Manual:Tools/Fetch

Applies to RouterOS: v3, v4 +

Summary

Sub-menu: /tool fetch
Standards:

Fetch is one of the console tools in Mikrotik RouterOS. It is used to copy files from the network device to a Mikrotik.

Properties

Property	Description
address(string; Default: )	IP address of the device to copy from.
ascii(yes | no; Default: )
dst-path(string; Default: )	Title of the input file and file path.
host(string; Default: )	Domain name or virtual domain name (if used on web-site, from which you want to copy information). For example, address=wiki.mikrotik.com host=forum.mikrotik.com In this example the resolved ip address is the same (66.228.113.27), but hosts are different.
keep-result(yes|no; Default: yes)	If yes, creates an input file.
mode(ftp|http|tftp; Default: http)	Choose the protocol of connection - http, ftp or tftp.
user(string; Default: )	User name, which is needed to login the remote device.
password(string; Default: )	Password, which is needed to login the remote device.
port(integer; Default: )	Connection port.
src-path(string; Default: )	Title of the remote file you need to copy.
url(string; Default: )	URL pointing to file. Can be used instead of address and src-path parameters

The following example shows how to copy the file with filename "conf.rsc" from device with ip address 192.168.88.2 by FTP protocol and save it as file with filename "123.rsc". User and password are needed to login into the device.

[admin@mt-test] /tool> fetch address=192.168.88.2 src-path=conf.rsc \
user=admin mode=ftp password=123 dst-path=123.rsc port=21 \
host="" keep-result=yes

Another example that demonstrates the usage of url property.

[admin@test_host] /> /tool fetch url="http://www.mikrotik.com/img/netaddresses2.pdf" mode=http 
  status: finished

[admin@test_host] /> /file print 
 # NAME                     TYPE                  SIZE                 CREATION-TIME       
 ...
 5 netaddresses2.pdf        .pdf file             11547                jun/01/2010 11:59:51

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