New User to pfSense - some doubts

johnpoz

@HansSolo said in New User to pfSense - some doubts:

Care to share that code?

Dude you can use any snmp monitoring you want, or use one of the agents that are supported.. Or even ones that are not - you can install netdata on pfsense if you want..

HansSolo

@johnpoz said in New User to pfSense - some doubts:

@HansSolo said in New User to pfSense - some doubts:

Care to share that code?

Dude you can use any snmp monitoring you want, or use one of the agents that are supported.. Or even ones that are not - you can install netdata on pfsense if you want..

Yeah, but dude, I like the one Conor posted ;-)

johnpoz

Well he stated he created a "package" if he wanted to give back to the community he should get it actually on the package list.

He didn't mention what management system he is using... What management system are you using? If all you want is a little widget on your desktop showing stats from firewall via snmp that is quite easy to whip together.

conor

@johnpoz said in New User to pfSense - some doubts:

Well he stated he created a "package" if he wanted to give back to the community he should get it actually on the package list.

The package is hosted in our own pkg repo as it contains a number of specific data capturing functions for our company that we need, also it expects to see a vpn back to us. So in short can't just list that package. However we could extract parts and package that up and get it listed.

johnpoz

He seems to want just a blinking light ;)

There are a billion ways to monitor your systems.. If all you want to see is that pfsense is doing something simple ssh to it and run either iftop or trafshow, etc..

Here this took all of 2 seconds to bring up, and have a little window on my desktop monitor traffic flows on pfsense

Or just fire up some simple snmp widget if you want to see a graph of wan traffic, etc. Or hits on your firewall - get really fancy and fire up a elkstack to monitor everything ;)

Or you could always just login into the gui and setup the widgets how you like to get a great overview of what is going on..

edit:
Here - 2 min of google and and simple snmpwalk to find index of wan interface on pfsense and bam little widget graphing my wan interface in/out on my windows machine.

stephenw10

systat -ifstat seems to offer what you're looking for:

                    /0   /1   /2   /3   /4   /5   /6   /7   /8   /9   /10
     Load Average   |

      Interface           Traffic               Peak                Total
        bridge1  in      1.236 KB/s          1.576 KB/s          120.299 MB
                 out     1.241 KB/s          1.353 KB/s          110.593 MB

          lagg0  in      0.561 KB/s          0.585 KB/s           51.941 MB
                 out     0.577 KB/s          0.609 KB/s           51.340 MB

            lo0  in      0.000 KB/s          0.000 KB/s            2.756 MB
                 out     0.000 KB/s          0.000 KB/s            2.756 MB

            ix3  in      0.071 KB/s          0.086 KB/s            7.092 MB
                 out     0.515 KB/s          0.515 KB/s           42.757 MB

            ix2  in      0.488 KB/s          0.498 KB/s           44.849 MB
                 out     0.062 KB/s          0.233 KB/s            8.583 MB

            ix0  in      0.830 KB/s          0.830 KB/s           71.975 MB
                 out     0.816 KB/s          0.959 KB/s           69.503 MB

Steve

johnpoz

There you go that is a great suggestion! Much better than some blinking light that only blinks on recv ;)

chpalmer

@HansSolo

They do, but the way the computer sits on the shelf, they are not visible. I guess i "could" strategically place a mirror back there

Or you could simply turn the box around so you can see the back.. Or build a box that has the interfaces in the front.. Or buy a Netgate box..

Lots of options but you can't blame your choice of hardware on pfsense. :)

stephenw10

I think there has been some confusion here. I don't think HansSolo was actually asking about configuring the LEDs (though that is in fact possible on some NICs). He just wanted a console display that reflected the NIC LEDs, which that command kind of does.

Steve

chpalmer

@stephenw10 said in New User to pfSense - some doubts:

I think there has been some confusion here.
Steve

Well look at his quote. Thus he can answer for himself I suppose.. :)