Hi,
I have recently implemented 20 PFSense devices onto my network and would like to automatically back them up with Solarwinds, is anyone doing it and if so how can I approach completing the following?
I am afraid that the pfsense boxes don't offer the way NCM works to back up a config directly so you need to tweak a bit.
to my knowledge pfsense stores the backup as an xml file in /cf/conf/backup. You would need to find a way to present this xml file as a text output to NCM. e.g. cat this to the console.
The way NCM is taking a backup is the following:
- logging in to the device via SSH or Telnet.
- Issue a command to "show" the config
- parsing the output to gather all the lines.
There has been a thread back in the days in the KIWI Forum where someone created a template using the "cat" command Backing up a PFSense Firewall over SSH using Generic.Device
the starting point for you would be the creation of a new device template: -> Settings -> All Settings -> manage Device templates -> add new
hope that helps.
