Anyone had any luck installing the agent in to a PFsense firewall? Tried with no luck, with my limited linux knowlage.

Hi,

 

PFSense is FreeBSD based distribution and Pulseway doesn't support BSD yet.

 

Regards,

Mark

Yes I know what it is, Just trying to keep it simple. Thanks for the answer.

Np. Anyway, BSD port is on the roadmap so, keep an eye on the forum.

 

Regards,

Mark

Hi,

 

Has there been any progress with an agent for BSD. The last post in 2014 said it is on the roadmap and now it is 2015. I have many pfSense routers to monitor and I would like to use your software...

 

Thanks!

Hi,

 

Unfortunately, BSD agent is not ready yet. We've focused on building a Remote Desktop module for Pulseway which was one of the most popular feature requests we've had. Rest assured as we will support BSD in the future.

 

Regards,

Chris

Pulseway Support

Having some of our systems on one monitoring system and the rest on another is really not something we want. Also with how poorly the remote is it is sad it took that long to develop. Linux and BSD are not that dissimilar and it is not that hard to port from Linux to BSD. Also i find it disingenuous when you say that it is in the pipeline when you already have a MAC version! They have less than 5% of the market. Yet BSD with a much larger install base and being the OS of choice for networking gear and File Servers It is just unimaginable that in 5 years you couldn't be bothered to finish the prot!

Any News on this port yet?

Hi,

I'm really sorry we're pushing this for so long however there is still no progress on this as of now. I will post a reply when this becomes available and also added your email to the todo so that we'll let you know when this becomes available.

Chris

FreeBSD support would be great!

bump!

Any word after nearly 5 years since original post?

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Bringing this post up again. Would really like to monitor my PFSense Router which is FreeBSD

also have a need to monitor freebsd... either pfsense, freenas or just freebsd in general... I use them all..

I'd also like to be able to have a solution that would be able to cover all my bases before I commit to it, so lack of FreeBSD support is quite unfortunate.

Would be nice to have a way to use Pulseway on my pfSense rig.

+1 a PfSense agent would be awesome

remote desktop for linux/BSD has been on the radar since 2015 any update 

Hi @randy_srs 

Thanks for reaching out, as of right now there is now update regarding this feature, however if you make a feature request HERE and it gets enough votes then it would definitely be topped up on the priority list. 

Thanks, 

Stefan 

Edit: nevermind

Edited May 6May 6 by Rick Thatcher
No longer need the comment.

I see that there is a pfSense agent to download under my onboarding downloads tab. I'm just curious as to how I get this installed on my pfSense box? Do I copy via flash drive? Not real sure and would be very helpful with any detailed instructions. Thank you.

Hey @mchristensen - We don't have a KB article for this as of now. However, the only difference in the installation process when compared to the Linux/Ubuntu article we have is the 1st command. 

In Ubuntu we use "wget <download link>"

In PfSense we use "fetch <download link>"

Here's the Linux article for clarity: https://intercom.help/pulseway/en/articles/2971801-how-to-install-and-configure-pulseway-linux-agent-on-ubuntu-os

1. Fetch download URLPulseway.pkg

2. Pkg install file_name.pkg

3. Pulseway-registration

Let me know if this works for you😊

@Mariale_Pulseway

Thank you. I was able to get the pkg transferred and installed. However when I run the pulseway-registration command I receive the following crash report:

Crash report begins. Anonymous machine information:

amd64

15.0-CURRENT

FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #1 RELENG_2_8_0-n256081-401ec5f685b9: Wed May 21 23:53:51 UTC 2025 root@freebsd:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_8_0-main/obj/amd64/0q9vjGjc/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_8_0-main/sources/FreeBSD-src-RE

Crash report details:

PHP Errors:

[06-Jun-2025 13:16:05 America/Chicago] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in /usr/local/www/diag_command.php on line 174

No FreeBSD crash data found.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? This box has a 4790k, 16GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 1TB HDD RAID1 installed.