pfSense

pfSense: Open-source firewall and router platform with VPN, traffic shaping, and intrusion detection capabilities.

To onboard such a source to Axoflow, complete the generic appliance onboarding steps.

Labels

Axoflow automatically adds the following labels to data collected from this source:

Analytics label Message field value
vendor meta.vendor netgate
product meta.product pfsense
service meta.service.name filterlog

You can use the labels as:

You can use the message fields

  • in Flow Processing steps, for example, in the Query field of Select Messages steps,
  • in AQL expressions in the search bars.

Sending data to Splunk

When sending the data collected from this source to Splunk, Axoflow uses the following sourcetype and index settings:

sourcetype index
pfsense:filterlog netfw
pfsense:<program> netops

The pfsense:<program> variant is simply a generic linux event that is generated by the underlying OS on the appliance.

Tested with: TA-pfsense

Sending data to Google SecOps

When sending the data collected from this source to a dynamic Google SecOps destination, Axoflow sets the following log type: PFSENSE.