Notifications when Gateway is down

affa

Is there any way to get a notification to my phone when a gateway is down? I know there are SMTP notifications and Telegram. I was kind of hoping for something directly to my phone though, so it doesn't get buried in other email/Telegram notifications.

Thanks!

Gertjan

@affa

Define "directly to my phone" ?
Telegram, mail, etc is, afaik, is directly to your phone.

You want an sms ? That can be done, but you have to make one (rather complex thing) for yourself, as every phone company uses it's own 'protocol' and access to a sms gateway, not being a phone, is very $$$ (€€€).

Btw : a mail notification, or telegram etc, will send out over the default gateway of your pfSense.
And you want a message if that gateway is down ? (how does the notification get send at that moment ? ^^ at best it will get send when the interface comes back online )

A possible solution is : if you normally don't use gmail (has direct asap notification), use a gmail account. As soon as you see a gmail notification, you know its your pfSense.
edit : maybe : you could probably assign a special ring notification if it was your pfSense sending something.
edit : or hotmail, whatever they call that one today.

Next best is : test the reachability of your gateway/pfSense from the outside - the place where your wireguard is connected to.

My advise : invest your time in understanding why the link goes down, which boils down to : get a better ISP ?

affa

@Gertjan said in Notifications when Gateway is down:

a message if that gateway is down ?

Thanks Gertjan for your response. Sorry, wasn't clear that I was wanting a notification when my "Wireguard" gateways are down. I am not sure if it is due to a bot attack or what, but frequently I see multiple Wireguard gateways down to multiple sites.

Perhaps Telegram, or SMTP is going to be the only way to do this, but was hoping for a notification (like an app notification) on my phone, which would be easier for simple users like me to use to help manage the environment.

luckman212

@affa are you familiar with UptimeKuma? Now that there's a nice API (Nexus) on pfSense you can interact with, you could use a "JSON Query" monitor from Kuma pointed at the /system/gateways/status endpoint in Nexus, and fire off Push notifications (Kuma supports dozens of services like Pushover, Pushbullet, SMS eg clickatell, etc...) to your phone if those WG gateway(s) go down. That's probably what I'd do.

dennypage

@luckman212 fwiw, librenms also supports that kind of functionality , either directly or through snmp.

affa

Thank you for the suggestions, will look into them more!