Feature request: Scripting capability for system services like Keepalived

[finks]

Hello FWCloud,


First of all, thanks for your great work.

It would be great if FWCloud offered the same scripting options under System → Keepalived and other services like HA‑Proxy, etc., as it does in Policies (Input, Output, Forward).

With these options, you could generate all parameters of a configuration file via scripts and distribute them to all or individual nodes.

For this reason, I’ve put my Keepalived scripts into the Forward policy, where they obviously don’t belong.

The same would be cool under Routing as well.

Example

Script Line 1:
#
# Global definitions (deploy to all cluster nodes)
#

export VI_1_INTERFACE="eth0"
export VI_1_VIRTUAL_IPADDRESS_1="192.168.212.21"
export VI_1_ROUTER_ID="91"
export VI_1_AUTH_PASS="SECRET"
export VI_1_ADVERT_INT="1"

export VI_2_INTERFACE="eth1"
export VI_2_VIRTUAL_IPADDRESS_1="192.168.210.1"
export VI_2_ROUTER_ID="91"
export VI_2_AUTH_PASS="SECRET"
export VI_2_ADVERT_INT="1"

export VI_3_INTERFACE="eth2"
export VI_3_VIRTUAL_IPADDRESS_1="192.168.219.1"
export VI_3_ROUTER_ID="91"
export VI_3_AUTH_PASS="SECRET"
export VI_3_ADVERT_INT="1"

Script Line 2:
#
# Node 1 definitions (deploy only to cluster node 1)
#

export VI_1_STATE="MASTER"
export VI_1_PRIORITY="200"
export VI_2_STATE="MASTER"
export VI_2_PRIORITY="200"
export VI_3_STATE="MASTER"
export VI_3_PRIORITY="200"

Script Line 3:
#
# Node 2 definitions (deploy only to cluster node 2)
#

export VI_1_STATE="BACKUP"
export VI_1_PRIORITY="100"
export VI_2_STATE="BACKUP"
export VI_2_PRIORITY="100"
export VI_3_STATE="BACKUP"
export VI_3_PRIORITY="100"


Script Line 4:
#
# VRRP configuration generation script (deploy to all cluster nodes)
#

cat <<-EOF > /etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf.generated

! Configuration File for keepalived

global_defs {
router_id $HOSTNAME # Eindeutiger Name fuer diesen Keepalived-Knoten
}

!vrrp_script chk_httpd {
! script "/usr/bin/pgrep httpd" # Prueft, ob der Webserver laeuft
! interval 2 # Prueft alle 2 Sekunden
! weight 2 # Erhoeht die Prioritaet, wenn der Dienst laeuft
!}

vrrp_instance VI_1 {
state $VI_1_STATE # MASTER oder BACKUP
interface $VI_1_INTERFACE # Netzwerkinterface
virtual_router_id $VI_1_ROUTER_ID # ID des VRRP-Routers (255)
priority $VI_1_PRIORITY # Hoehere Zahl = hoehere Prioritaet
advert_int $VI_1_ADVERT_INT # Advertisement-Intervall (Sekunden)
authentication {
auth_type PASS # Authentifizierungstyp
auth_pass $VI_1_AUTH_PASS # Passwort (bis zu 8 Zeichen)
}
!track_script {
! chk_httpd # Fuegt das Skript hinzu
!}
virtual_ipaddress {
$VI_1_VIRTUAL_IPADDRESS_1 # Gemeinsame IP-Adresse (Floating IP)
}
}

vrrp_instance VI_2 {
state $VI_2_STATE # MASTER oder BACKUP
interface $VI_2_INTERFACE # Netzwerkinterface
virtual_router_id $VI_2_ROUTER_ID # ID des VRRP-Routers (255)
priority $VI_2_PRIORITY # Hoehere Zahl = hoehere Prioritaet
advert_int $VI_2_ADVERT_INT # Advertisement-Intervall (Sekunden)
authentication {
auth_type PASS # Authentifizierungstyp
auth_pass $VI_2_AUTH_PASS # Passwort (bis zu 8 Zeichen)
}
virtual_ipaddress {
$VI_2_VIRTUAL_IPADDRESS_1 # Gemeinsame IP-Adresse (Floating IP)
}
}

vrrp_instance VI_3 {
state $VI_3_STATE # MASTER oder BACKUP
interface $VI_3_INTERFACE # Netzwerkinterface
virtual_router_id $VI_3_ROUTER_ID # ID des VRRP-Routers (255)
priority $VI_3_PRIORITY # Hoehere Zahl = hoehere Prioritaet
advert_int $VI_3_ADVERT_INT # Advertisement-Intervall (Sekunden)
authentication {
auth_type PASS # Authentifizierungstyp
auth_pass $VI_3_AUTH_PASS # Passwort (bis zu 8 Zeichen)
}
virtual_ipaddress {
$VI_3_VIRTUAL_IPADDRESS_1 # Gemeinsame IP-Adresse (Floating IP)
}
}
EOF

Script Line 5:
#
# keepalived restart command (deploy to all cluster nodes)
#

echo ""
echo "**********************************"
echo "* KEEPALIVED CONFIGURATION CHECK *"
echo "**********************************"
keepalived -t && echo "PASS - Error code: $?" || echo "FAIL - Error code: $?"
echo ""

keepalived -t && service keepalived reload

 

[Carles Munyoz]

Hello,
Thank you very much for your comments and for use FWCloud.

In the system section you can create `Manual configuration` rules but I think that this is not what you want, is it correct?

Greetings.

 

[finks]

Hello

I saw that I can define config snippets, but I didn’t see how to select which snippet is deployed to which firewall node.

With the attached example script, you can populate the template by defining variables.

I can also specify, for each snippet, exactly which node it’s applied to.

Maybe I haven’t fully understood the concept with Keepalived

How would I have to do this under System → Keepalived in order to obtain this result?

Script result:

Node A
======
! Configuration File for keepalived
global_defs {
router_id cuitfw91ap
}
vrrp_instance VI_1 {
state MASTER
interface eth0
virtual_router_id 91
priority 200
advert_int 1
authentication {
auth_type PASS
auth_pass SECRET
}
virtual_ipaddress {
192.168.212.21
}
}
vrrp_instance VI_2 {
state MASTER
interface eth1
virtual_router_id 91
priority 200
advert_int 1
authentication {
auth_type PASS
auth_pass SECRET
}
virtual_ipaddress {
192.168.210.1
}
}
vrrp_instance VI_3 {
state MASTER
interface eth2
virtual_router_id 91
priority 200
advert_int 1
authentication {
auth_type PASS
auth_pass SECRET
}
virtual_ipaddress {
192.168.219.1
}
}


Node B
======
! Configuration File for keepalived
global_defs {
router_id cuitfw91bp
}
vrrp_instance VI_1 {
state BACKUP
interface eth0
virtual_router_id 91
priority 100
advert_int 1
authentication {
auth_type PASS
auth_pass SECRET
}
virtual_ipaddress {
192.168.212.21
}
}
vrrp_instance VI_2 {
state BACKUP
interface eth1
virtual_router_id 91
priority 100
advert_int 1
authentication {
auth_type PASS
auth_pass SECRET
}
virtual_ipaddress {
192.168.210.1
}
}
vrrp_instance VI_3 {
state BACKUP
interface eth2
virtual_router_id 91
priority 100
advert_int 1
authentication {
auth_type PASS
auth_pass SECRET
}
virtual_ipaddress {
192.168.219.1
}
}



Greetings

Stephan

 

[Carles Munyoz]

You are right, at this moment it is not possible to select cluster nodes to which apply one configuration rule.
It is a feature we must implement and we have created a new issue for it:

https://github.com/soltecsis/fwcloud-ui-src/issues/1172

 

[finks]

Thank you all very much.

 

[Carles Munyoz]

I thing that we will implement this feature in the next patch release.