It would be neat to have a cron job reporting certain parameters conveying how a pfsense is running. I use to work at a company managing a hundred and a quarter FreeBSD appliances and we had a custom Control Center webpage where we could track all machines easily.
As I recall, this is what it had: a. Cron job running reporting once an hour or upon demand b. multiple parameters - disk space, cpu usage, memory usage, packets lost across in a row (fitting the width of a screen), if the machine is up, interface status, temperatures... c. If a certain parameter crossed a limit, it would show as color coded, yellow or red d. Click to get more info - like dmesg, disk usage, uptime e. Click heading to sort f. One machine = one row. We could see 20 or so machines on a screen. Machines in "red" got sorted to the top and yellow below them. We could put machine status to "sleep" for some time - meaning they did not show up and clutter the screen. Like when a machine is off-line and we know it is turned off and is no big deal. g. We could add notes on what we did to that machine and when h. The page would refresh every few minutes. The setup was quite simple - a postgresql database on our network getting data or doing queries via ODBC/JDBC. Then our web application pulled and displayed the status to the webpage Control Center. I was involved in speccing out our requirements but did not do any back-end coding - So I am not very sure how the database spoke with each machine. Mehma === On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Michel Servaes <mic...@mcmc.be> wrote: > How many walls do you have? > >> >> Mehma >> === >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Michel Servaes <mic...@mcmc.be <mailto: >> mic...@mcmc.be>> wrote: >> >> > >> > Web surfing happens on port 80 and tcp only. There should be no >> udp port 80 >> > traffic going out. I think I read it in the pfsense book which >> just came >> > out. >> > >> > >> >> Didn't read it yet (but, then again - I'm only at page 147 ;-) ) >> In the meanwhile, I blocked 80/udp on my firewalls :) >> >> >> >> I'm managing about 20 firewalls, most of them being entry level Linksys > RV042/82 or DLINK DFL-200 > But I am changing each and every broken device by a pfSense (or monowall) > one... and currently I have 4 pfSense boxes running. > > 2 proliant servers, and 2 Alix boards. (a 2D3 and a 2D13) > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > >
