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Use this guide to onboard one MikroTik router as an SDX site. By the end, the router should appear as online in the portal and be ready for management, monitoring, backups, policies, and automation.

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Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:
Run onboarding during a maintenance window if the router is already carrying production traffic. The bootstrap script installs SDX management configuration and may change management-plane behavior.

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Onboard the Router

1

Create the site

Create the logical site that will represent this router in SDX.
  1. Open the SDX portal.
  2. Go to Sites.
  3. Select Add.
  4. Enter a clear site name, such as the location or customer-facing service name.
  5. Save the site.
Use a name your operations team will recognize in alerts and reports. You can add tags and notes after the site is online.
Create a new site in the SDX portal
2

Generate the bootstrap command

Generate the RouterOS command that binds the physical router to the site.
  1. Open the new site.
  2. Select Add Router or the onboarding action shown in the site view.
  3. Select the control plane policy you want SDX to enforce.
  4. Copy the generated bootstrap command.
Bootstrap command generated for a new SDX site
The bootstrap command is site-specific. If you abandon the onboarding attempt or suspect the command was copied incorrectly, generate a fresh command from the portal.
3

Run the command on RouterOS

Execute the command on the target router.
  1. Open the router terminal through WinBox, SSH, or console.
  2. Paste the full bootstrap command.
  3. Press Enter.
  4. Wait for the command to finish before closing the session.
The router connects outbound to Altostrat, adopts into the site, and begins the management relationship used for heartbeats and device jobs.
RouterOS terminal running the SDX bootstrap command
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Verify the site is online

Return to the SDX portal and open the site.Confirm that:
  • The site status changes to online.
  • Last seen updates after the router checks in.
  • Device identity and RouterOS details appear on the site.
  • The site appears in the fleet list and dashboard widgets.
SDX site shown as online after onboarding
If the site does not come online, start with outbound internet reachability, DNS resolution, the full copied command, and outbound access to the management VPN endpoint. See Troubleshooting for a structured checklist.

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Next Steps

After the router is online, do these next:

Review the Site

Learn where SDX shows status, inventory, notes, tags, faults, metrics, and site settings.

Harden Management Access

Review the control plane policy applied during onboarding and create a stricter one if needed.

Create a Backup

Request and review a configuration backup before making larger changes.

Plan Tags

Add useful operational metadata before you build reports and workflows around the site.