With over 400 locations across Europe, managing our network devices has become a big endeavor. In order to be more efficient on this challenge the Corporate IT Network Team recently implemented Unimus.

Unimus does network automation, configuration backups, change management, updates and enables automation for all the processes. This also benefits the engineers not to work late hours or on weekends.

To provide an example, here is a quick overview of how we upgrade our MikroTik routers using Unimus, which are located at our Autohero workshops all over Europe:

1. On the Unimus platform we add each device with the devices IP and Credentials.
2. From “Schedules” we configure the time and date for the desired upgrade.
3. After adding all devices of the same model to Unimus, we go to the “Mass Configuration Push” menu. Templates and configurations for the upgrade need to be prepared. 4. From here we also add a Mikrotik Script to download the latest update, add the schedule for this push and select the target devices.
5. Lastly we add a second command to issue the upgrade and reboot the device. 6. All that’s left to be done is to add a corresponding downtime in our monitoring tool (CheckMK) and wait for the magic to happen.