Automation

collinscanada

Hello

I am wondering if there is any tools / documentation out there to automate changes within pfsence?

Example. enable / disable firewall rules, update Alias data, enable disable ports. The pfsence webpage is great if you are sitting at a PC but I find myself needing to update and make changes on the road. Making changes on a small mobile phone is not easy when you need to add ip addresses or click a tiny button.

I would ideally like to create a mobile firendly webpage that can push via snmp or commands via ssh to perform the above mention tasks. Has anybody tried this before?

Chris

stephenw10

Perhaps do some scripting and use the PHP Shell?
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Using_the_PHP_pfSense_Shell

Steve

collinscanada

Interesting… I am going to explore this thanks..

stephenw10

There was an effort to write an Android app to make interaction with the webgui easier on a small screen:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,61416.0.html
Not really ideal though in my opinion. I think most people here would agree that pfSense would be better with greater front-end/back-end separation. At the moment it's difficult to write an alternative gui because so much is tied to the front end code.

Steve