Zabbix Agent IPFire specific item keys

supported by zabbix_agentd addon

IPFire Services

Gateway availability

Firewall

DHCP server

Captive Portal

Pakfire

OpenVPN

WireGuard

Intrusion Protection

Guardian

Location DB

Item key details

Parameters without angle brackets are mandatory. Parameters marked with angle brackets < > are optional.

ipfire.services.get

Summary of IPFire services, their state, pids and memory usage. Can be used for low-level discovery.
Return value: JSON object

This item returns a JSON with information about IPFire builtin and addon services, for example:

[
  {
    "service": "DHCP Server",
    "servicename": "dhcpd",
    "state": 1,
    "pids": [
      3855
    ],
    "memory": 6684672
  },
  {
    "service": "Addon: zabbix_agentd",
    "servicename": "zabbix_agentd",
    "onboot": 1,
    "state": 1,
    "pids": [
      17207
    ],
    "memory": 2740224
  }
]

ipfire.net.gateway.arpingtime

Internet Gateway ARP ping timings, can be used to measure "Internet Line Quality", in case ICMP ping is blocked by the ISP.
Return value: Integer

ipfire.net.gateway.arping

Internet Gateway availability by ARPing, can be used to check Internet connection, in case ICMP ping is blocked by the ISP.
Return value: Integer

ipfire.net.gateway.pingtime

Internet Gateway ICMP ping timings, can be used to measure "Internet Line Quality"
Return value: Integer

ipfire.net.gateway.ping

Internet Gateway availability by ICMP ping, can be used to check Internet connection
Return value: Integer

ipfire.net.fw.hits.raw

Firewall Filter Forward chain drops in bytes/chain, can be used for low-level discovery of firewall chains and monitoring of firewall hits on each chain
Return value: JSON object

This item returns a JSON with Firewall filter chain drops in bytes/chain, for example:

[
  {
    "chain": "CTINVALID",
    "bytes": "739395"
  },
  {
    "chain": "FORWARD",
    "bytes": "12506820"
  },
  {
    "chain": "INPUT",
    "bytes": "1005809"
  },
  {
    "chain": "OUTPUT",
    "bytes": "0"
  }
]

ipfire.dhcpd.clients

Number of currently Active DHCP leases
Return value: Integer

ipfire.captive.clients

Number of Captive Portal clients
Return value: Integer

pakfire.status

Pakfire status message containing IPFire Core Update version information and available update information
Return value: Text

ipfire.ovpn.clients.discovery

Discovery of configured ovpn clients for use with low-level discovery.
Return value: JSON object

This item returns a JSON with configured OpenVPN clients, for example:

[
  {
    "{#NAME}": "Laptop",
    "{#COMMONNAME}": "Ideapad",
    "{#STATE}": "on",
    "{#REMARK}": "",
    "{#TYPE}": "host"
  },
  {
    "{#NAME}": "Gsm",
    "{#COMMONNAME}": "Oneplus",
    "{#STATE}": "on",
    "{#REMARK}": "",
    "{#TYPE}": "host"
  }
]

Supported macros

The following macros are supported for use in the discovery rule filter and prototypes of items, triggers and graphs:

ipfire.ovpn.statusreport.get

OpenVPN statusreport.
Return value: JSON object

Comments:

• Can also be called with empty parameters: ipfire.ovpn.statusreport.get[] for use as an item prototype in a discovery rule with an empty {#SINGLETON} macro.

This item parses /var/run/ovpnserver.log and returns a JSON with the parsed result, for example:

{
  "timestamp": 1729283374,
  "clients": [
    {
      "common_name": "Oneplus",
      "real_address": "192.168.1.100:59650",
      "bytes_in": "99023277",
      "bytes_out": "1683354183",
      "connected_since": "1729183106"
    }
  ],
  "routing_table": [
    {
      "common_name": "Oneplus",
      "virtual_address": "10.220.189.18",
      "real_address": "192.168.1.100:59650",
      "last_ref": "1729283354"
    }
  ]
}

ipfire.ovpn.clientcert[ovpn_clientname]

Validates the OpenVPN server or client certificate and returns certificate details.
Return value: JSON object

Parameters:

• ovpn_clientname - OpenVPN client-name as returned in the {#NAME} macro by ipfire.ovpn.clients.discovery for client certificate or server for the OpenVPN server certificate.

Comments:

• This item turns unsupported if the resource specified in ovpn_clientname does not exist

Example:

ipfire.ovpn.clientcert[server]     # To get/validate the OpenVPN server certificate
ipfire.ovpn.clientcert[Laptop001]  # To get/validate the OpenVPN client certificate for client "Laptop001"

This item returns a JSON with requested certificate details and validation result, for example:

{
  "x509": {
    "version": "3",
    "serial_number": "1",
    "signature_algorithm": "sha256WithRSAEncryption",
    "issuer": "C=DE, O=IPFire, CN=IPFire appliance CA, emailAddress=info@ipfire.example.domain",
    "not_before": {
      "value": "Feb 13 18:58:17 2022 GMT",
      "timestamp": "1644778697"
    },
    "not_after": {
      "value": "Jan 10 18:58:17 4760 GMT",
      "timestamp": "88044692297"
    },
    "subject": "C=DE, O=IPFire, CN=ipfire.example.domain",
    "public_key_algorithm": "rsaEncryption"
  },
  "result": {
    "value": "valid",
    "message": "certificate verified successfully"
  },
  "sha1_fingerprint": "A4:23:1C:0F:EF:FE:8C:43:F5:14:43:83:BD:5C:E1:3E:AC:5E:A1:E7",
  "sha256_fingerprint": "A5:64:D9:BA:35:4D:43:9E:F0:7D:BC:AD:EC:62:93:BD:C9:82:3B:95:D5:83:78:11:D4:40:60:6D:AF:42:3C:E5"
}

ipfire.ovpn.cacert

Validates the OpenVPN CA certificate and returns certificate details.
Return value: JSON object

Comments:

• Can also be called with empty parameters: ipfire.ovpn.cacert[] for use as an item prototype in a discovery rule with an empty {#SINGLETON} macro.
• The returned JSON object has the same format as ipfire.ovpn.clientcert.

ipfire.wireguard.peers.discovery

Discovery of configured WireGuard peers for use with low-level discovery.
Return value: JSON object

This item returns a JSON with configured WireGuard peers, for example:

[
   {
      "{#NAME}":"GSM",
      "{#ID}":"GkxGYoQagndpjBb4LmO/+aoFdalUVenSBwZQlkWHKyw=",
      "{#STATE}":"on",
      "{#REMARK_B64}":"T25lUGx1cyBOb3JkIDM=",
      "{#TYPE}":"host"
   },
   {
      "{#NAME}":"Laptop",
      "{#ID}":"sn2McCt61iIZX8ZdKUs5HcI/JEkFHE5buoN+LCRzhlo=",
      "{#STATE}":"on",
      "{#REMARK_B64}":"",
      "{#TYPE}":"host"
   }
]

Supported macros

The following macros are supported for use in the discovery rule filter and prototypes of items, triggers and graphs:

ipfire.wireguard.statusreport.get

WireGuard statusreport.
Return value: JSON object

This item returns a JSON with statistics of all peers, for example:

[
   {
      "id":"GkxGYoQagndpjBb4LmO/+aoFdalUVenSBwZQlkWHKyw=",
      "endpoint":"192.168.1.100:38391",
      "allowed_ip":"10.220.190.1/32",
      "handshake_timestamp":1753897790,
      "bytes_in":970542448,
      "bytes_out":5426505240
   },
   {
      "id":"sn2McCt61iIZX8ZdKUs5HcI/JEkFHE5buoN+LCRzhlo=",
      "endpoint":"192.168.1.171:51820",
      "allowed_ip":"10.220.190.2/32",
      "handshake_timestamp":1750934933,
      "bytes_in":2556,
      "bytes_out":308
   }
]

ipfire.ips.throughput.get

Summary of Intrusion Detection Prevention (IPS) throughput.
Return value: JSON object

Comments:

• Can also be called with empty parameters: ipfire.ips.throughput.get[] for use as an item prototype in a discovery rule with an empty {#SINGLETON} macro.

This item returns a JSON with whitelisted, scanned and bypassed IPS throughput in bytes per second, for example:

{
  "bypassed": 2608332316,
  "whitelisted": 0,
  "scanned": 908881957
}

ipfire.guardian.blocked.count

Number of blocked IP addresses by Guardian.
Return value: Integer

Comments:

• Can also be called with empty parameters: ipfire.guardian.blocked.count[] for use as an item prototype in a discovery rule with an empty {#SINGLETON} macro.

ipfire.locationdb.lookup[ip,<ip>,<ip>,...]

Lookup one or more IP's in IPFire's Location DB.
Return value: JSON Object

This item returns a JSON containing the network, Country of origin and the AS that owns the IP for each requested IP.

Parameters:

• ip - the IP to look up in the LocationDB. This parameter can be repeated up to 9 times to get the location of up to 9 IP addresses in one call.

Example:

{
   "8.8.8.8":{
      "network":"8.8.8.0/24",
      "country":"United States of America",
      "as":"AS15169 - Google LLC"
   },
   "1.1.1.1":{
      "network":"1.1.1.0/24",
      "country":"Australia",
      "as":"AS13335 - Cloudflare, Inc."
   }
}

ipfire.locationdb.version

Current version of LocationDB.
Return value: Integer

LocationDB version is a timestamp. This item returns the timestamp in unixtime for easy interpretation by Zabbix server.