Using Flashfig to bulk upgrade Routerboard devices

Here at Bright WiFi, we go through a LOT of Routerboards, and are proud of our ability to help resellers rapidly deploy new device configurations. When I say a lot.. as of right now we have 1000 hAP units on backorder, with 250~ units waiting to be installed and another 300~ awaiting configuration today. While these are numbers for our own use here in Australia; the system we’ve created was with the intent that anyone should be able to use our platform to achieve similar results.

Because of this, we’ve gone through a number of different revisions to our configuration and deployment process in order to improve the time it takes to get devices ready for installation, as well as ensuring all devices are labeled and we have a record of when they were configured and by whom.

Today I was reading a post on the MikroTik subreddit and saw someone post about configuring multiple devices. One of the hardest parts I’ve struggled with when configuring MikroTik devices in the past has been getting all the units up to the right version before configs can be applied. If this is not done then features or configuration components that aren’t available in the older versions won’t be applied or may prevent the config from loading entirely.