Receive notifications on pfsense ipsec or openvpn connection/disconnection

A couple of scripts to receive notifications for ipsec or openvpn (dis)connections on your pfsense firewall. This was tested with a Netgate SG-5100 firewall with pfsense version 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 (amd64).

https://github.com/ChadDevOps/pfsense-vpn-notifications

SSH

• SSH to your pfsense firewall. Upload files to /root/
• chmod 755

 4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   1999 Jul 17  2019 ipsec.php
 4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    198 Jul 17  2019 notify.php
 4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    308 Jul 17  2019 openvpnconnect.sh
 4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    498 Jul 17  2019 openvpndisconnect.sh

Open VPN

For open VPN:

• Login to GUI
• VPN
• Edit your OpenVPN Server
• Under Advanced Configuration, Custom options, add the following line:

client-connect /root/openvpnconnect.sh;client-disconnect /root/openvpndisconnect.sh;

ipsec

Create cron to run every minute or so. This will not give exact times for connect/disconnect but within a 60 second window.

• Login to GUI
• Services
• Cron

* * * * * root /usr/local/bin/php /root/ipsec.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Notifications

Setup your SMTP server. The above files utilize pfsense's php functions to send via the send_smtp_message function

• Login to GUI
• System
• Advanced
• Notifications Tab