{"id":5928,"date":"2025-01-24T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2025-01-24T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:09:02","slug":"checking-uptime-and-routeros-version-on-mikrotik-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/checking-uptime-and-routeros-version-on-mikrotik-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Check the Uptime and RouterOS version on the Mikrotik Command Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Check uptime and RouterOS version<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system uptime is displayed in the system resources output.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-dark-gray-background-color has-background\"><code class=\"\">\/system\/resource\/print<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Example Output:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-dark-gray-background-color has-background\"><code class=\"\">                   uptime: 1w2d10h2m52s        &lt;-- Uptime\n                  version: 7.17 (stable)       &lt;-- RouterOS version\n               build-time: 2025-01-10 11:30:08\n              free-memory: 21.1MiB\n             total-memory: 64.0MiB\n                      cpu: MIPS 24Kc V7.4\n                cpu-count: 1\n            cpu-frequency: 400MHz\n                 cpu-load: 16%\n           free-hdd-space: 45.2MiB\n          total-hdd-space: 64.0MiB\n  write-sect-since-reboot: 631\n         write-sect-total: 486250\n               bad-blocks: 0%\n        architecture-name: mipsbe\n               board-name: RB750GL\n                 platform: MikroTik<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Check RouterOS Firmware version<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can check the firmware version by running the following command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-dark-gray-background-color has-background\"><code class=\"\">\/system\/routerboard\/print<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Example output:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-dark-gray-background-color has-background\"><code class=\"\">       routerboard: yes\n             model: RB750GL\n     serial-number: XXXXXXXXXXXX\n     firmware-type: ar7240\n  factory-firmware: 3.29\n  current-firmware: 7.17\n  upgrade-firmware: 7.17<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If there is a line that says <code>;;; Firmware upgraded successfully, please reboot for changes to take effect!<\/code>, then the firmware has been updated at some point and the router needs a reboot to apply it. Remember you need to update both the RouterOS version and the firmware version when upgrading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check uptime and RouterOS version The system uptime is displayed in the system resources output. Example Output: Check RouterOS Firmware version We can check the firmware version by running the following command. Example output: If there is a line that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/checking-uptime-and-routeros-version-on-mikrotik-command-line\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452],"tags":[364,301,388,469,762],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikrotik","tag-firmware","tag-mikrotik","tag-routeros","tag-uptime","tag-version"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5933,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions\/5933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}