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    • S Offline
      SearchForTheCode
      last edited by

      Hey,

      i am on of the developers of server-eye, an cloud based monitoring software.

      We are currently investigating the PFSense firewall and i wanted to make sure i get the whole picture.

      I know about snmp , but besides from CPU,RAM, Memory Usage ( and the state table count) there isnt much going on here.

      I want to know if some information from the web-dashboard is also available via programmatic access, like over an cli or something like that.

      We need to know the status of the services and most important the "carp status"..

      Anyone has information on that topic?

      The pfsense cli seems to handle just some basic stuff https://www.linuxnet.ch/pfsense-important-cli-commands/

      Thank you in advance :)

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        charliem
        last edited by

        pfSense is built on FreeBSD, so any of your current sensor packages designed for FreeBSD should work, if you have any.

        All of the info presented in the pfSense GUI can (generally) obtained from the shell in some way or another.

        Probably best to start learning about FreeBSD, and then apply that to pfSense.  Take a look at the handbook:
        http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/index.html

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          toysareforboys
          last edited by

          If you figure out how to get its super spiffy live traffic graph to show up on an outside webpage for sure let me know! My thread about it: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,71918.0.html

          -Jamie M.

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            SearchForTheCode
            last edited by

            @toysareforboys

            i think you only can create the graph by yourself by polling the IF-MIB SNMP data for every second and look for the octects in and out on the specific interface

            @charliem

            Thats exactly what i dont know and why i asked, if anyone already know how to obtain the "master" or "slave" state via FreeBSD Shell. But if not i will try for myself..

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              bryan.paradis
              last edited by

              @SearchForTheCode:

              @toysareforboys

              i think you only can create the graph by yourself by polling the IF-MIB SNMP data for every second and look for the octects in and out on the specific interface

              @charliem

              Thats exactly what i dont know and why i asked, if anyone already know how to obtain the "master" or "slave" state via FreeBSD Shell. But if not i will try for myself..

              Well its doing it somewhere already check out the code on github I guess?

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                SearchForTheCode
                last edited by

                I will..

                i found that the CARP MIB can be used ( works under freebsd) for polling this state.

                http://www.packetmischief.ca/openbsd-snmp-mibs/#carpmib

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                  bryan.paradis
                  last edited by

                  You may find some stuff in the SNMP forum.
                  https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/board,25.0.html

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