ipfw

Plugin: freebsd.plugin Module: ipfw

Overview

Collect information about FreeBSD firewall.

The plugin uses RAW socket to communicate with kernel and collect data.

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn't support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per ipfw instance

Theese metrics show FreeBSD firewall statistics.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
ipfw.mem	dynamic, static	bytes
ipfw.packets	a dimension per static rule	packets/s
ipfw.bytes	a dimension per static rule	bytes/s
ipfw.active	a dimension per dynamic rule	rules
ipfw.expired	a dimension per dynamic rule	rules

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is netdata.conf. Configuration for this specific integration is located in the [plugin:freebsd:ipfw] section within that file.

The file format is a modified INI syntax. The general structure is:

[section1]
    option1 = some value
    option2 = some other value

[section2]
    option3 = some third value

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config netdata.conf

Options

Config options

Name	Description	Default	Required
counters for static rules	Enable or disable counters for static rules metric.	yes	no
number of dynamic rules	Enable or disable number of dynamic rules metric.	yes	no
allocated memory	Enable or disable allocated memory metric.	yes	no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.