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    [SOLVED] How to installing bpytop (former Bashtop) and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Both tools look useful. Bashtop is mostly realtime, or close to it, Munin looks to be about logging histirical changes. I can imagine using both.

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      • Sergei_ShablovskyS
        Sergei_Shablovsky @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 said in How to installing Bashtop and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

        Both tools look useful. Bashtop is mostly realtime, or close to it, Munin looks to be about logging histirical changes. I can imagine using both.

        As I note before, I just need to extend this cheap menu because it not useful nowadays:

        • quick initializing action (setup WANs and LANs interfaces quickly) when installing pfSense Bare Metal, or reinstalling after hardware failure;
        • be able to doing some base network measurement (ping, trace, iperf) just on local console, when the technician are physically near the hardware in DC;
        • have on local VGA/rs232/usb console REALTIME system health state (because when hardware failure, the System Management Module with watchdogs save all sensors data records and a screenshot into separate memory for future analyses (with other health records) the source of hardware problem;

        Only servers has this System Managemet Module (I am sure about IBM, Dell, HP, and even some of Supermicro servers both Enterprise and Entry Level models), ordinary “home PC” - no.

        The constantly health monitoring better to doing by separate tools, we prefer Splunk (agent-based system, for overall and detailed) and LibreNMS for detailed net flow (but also able overall, SMNP-based system). Here some examples of LibreNMS

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        So, the conclusion are: You are right, for serious Monitoring, professional SysAdmin need both local Monitoring tool constant remote metrics collection system.

        All this “story with the rewriting the cheap Main Menu” just for ability to make first part - local overall health monitoring tool and several tool for base network testing

        Reasonably?

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        • Sergei_ShablovskyS
          Sergei_Shablovsky @Gertjan
          last edited by Sergei_Shablovsky

          @Gertjan said in How to installing Bashtop and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

          @Sergei_Shablovsky :

          A screen that shows the status of a lot of parameters.
          Good.
          But what happens when the system goes down ? Where is the screen ? Are you really want to look at the screen 24/24h to detect if something is about to go go bad, or something needs attention ?

          Most of servers from reputable brands (I am sure of IBM, Dell, HP) have internal built in Server Health Monitoring PCB/chip, and common function are constantly saving logs and screenshot before hardware crash/unattended restart in separate nonvioation memory, sending alerts by sms/email.

          No one sitting behind the server after hi placed in DC or separate server room.

          Real admins automatize.

          Means years ago I installed this on pfSense : Munin.

          When my system goes down, I can actually see what happened after box died - or when the symptoms started. Munin even mails me when something goes off-scale.

          Munin give You symptoms, but not picture what happened in real-time, and also have some delay between issue and you receive the alert by sms/email.

          The same but **much more detailed and tunable statistic and analyse with filters and ton of plugins” give You the Splunk system. Worth to take a closer look.

          And I can see the info no matter where I am ^^

          And a whole word with a hackers also. What about security ? No one bank, finance structure, law structure (even a small company) agree with this data open to all worldwide.

          Simple perl/bash/sh/php/whatever scripts can be added t add more charts.

          Munin is part of the base FreeBSD and present in the pfSense repo - at least, is was so in the past.
          It needs to be set up manually, as no GUI part exists.

          Btw : other - better ? tools (might) exist. But hey, as you already said : we stick with what we (think !) we know.

          This our human habits mostly play a negative role in also fast running and changing IT-world. Especially when we speak about security and a Firewalling.

          edit : the main security issue is that the centralized Munin client - the site where I host all the charts of all my devices, connects every 5 minutes to a TCP port 4949 of my pfSense.
          A WAN firewall rule accepts incoming TCP 4949 connections from one IP only : the IP from my munin client.
          Also : most of the scripts used don't run with admin or root rights, they can only 'read'.

          Thank You for a suggestion. ;) May be usable for someone who read this thread and decide to setup Munin.

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          • Sergei_ShablovskyS
            Sergei_Shablovsky @Gertjan
            last edited by Sergei_Shablovsky

            @Gertjan said in How to installing Bashtop and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

            As for myself : up until know, I didn't even know what bashtop was ...

            I told You more: zsh and fish shells able to impress You if You work in command line.

            And Bashtop, Pingtop, Hegemon, Gotop, htop, Gping, Vping, also able to give a You a little help if a You have a servers without (or just not need and prefer going to each server by ssh manually for maintenance) agent-server monitoring system like Netdata, LibreNMS, or Splunk.

            But another one time:
            all this tools is not for ordinary home using, only if You need 24/7 running service and clients and have an obligation.

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            • Sergei_ShablovskyS
              Sergei_Shablovsky @kiokoman
              last edited by Sergei_Shablovsky

              @kiokoman said in How to installing Bashtop and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

              2.5.0

              pkg install bash
              pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/gsed-4.8.txz
              pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/coreutils-8.32.txz
              pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/py37-psutil-5.7.3.txz
              pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/bashtop-0.9.25_1.txz
              ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.7 /bin/python3
              /usr/local/bin/bashtop
              

              On a follow system:

              2.5.0-RC (amd64) 
              built on Wed Feb 10 09:40:34 EST 2021 
              FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE
              

              The are next error:

              Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
              pkg: https://packages-beta.netgate.com/packages/pfSense_master_amd64-core/meta.txz: No address record
              repository pfSense-core has no meta file, using default settings
              pkg: https://packages-beta.netgate.com/packages/pfSense_master_amd64-core/packagesite.txz: No address record
              Unable to update repository pfSense-core
              Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
              pkg: https://packages-beta.netgate.com/packages/pfSense_master_amd64-pfSense_devel/meta.txz: No address record
              repository pfSense has no meta file, using default settings
              pkg: https://packages-beta.netgate.com/packages/pfSense_master_amd64-pfSense_devel/packagesite.txz: No address record
              Unable to update repository pfSense
              Error updating repositories!
              

              Soooo... How to install bashop now ? :)

              Thank You for Your time and patience!

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              • GertjanG
                Gertjan @Sergei_Shablovsky
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                @sergei_shablovsky said in How to installing Bashtop and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

                Error updating repositories!

                Before calling it a day, yesterday, I saw some posts signalling that the "repository " was out of order.
                Probably some product name changes or big updates or ahead.
                At least, in the "2.5.0" tree.
                Btw : me just thinking here. The 2.4.5-p1 tree seems fine.

                No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                • kiokomanK
                  kiokoman LAYER 8 @Gertjan
                  last edited by

                  @Sergei_Shablovsky
                  my 2 cent, they are probably moving 2.5.0 out of beta ...

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                  we must focus on silencing this @guest character. we must make up lies and alter the copyrights !
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                  • GertjanG
                    Gertjan @kiokoman
                    last edited by

                    Yeah, I'm also afraid that that's what's coming up.

                    The 'when is it ready ?' public will get transformed in the 'help a problem' group.
                    The calm and all goes well period comes to an end.

                    No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                    Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                    • Sergei_ShablovskyS
                      Sergei_Shablovsky @Gertjan
                      last edited by Sergei_Shablovsky

                      @gertjan said in How to installing Bashtop and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

                      @sergei_shablovsky said in How to installing Bashtop and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

                      Error updating repositories!

                      Before calling it a day, yesterday, I saw some posts signalling that the "repository " was out of order.
                      Probably some product name changes or big updates or ahead.
                      At least, in the "2.5.0" tree.
                      Btw : me just thinking here. The 2.4.5-p1 tree seems fine.

                      Is any other way to install bpytop manually ?

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                      • GertjanG
                        Gertjan @Sergei_Shablovsky
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                        @sergei_shablovsky Is that a package in the 'github' pfSense repository ?
                        Here https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports ?

                        Installing manually packages on a must-always-be-connected-to-the-net-router is ...... awkward.

                        From higher levels (Netgate), very recently - on this forum - the advise was : don't.

                        You are using 2.5.0. : isn't it time to go vanilla ? Or prepare yourself for a re install. (not the moment to try try things out .....)

                        Btw : its doesn't exist for 2.4.5-p1 :

                        [2.4.5-RELEASE][root@pfsense.core2-wall.localnet]/root: pkg install bpytop
                        Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
                        pfSense-core repository is up to date.
                        Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
                        pfSense repository is up to date.
                        All repositories are up to date.
                        Updating database digests format: 100%
                        pkg: No packages available to install matching 'bpytop' have been found in the repositories
                        

                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                        • kiokomanK
                          kiokoman LAYER 8 @Gertjan
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                          ahh @Sergei_Shablovsky, you need to be more creative ! 😁

                          pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/py37-psutil-5.8.0.txz
                          pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/bpytop-1.0.61.txz
                          

                          open a ticket and ask jimp to add it if you like bpy that much, i don't think he will bite you.. maybe ...

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                          • GertjanG
                            Gertjan @kiokoman
                            last edited by Gertjan

                            @kiokoman said in How to installing bpytop (former Bashtop) and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

                            i don't think he will bite you.. maybe ...

                            You said it yourself : we entered an exceptional moment.

                            ( !!!! Just one left !!!! (February 11, 2021 - 4:38 pm UTC )

                            edit : oops : this is the son of a b****** bug, with 5 years of history.

                            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              You are set to pull from master still which is now 2.6.
                              Set your update repo to 2.5.0 RC and you should see something like:

                              [2.5.0-RC][admin@25dev.stevew.lan]/root: pkg -d update
                              DBG(1)[11583]> pkg initialized
                              Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
                              DBG(1)[11583]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense-core
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/root/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense-core.sqlite'
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Request to fetch pkg+https://packages.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_5_0_amd64-core/meta.conf
                              DBG(1)[11583]> opening libfetch fetcher
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch: fetching from: https://files01.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_5_0_amd64-core/meta.conf with opts "i"
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Request to fetch pkg+https://packages.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_5_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz
                              DBG(1)[11583]> opening libfetch fetcher
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch: fetching from: https://files01.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_5_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz with opts "i"
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
                              pfSense-core repository is up to date.
                              Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
                              DBG(1)[11583]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/root/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense.sqlite'
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Request to fetch pkg+https://packages.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_5_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_5_0/meta.conf
                              DBG(1)[11583]> opening libfetch fetcher
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch: fetching from: https://files00.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_5_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_5_0/meta.conf with opts "i"
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Request to fetch pkg+https://packages.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_5_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_5_0/packagesite.txz
                              DBG(1)[11583]> opening libfetch fetcher
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch: fetching from: https://files00.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_5_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_5_0/packagesite.txz with opts "i"
                              DBG(1)[11583]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
                              pfSense repository is up to date.
                              All repositories are up to date.
                              

                              Steve

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                              • Sergei_ShablovskyS
                                Sergei_Shablovsky @kiokoman
                                last edited by

                                @kiokoman said in How to installing bpytop (former Bashtop) and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

                                ahh @Sergei_Shablovsky, you need to be more creative ! 😁

                                pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/py37-psutil-5.8.0.txz
                                pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/bpytop-1.0.61.txz
                                

                                open a ticket and ask jimp to add it if you like bpy that much, i don't think he will bite you.. maybe ...

                                I still thinking that bpytop are so informative and flexible comparing to native pfSense top/pftop, so may be jimp would be agree to include it as standard tool for on-screen Monitoring....

                                P.S. The same for Gping/vping, but on 3 month ago they are not available for FreeBSD. Sad but true...

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                  Did you open a feature request yet? https://redmine.pfsense.org/

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                                  • Sergei_ShablovskyS
                                    Sergei_Shablovsky @stephenw10
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                                    @stephenw10 said in How to installing bpytop (former Bashtop) and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

                                    Did you open a feature request yet? https://redmine.pfsense.org/

                                    Right now no. But I would be happy when You doing this (for example)... :)

                                    Due You have a much more valuable reputation in community :)

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                                      Sergei_Shablovsky @stephenw10
                                      last edited by Sergei_Shablovsky

                                      @stephenw10 said in How to installing bpytop (former Bashtop) and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

                                      Did you open a feature request yet? https://redmine.pfsense.org/

                                      Already done

                                      Please upvote / assist to make this happened.

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                                        last edited by Sergei_Shablovsky

                                        UPDATE

                                        on
                                        Version 2.6.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
                                        built on Sun Jul 25 01:08:17 ED

                                        pkg install bash
                                        
                                        pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/gsed-4.8.txz
                                        pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/coreutils-8.32.txz
                                        pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/py38-psutil-5.8.0.txz
                                        pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/bpytop-1.0.67.txz
                                        
                                        ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.8 /bin/python3
                                        /usr/local/bin/bpytop
                                        

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                                          Sergei_Shablovsky @Gertjan
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                                          @gertjan said in How to installing bpytop (former Bashtop) and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

                                          You could 'diff' between the original files, and your files, and have this diff merged automatically during startup or even update (I use the 'Patches' package from pfSense).

                                          Could You be so please explain on an example (for /etc/rc.initial) how to make this according this topic.

                                          To save my time a little bit. ;) Anyway, a little bit later I try to study how to using the Patches. I found that official pfSense doc from NetGate have no such info and examples...

                                          I would be thankful for Yoyr time and efforts about helping people’s here on forum! Thank You again one time!

                                          But what if Netgate decided to fundamentally change the /etc/rc.initial file in the next version ? The merge won't work out. Your back to manual again.

                                          As I able to see, nothing much changed (just nothing) in last 3 year.

                                          Anyway, I make all system updates in manual mode, to look precisely on each changes.

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                                            Sergei_Shablovsky @Gertjan
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                                            @gertjan said in How to installing bpytop (former Bashtop) and adding it to Main Menu (menu in Console)?:

                                            edit : the main security issue is that the centralized Munin client - the site where I host all the charts of all my devices, connects every 5 minutes to a TCP port 4949 of my pfSense.
                                            A WAN firewall rule accepts incoming TCP 4949 connections from one IP only : the IP from my munin client.

                                            Let’s to note, better not to exposing ports to outside, and SSH keys are so easy to brute force nowadays on powerful i7/i9 or NVidia cards.
                                            As minimal, using OpenVPN / WireGuard + port knock + limit to x connection in y time.

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