Pfsense telegram notification on openvpn access - Revision history

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 In the following example:
-*we have two bot user chatIds (Fabrizio and Banion), respectively 173072004 and 5704842034.</br>
+* we have two bot user chatIds (Fabrizio and Banion), respectively 173072004 and 5704842034.</br>
-*the BOT API key is: 1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I (not a real value, example only)</br>
+* the BOT API key is: 1757914630\:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I (not a real value, example only)</br>
 In the advanced configuration of each server in the ''custom options'' field:
-<pre> client-connect /root/openvpn-telegram.sh client-disconnect /root/openvpn-telegram.sh script-security 2 </pre>
+<pre>

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	*the BOT API key is: 1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I (not a real value, example only)</br>		*the BOT API key is: 1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I (not a real value, example only)</br>

	</br> You need to create a bash script named ''openvpn-telegram.sh'' in the pfsense root and give it execution permissions <pre> #!/bin/sh MYDATE=$(/bin/date +'%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S') if [ "$script_type" = "client-connect" ]; then /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=173072004" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection connected. Username $common_name with external IP address $trusted_ip obtains internal IP address $ifconfig_pool_remote_ip." "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=5704842034" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection connected. Username $common_name with external IP address $trusted_ip obtains internal IP address $ifconfig_pool_remote_ip." "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" elif [ "$script_type" = "client-disconnect" ]; then /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=173072004" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection disconnected. Username $common_name " "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=5704842034" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection disconnected. Username $common_name " "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" fi exit 0 </pre>		</br> You need to create a bash script named ''openvpn-telegram.sh'' in the pfsense root and give it execution permissions<br>
			<pre> #!/bin/sh MYDATE=$(/bin/date +'%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S') if [ "$script_type" = "client-connect" ]; then /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=173072004" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection connected. Username $common_name with external IP address $trusted_ip obtains internal IP address $ifconfig_pool_remote_ip." "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=5704842034" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection connected. Username $common_name with external IP address $trusted_ip obtains internal IP address $ifconfig_pool_remote_ip." "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" elif [ "$script_type" = "client-disconnect" ]; then /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=173072004" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection disconnected. Username $common_name " "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=5704842034" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection disconnected. Username $common_name " "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" fi exit 0 </pre>
	In the advanced configuration of each server in the ''custom options'' field:		In the advanced configuration of each server in the ''custom options'' field:

	<pre> client-connect /root/openvpn-telegram.sh client-disconnect /root/openvpn-telegram.sh script-security 2 </pre>		<pre> client-connect /root/openvpn-telegram.sh client-disconnect /root/openvpn-telegram.sh script-security 2 </pre>

Administrator: Created page with "== To receive Telegram notifications for OpenVPN connections/disconnections == In the following example: *we have two bot user chatIds (Fabrizio and Banion), respectively 173072004 and 5704842034.
*the BOT API key is: 1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I (not a real value, example only)

You need to create a bash script named ''openvpn-telegram.sh'' in the pfsense root and give it execution permissions

 #!/bin/sh MYDATE=$(/bin/date +'%Y/%m..."

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Created page with "== To receive Telegram notifications for OpenVPN connections/disconnections == In the following example: *we have two bot user chatIds (Fabrizio and Banion), respectively 173072004 and 5704842034. *the BOT API key is: 1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I (not a real value, example only) You need to create a bash script named ''openvpn-telegram.sh'' in the pfsense root and give it execution permissions <pre> #!/bin/sh MYDATE=$(/bin/date +'%Y/%m..."

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== To receive Telegram notifications for OpenVPN connections/disconnections ==
In the following example:

*we have two bot user chatIds (Fabrizio and Banion), respectively 173072004 and 5704842034.
*the BOT API key is: 1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I (not a real value, example only)

 You need to create a bash script named ''openvpn-telegram.sh'' in the pfsense root and give it execution permissions <pre> #!/bin/sh MYDATE=$(/bin/date +'%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S') if [ "$script_type" = "client-connect" ]; then /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=173072004" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection connected. Username $common_name with external IP address $trusted_ip obtains internal IP address $ifconfig_pool_remote_ip." "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=5704842034" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection connected. Username $common_name with external IP address $trusted_ip obtains internal IP address $ifconfig_pool_remote_ip." "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" elif [ "$script_type" = "client-disconnect" ]; then /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=173072004" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection disconnected. Username $common_name " "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" /usr/local/bin/curl -d "chat_id=5704842034" -d "text=$MYDATE - VPN connection disconnected. Username $common_name " "https://api.telegram.org/bot1757914630:AAFw1EE42wCTJ4Vy5HTUtRUb34BQna6nU3I/sendMessage" fi exit 0 </pre>
In the advanced configuration of each server in the ''custom options'' field:

<pre> client-connect /root/openvpn-telegram.sh client-disconnect /root/openvpn-telegram.sh script-security 2 </pre>