Once you've got more than two or three MikroTik access points, configuring each one's wireless settings by hand doesn't scale — and it doesn't stay in sync either. A password rotation or SSID change means logging into every AP individually, and it's only a matter of time before one of them drifts from the rest. CAPsMAN (Controller Access Point system Manager) centralizes that configuration on one controller.
Enable the CAPsMAN manager on the controller
This can be a dedicated router or one of the APs itself:
/caps-man manager set enabled=yesCreate a wireless configuration
This is the SSID and mode every managed AP will use:
/caps-man configuration add name=cfg1 ssid=MyWifi mode=apSet up provisioning so new APs join automatically
Instead of assigning the configuration to each AP by hand, provisioning rules apply it automatically to any AP that registers with the manager:
/caps-man provisioning add action=create-dynamic-enabled master-configuration=cfg1Point each access point (CAP) at the manager
On each AP that should be managed, enable CAP mode and tell it which interface to discover the manager through:
/interface wireless cap set enabled=yes interfaces=wlan1 discovery-interfaces=ether2It registers with the controller automatically and picks up the provisioned configuration — no manual SSID setup on that AP at all.
Why do it this way
This is classic CAPsMAN, part of the older wireless package — newer RouterOS versions on wifiwave2-capable hardware have a separate centralized management mechanism under different command names, so check which wireless driver your APs are running before assuming these exact commands apply. Either way, the underlying reason to centralize is the same: changing the SSID or password once, in one place, and having it propagate automatically avoids the classic failure mode of ten APs slowly drifting into ten slightly different configurations that nobody remembers changing.
How MoniTik helps
CAPsMAN centralizes configuration; MoniTik centralizes visibility for the same fleet — one dashboard showing the status of every AP instead of checking each one individually the way you'd have had to configure them before CAPsMAN existed. If an AP drops off or starts misbehaving, MoniTik alerts you to that specific device instead of you discovering it through a coverage complaint.
Santiago spends his days on rooftops and in racks, keeping MikroTik links online for local ISPs.