Introduction

WebFig is a web-based RouterOS utility that allows you to monitor, configure and troubleshoot the router. It is designed as an alternative of WinBox, both have similar layouts and both have access to almost any feature of RouterOS.

As Webfig is platform-independent, it can be used to configure a router directly from various devices without the need for software developed for specific platforms. In other words, there is no need to install additional software.

WebFig allows performing three basic actions:

• Configuration - view and edit current configuration;
• Monitoring - display the current status of the router, routing information, interface stats, logs, etc;
• Troubleshooting - RouterOS has built-in many troubleshooting tools (like ping, traceroute, packet sniffers, traffic generators, etc) and all of them can be used with WebFig

Connectin to a Router

As we already know from the First Time Configuration section, the device by default has username admin and no password configured. Simply open a Web browser and in the search bar type device IP address which by default is 192.168.88.1. Be sure your device has IP address from the same network, for example, 192.168.88.2 otherwise Layer3 communication will not work.

In our example, we will use IP address 10.155.126.250 to connect to the device via WebFig.