How can I get internet connection status from TZ470?

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  Jaime SonicWall Employee

  July 9 Answer ✓

  I think there are probably better methods of determining WAN connectivity or link status that may be more reliable or polished as a product. Some examples are:

  • Using the built-in logs and email alerting (if you have an internal email server that can alert you to a down interface).
  • Using SNMP or NetFlow/IPFIX collectors. These utilities usually have some level of reporting and alerting. These often include other forms of monitoring such as ICMP, TCP, etc.
  • Using the built-in Network Monitor Probes feature can also report connectivity issues (again, alerts would require an accessible email server or watching logs).
  • Syslog servers may be able to provide some kind of alerting/reporting for certain events.

  That's just what I can think of right off the top of my head. But to answer your question specifically, you can use SonicOS API to get the link status.

  The general steps:

  1. Authenticate to SonicOS API (POST to /api/sonicos/auth).
  2. Get the IPv4 interface status of all interfaces (GET to /api/sonicos/reporting/interfaces/ipv4/status). This will return JSON data with the interface information, including link status.
  3. Alternatively, you can get the status of a specific interface by name (GET to /api/sonicos/reporting/interfaces/ipv4/status/name/X1)
  4. If getting the status of all interfaces, you can loop through the entries in the returned JSON data to return just the name and link status if that's all you're looking for.

  The response JSON will look like this (note there are differences in the response between the two endpoints provided above):

  [
    ...
    {
      "name": "X1",
      "zone": "WAN",
      "type": "Wire",
      "ip_mode": "DHCP",
      "ip_address": "111.222.111.222",
      "subnet_mask": "255.255.255.0",
      "connected": null,
      "status": "1 Gbps Full Duplex",
      "link_settings": "Auto Negotiate",
      "link_isgigabit": 1000,
      "link_ability_bmp_low": 3590324271,
      "link_ability_bmp_high": 0,
      "group": " Default LB Group",
      "enabled": true,
      "configurable": true,
      "deletable": false,
      "comment": "Default WAN"
    },
    ...
  ]
  

  Hope this helps!

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  Jaime SonicWall Employee

  July 29 Answer ✓

  Is it possible to get the interface X1 status from the router without logging in from a system connected on the LAN side? Or I always have to login with a username and password?

  As ARKWRIGHT mentioned, yes, you will always need to log in to get information from the firewall. How you login depends on the method you use to get information from it. Perhaps you do this programmatically and store credentials locally, or you maybe manually log in and check it.

  I have a standalone system that uses the router for internet access, I have no email servers or monitoring.

  Also, is it possible to setup the sonicwall such that it can notify of a status change to a system on the LAN side?

  Given this is a standalone host with no method of receiving a notification such as an email service, syslog service, SNMP service, etc., you will either have to trigger the check yourself (run a script that fetches the information you want via SonicOS API) or use scheduling/cron to automatically run a script that checks and somehow reports it back to you.

  Ultimately, as I mentioned earlier, you will want to look at running some sort of service(s) that can provide the notification you're looking for.

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