What is the better way to organize whitelists of external monitoring servers (URL IPs or URL Table (IPs)?
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Merry Christmas, pfSense Gurus!
What is the better way to organize whitelists of external monitoring servers: URL (IPs) or URL Table (IPs) (which have update period setting) ?
Generally most reputable monitoring services (like Pingdom, UptimeRobot, Site24x7, RootInternet, etc…) have publish their servers lists in several formats simultaneously:
- TXT file with ipV4 addresses (and may be ipV6 addresses separately);
- JSON file (the same);
- Link on php page which returns TXT or JSON file;
- Link on RSS feed that return list of IPs;
The question is:
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Which type (IPs or IPs table) I need for 1. - 4. cases (see above)?
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how to organize all of them in case I need 1(one!) firewall alias on each monitoring service provider (menu Firewall ~> Aliases)?
P.S.
If You know very stable and reputable monitoring service in Your country, please drop here a link (or name of it). Thank You so much!