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      Seth
      last edited by

      I see your point on my post.

      Yes I would like to email graphs to myself to keep an eye on my firewalls.

      Yes (should be in a new post) return the ability to specify date/time range to specify a given report.  Pre defined ranges are good, but would like to be able to zoom in on a trouble time frame.

      –Seth

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        For most items, using a proper NMS that supports reporting would be best. The mail reports package was always a bit of a kludge in that regard.

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          Seth
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          This is where I struggle with a suggestion for a separate solution in this case to monitor the firewall and its connectivity for a home network.  Your right of course to suggest NMS for a medium to enterprise implementation, but in my case and many others its overkill.

          –Seth

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            A new version of mail reports is up now with the graphs removed.

            I wonder if, with some work after 2.3-REL, it might be possible to embed the js/html/data for the d3 graphs into an HTML e-mail section. If the mail client was advanced enough, or a webmail client in a browser, it might work.

            I tried e-mailing a saved copy of the page and it didn't work well, though that was also after the browser had its way with it.

            Some food for thought for later down the line.

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            • jdillardJ
              jdillard
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              @jimp:

              A new version of mail reports is up now with the graphs removed.

              I wonder if, with some work after 2.3-REL, it might be possible to embed the js/html/data for the d3 graphs into an HTML e-mail section. If the mail client was advanced enough, or a webmail client in a browser, it might work.

              I tried e-mailing a saved copy of the page and it didn't work well, though that was also after the browser had its way with it.

              Some food for thought for later down the line.

              Email doesn't allow SVG or Javascript, and has a conservative markup. You would have to install a headless browser (PhantomJS) to generate and screenshot the graphs in order to insert the graph (now image) into an email. Not sure if you want that as a dependancy.

              http://blog.parsely.com/post/46/whatever-it-takes/

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                I actually did get a (too small, cut off) visual graph and the data grid in the e-mail but that was after saving it from the browser. I have to wonder what would have happened if it was the raw source, though.

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                  jdillard
                  last edited by

                  Interesting. HTML emails are anything but fun to get working properly.

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                    Seth
                    last edited by

                    Thank you guys for having a go at this.  No promises I know.

                    I struggle at times conveying a message without being difficult and getting the founders/devs hairs to stand up on the back of their necks.

                    –Seth

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      @Seth:

                      Thank you guys for having a go at this.  No promises I know.

                      I struggle at times conveying a message without being difficult and getting the founders/devs hairs to stand up on the back of their necks.

                      No worries!

                      It would be nice to retain but to keep the graph option in RRD means bringing in a giant amount of space consumed by extra dependencies including some X libraries which we'd rather avoid, thus the move to D3.

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                      • jdillardJ
                        jdillard
                        last edited by

                        No worries Seth! It sucks to kill a piece of functionality without a solid replacement, but as JimP said we wanted to avoid some of those new dependancies. There may be some break though that makes it easier than we thought to bring them back.

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                        • luckman212L
                          luckman212 LAYER 8
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                          Can anyone recommend a lightweight NMS tool that works well with pfSense?  I assume to replicate the functionality of the RRD history graphs, it would need to poll for SNMP data (is the latency data for dpinger even queryable via SNMP?)

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                            grandrivers
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                            i have looked at some NMS systems could run it on a linux box that i have some ubiquiti software running on just haven't had any luck making my mind up

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                              athurdent
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                              Though not really lightweight, take a look a Zabbix. Easy to install on Ubuntu/Debian and not that hard to setup.

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                                heper
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                                i've used openNMS in the past. haven't tried it on 2.3

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