Is it possible in some way to get dashboard integration from another site?
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Basically i want to be able to present dashboard type information on another site with live data from the dashboard ... could even be the very same widget(s) or some kind of API...
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The dashboard ? No way, pfSense is a "router" so no news is good news.
If you have to look at things, set up a remote syslogger (see manual), and the lines scroll over whatever screen where ever.If you have to connect to pfSense with a browser, use a VPN connection like IPSEC, OpenVPN or install Wireguard.
pfSense has no 'API'.
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@planetinse the api, etc. has been hinted about for quite some time. I do "believe" it is somewhere on the roadmap..
Here is a post from 2 years ago over on reddit from @jimp
The main reason is because pfSense (and its original parent project) were not designed with an API in mind. To do it properly will require a lot of redesign from the ground up in various places. Things like "Faux API" are kludges at best. They give the appearance of an API while adding to the mess without fixing the problems.
It's something we still intend to do, it's just taking time to make sure it's done properly. We've learned quite a lot about how things should work in that area from building TNSR since we had the opportunity to start from scratch there. When the time comes, we can apply that knowledge to pfSense as well.
If I had to "GUESS" this would be something that would be in + version of pfsense.
When this might happen.. have no idea really. All I can say is it has come up now and then.
BTW - I have no special insight to roadmaps or plans or status or anything more than anyone else.. But I spend a lot of time reading threads, not just here but other places as well.. And this topic comes up now and then for sure..
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@gertjan I suspected that, then it's probably easier to "browse" it with a backend browser - get the data needed and present it again - at the "other" server.
