
I'm considering replacing my Cisco 2821 with a PC-based router in the near future. (I'm currently thinking PFSense or Freesco, but I haven't really started research in depth yet.)
I'm sure someone (probably several someones) out there is using Observium to monitor one of these devices, and I'm looking for a bit of feedback on how the process goes and what kind of info you receive.
Thank you in advance!

I monitor some pfSense instances. It pulls the kind of information you’d expect, I guess? Not sure what you’re looking for.
System resources (CPU, memory, disk, swap, etc.), interface information (utilization, configuration), inventory (system PCI info), logs events like anything else.
If you have a specific concern I can check and see if it pulls that data or not.
From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 9:12 AM To: "observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org" Subject: [Observium] PFSense
I'm considering replacing my Cisco 2821 with a PC-based router in the near future. (I'm currently thinking PFSense or Freesco, but I haven't really started research in depth yet.)
I'm sure someone (probably several someones) out there is using Observium to monitor one of these devices, and I'm looking for a bit of feedback on how the process goes and what kind of info you receive.
Thank you in advance!
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That sounds like plenty of info. Does Observium list it as a network device or as a server?
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Pedersen, Sean spedersen@io.com wrote:
I monitor some pfSense instances. It pulls the kind of information you’d expect, I guess? Not sure what you’re looking for.
System resources (CPU, memory, disk, swap, etc.), interface information (utilization, configuration), inventory (system PCI info), logs events like anything else.
If you have a specific concern I can check and see if it pulls that data or not.
From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 9:12 AM To: "observium@observium.org" Subject: [Observium] PFSense
I'm considering replacing my Cisco 2821 with a PC-based router in the near future. (I'm currently thinking PFSense or Freesco, but I haven't really started research in depth yet.)
I'm sure someone (probably several someones) out there is using Observium to monitor one of these devices, and I'm looking for a bit of feedback on how the process goes and what kind of info you receive.
Thank you in advance!
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It’s categorized as a firewall.
From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 11:55 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] PFSense
That sounds like plenty of info. Does Observium list it as a network device or as a server?
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Pedersen, Sean <spedersen@io.commailto:spedersen@io.com> wrote: I monitor some pfSense instances. It pulls the kind of information you’d expect, I guess? Not sure what you’re looking for.
System resources (CPU, memory, disk, swap, etc.), interface information (utilization, configuration), inventory (system PCI info), logs events like anything else.
If you have a specific concern I can check and see if it pulls that data or not.
From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 9:12 AM To: "observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org" Subject: [Observium] PFSense
I'm considering replacing my Cisco 2821 with a PC-based router in the near future. (I'm currently thinking PFSense or Freesco, but I haven't really started research in depth yet.)
I'm sure someone (probably several someones) out there is using Observium to monitor one of these devices, and I'm looking for a bit of feedback on how the process goes and what kind of info you receive.
Thank you in advance!
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Does it pull connections per second? On 10/04/2015 4:58 am, "Pedersen, Sean" spedersen@io.com wrote:
It’s categorized as a firewall.
From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 11:55 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] PFSense
That sounds like plenty of info. Does Observium list it as a network device or as a server?
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Pedersen, Sean spedersen@io.com wrote:
I monitor some pfSense instances. It pulls the kind of information you’d expect, I guess? Not sure what you’re looking for.
System resources (CPU, memory, disk, swap, etc.), interface information (utilization, configuration), inventory (system PCI info), logs events like anything else.
If you have a specific concern I can check and see if it pulls that data or not.
From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 9:12 AM To: "observium@observium.org" Subject: [Observium] PFSense
I'm considering replacing my Cisco 2821 with a PC-based router in the near future. (I'm currently thinking PFSense or Freesco, but I haven't really started research in depth yet.)
I'm sure someone (probably several someones) out there is using Observium to monitor one of these devices, and I'm looking for a bit of feedback on how the process goes and what kind of info you receive.
Thank you in advance!
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Local connection stats are in TCP-MIB. Firewall code stats aren't collected yet, if they even exist in SNMP (does bsnmp have a pf-mib?)
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On 9 April 2015 23:25:48 Daniel Hood dsmhood@gmail.com wrote:
Does it pull connections per second? On 10/04/2015 4:58 am, "Pedersen, Sean" spedersen@io.com wrote:
It’s categorized as a firewall.
From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 11:55 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] PFSense
That sounds like plenty of info. Does Observium list it as a network device or as a server?
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Pedersen, Sean spedersen@io.com wrote:
I monitor some pfSense instances. It pulls the kind of information you’d expect, I guess? Not sure what you’re looking for.
System resources (CPU, memory, disk, swap, etc.), interface information (utilization, configuration), inventory (system PCI info), logs events like anything else.
If you have a specific concern I can check and see if it pulls that data or not.
From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 9:12 AM To: "observium@observium.org" Subject: [Observium] PFSense
I'm considering replacing my Cisco 2821 with a PC-based router in the near future. (I'm currently thinking PFSense or Freesco, but I haven't really started research in depth yet.)
I'm sure someone (probably several someones) out there is using Observium to monitor one of these devices, and I'm looking for a bit of feedback on how the process goes and what kind of info you receive.
Thank you in advance!
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bsnmp does have a pf-mib. The standard place pfsense people would point to for MIBs in the past was http://files.pfsense.org/misc/mibs/ ... however, those were all uploaded four years ago. The latest version of PFSense is based on FreeBSD 10. Just browsing the source tree quickly there have been some changes over the past couple of years; I didn't dig in to see if they were changes that mattered or not: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.sbin/bsnmpd/modules/snmp_pf/
On 4/9/15 6:38 PM, Adam Armstronf wrote:
Local connection stats are in TCP-MIB. Firewall code stats aren't collected yet, if they even exist in SNMP (does bsnmp have a pf-mib?)
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On 9 April 2015 23:25:48 Daniel Hood dsmhood@gmail.com wrote:
Does it pull connections per second?
On 10/04/2015 4:58 am, "Pedersen, Sean" <spedersen@io.com mailto:spedersen@io.com> wrote:
It’s categorized as a firewall. From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 11:55 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] PFSense That sounds like plenty of info. Does Observium list it as a network device or as a server? On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Pedersen, Sean <spedersen@io.com <mailto:spedersen@io.com>> wrote: I monitor some pfSense instances. It pulls the kind of information you’d expect, I guess? Not sure what you’re looking for. System resources (CPU, memory, disk, swap, etc.), interface information (utilization, configuration), inventory (system PCI info), logs events like anything else. If you have a specific concern I can check and see if it pulls that data or not. From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 9:12 AM To: "observium@observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>" Subject: [Observium] PFSense I'm considering replacing my Cisco 2821 with a PC-based router in the near future. (I'm currently thinking PFSense or Freesco, but I haven't really started research in depth yet.) I'm sure someone (probably several someones) out there is using Observium to monitor one of these devices, and I'm looking for a bit of feedback on how the process goes and what kind of info you receive. Thank you in advance! *Founded in 2007, IO provides the data center as a service to businesses and governments around the world.* The communication contained in this e-mail is confidential and is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, attorney work product or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender of the error, and delete this communication including any attached files from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium@observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium *Founded in 2007, IO provides the data center as a service to businesses and governments around the world.* The communication contained in this e-mail is confidential and is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, attorney work product or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender of the error, and delete this communication including any attached files from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium@observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium
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Depending on what you're looking to do, you may want to take a look at VyOS as well. http://vyos.net/wiki/Main_Page
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Kevin Phair kevin@nyi.net wrote:
bsnmp does have a pf-mib. The standard place pfsense people would point to for MIBs in the past was http://files.pfsense.org/misc/mibs/ ... however, those were all uploaded four years ago. The latest version of PFSense is based on FreeBSD 10. Just browsing the source tree quickly there have been some changes over the past couple of years; I didn't dig in to see if they were changes that mattered or not: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.sbin/bsnmpd/modules/snmp_pf/
On 4/9/15 6:38 PM, Adam Armstronf wrote:
Local connection stats are in TCP-MIB. Firewall code stats aren't collected yet, if they even exist in SNMP (does bsnmp have a pf-mib?)
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On 9 April 2015 23:25:48 Daniel Hood dsmhood@gmail.com dsmhood@gmail.com wrote:
Does it pull connections per second? On 10/04/2015 4:58 am, "Pedersen, Sean" spedersen@io.com wrote:
It’s categorized as a firewall.
From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 11:55 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] PFSense
That sounds like plenty of info. Does Observium list it as a network device or as a server?
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Pedersen, Sean spedersen@io.com wrote:
I monitor some pfSense instances. It pulls the kind of information you’d expect, I guess? Not sure what you’re looking for.
System resources (CPU, memory, disk, swap, etc.), interface information (utilization, configuration), inventory (system PCI info), logs events like anything else.
If you have a specific concern I can check and see if it pulls that data or not.
From: Jason Vanlandingham Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 9:12 AM To: "observium@observium.org" Subject: [Observium] PFSense
I'm considering replacing my Cisco 2821 with a PC-based router in the near future. (I'm currently thinking PFSense or Freesco, but I haven't really started research in depth yet.)
I'm sure someone (probably several someones) out there is using Observium to monitor one of these devices, and I'm looking for a bit of feedback on how the process goes and what kind of info you receive.
Thank you in advance!
*Founded in 2007, IO provides the data center as a service to businesses and governments around the world.*
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