Menu types and their properties

[luqasz]

Mikrotik has various menu level types:

• unordered with unique key value (/queue/simple value of 'name')
• unordered with duplicates (/ip/firewall/address-list)
• ordered without unique key value (/ip/firewall/filter, /routing/filter)
• single (/system/ntp/client)
• may depend on packages (dhcp-server,dhcp-client depends on dhcp package)

Properties:

• some have default entries (best would be to disable them if possible)
• some entries are not removable (with default flag, but not necesary)
• some menus have dynamic entries. those will not be managed
• various modification order (ADD,DELETE,SET)
• attribute values may change in routeros releases (/user/group policy=api only in versions 5.x and above)
• some attribute values may be split in order to ease comparison (/user/group policy= split by ',')
• some may need aditional arguments to 'print' (/interface/wireless needs advanced=true to get all attributes)

To check:

• entries that are not default and can not be removed. (/user/group ?)
• entries that are default and can not be disabled (/routing/bfd/interface interface=all)