How to allow WAN connexion monitoring ?

Elrick75

Hi to all

I want to monitor the status of my internet connection.
I would like to use the UpTimeRobot service which allows me to check remotely that the IP of my ISP is still available.
As I can't ping for security reasons, I wanted to know if I could open a specific port that would allow me to do this test?
If so, how can I do it?

Here is what UpTimeRobot allows.

Best Regards.

DaddyGo

@elrick75 said in How to allow WAN connexion monitoring ?:

I want to monitor the status of my internet connection.
I would like to use the UpTimeRobot service

Hi,

This is definitely a security risk in my reading, because it is a third party service.

We do not open a port on a firewall only when it is very necessary
Your PING theory is correct

I would do something like this to keep control in my hands:

The first step is an external VPS, I use this because it is problem free for the purpose (price / value ratio is the best):
https://www.ssdnodes.com/pricing/

Then, I suggest this step by step, this solution know more than which you want to achieve:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/154957/integrating-pfsense-with-kibana/3?_=1616681039265
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/152132/grafana-dashboard-using-telegraf-with-additional-plugins
https://github.com/VictorRobellini/pfSense-Dashboard

This way you can monitor a lot of parameters and send as many notifications (ALARM) to yourself as you are not ashamed of.

+++edit:
Yeah and in that case only you will know when you are UP.
Because by the way, for this (your WAN(s) UP state + ISP IP + ports + https) no one has anything to do with it...