pfSense

+ as well voting for configurable buildin SMTP notifications by types/monitors. This needed specially when pfSense monotired by Zabbix with own SMTP (or other notifications) so you can remove doubling of some alerts.

tasty ratz wrote:

Email alerting is not well documented and not very inclusive.

I recently experienced an issue where services were crashing as a result of VAR running out of disk space.

Both of those seem like very alertable events: low disk space should trigger an e-mail as well as service termination/ not starting.

General system health and function alerts should be tied to the notification system

Ideally, these would be configurable. email configuration does not really allow for alert customization.

MORE IMPORTANT - ALERTING CRITICAL LEVEL EVENTS MORE RESPONSIBLE and WITH GUARANTEED WAY manner, that also make RESL-TIME ALERTING!

Using pfSense’s IDS/IPS both Snort/Suricata and Ntopng GROWING EACH 6-8month since v.2.5 coming out.

So, because size of Snort/Suricata,ntopng’s logs are the “point of pain” for much of all pfSense users AND pfSense already makes great notification system (Pushover, Slack, Telegram, emails,…)

PROPOSAL
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Notifications about disk space:
When free disk space are below [25%…..]
(You may entering amount of disk space in Gb or . For example “15”, “40Gb”)
When size of /var/log system and packages logs directory are more than [40Gb]
(You may entering dir size in “Gb” or “Mb”)

If pfSense admin are serious about their pfSense installation, BOTH LICAL LOGGING and LIGGING ON REMOTE SERVER ARE MUST HAVE!