Build a Hotspot Management App with Mikrotik Router OS API

Learn to build a Hotspot Management Application using Laravel and Mikrotik Router OS API
What you'll learn
Learn of to do the physical set up of your Mikrotik Routerboard
Learn the basic mikrotik router configurations to access the internet
Learn and understand the hotspot setup on the WLAN interface of the mikrotik router to access the internet through hotspot
Learn and understand the installation of user-manager package and setup of radius server for authenticating hotspot users
Set up a new Larave application and install requires packages for interacting with the API interface of the Mikrotik router
Learn how to connect to the mikrotik router OS through API interface
Understand the Miktorik router OS basic API commands and how to interact with mikrotik router using the API interface
Learn how to send queries to the mikrotik router and how to process the response through API interface from a Laravel application
Setup user authentication module of the laravel application
Learn how to register users using the IP address and the mac address of the device
Learn how to interact with Mikrotik router using the Userman user interface to create customers and users
Learn how to add users to the user-manager database of the mikrotik router using the API interface
Learn how to activate users added to the Mikrotik router so that they can access the internet
Automatically generate the username and password for the users registered in to our application for logging into the hotspot
Learn about walled garden and walled garden IP to know how to allow a few websites and ports to access internet before the user is logged in to the hotspot
Test the application to authenticate users to login to the hotspot
Requirements
Programming experience in PHP Laravel Needed(At least the beginner level) I don't explain a lot of laravel basics
You must have PHP development environement setup, even though I explain a little-bit of how to do that
You must have a mikrotik router board running the OS version that works with API(I use RB 951UI) mikrotik router
Description
Wireless internet service provider software is one of the most expensive software that is also in high demand. However, most network engineers are not software developers and they shy away from programming. In the current world, there is always a need to automate things. In this course, you will learn how to build the application to automatically manage your hotspot users so that they have to register and a username and password will automatically be generated for them to be able to login into the hotspot. This course will give a glimpse of how the wireless internet service provider works and this can enable you to develop your own software if you would like to automatically manage your hotspot users using the Mikrotik API. Mikrotik API made it simple for developers to be able to work with the router os for automation.
The information about Mikrotik OS and API is very scarce on the internet and this makes it hard for the beginners working with or who would like to work with MikroTik API.
What we will cover in this course
The physical configuration of the Mikrotik router
Installation of Winbox software from Mikrotik to be able to configure our router
The basic configuration of our router to access the internet
Installation of a new Laravel application
Installation of packages required for interacting with router OS API interface and then we will go-ahead to build our application
Who this course is for
Laravel/PHP Developers who would like to know how to interact with Mikrotik OS API
Laravel/PHP developers who would like to know how to develop a Wireless Internet Service Provider software to automatically manage users
Homepage
https://www.udemy.com/course/build-a-hotspot-management-app-with-mikrotik-router-os-api/