the network and when accessing services such as DHCP, Neighbour Discovery, and default wireless SSID. The default system Identity is set to 'MikroTik'.

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System Identity has a maximum character length of 64

Configuration​

To set system identity in RouterOS:

[admin@MikroTik] > /system/identity/set name=New_Identity 
[admin@New_Identity] >

The current System Identity is always displayed after the logged-in account name and with the print command:

[admin@New_Identity] /system/identity>print
name: New_Identity
[admin@New_Identity] /system/identity>

SNMP​

It is also possible to change the router system identity by an SNMP set command:

snmpset -c public -v 1 192.168.0.0 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0 s New_Identity

snmpset - Linux-based SNMP application used for SNMP SET requests to set information on a network entity;

  • public - router's community name;
  • 192.168.0.0 - IP address of the router;
  • 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0 - SNMP value for router's identity;