Using legacy plugins

General

Legacy type plugins are located in the following location:

/usr/local/etc/inc/plugins.inc.d/

And contain files with the extension “.inc”.

All automatically registered functions start with the name of the file (without the extension), followed by the purpose. For example vpn_configure would be the configure handle in a plugin file name vpn.inc.

With the use of these plugins, you have the ability to hook into different areas of the system, such as registration of new interface types and making sure services are shown in the regular service overview.

Services

To register services, the <plugin>_services() function should return a structure containing its name, description and operating properties.

function myplugin_services()
{
    $service = array();
    $service['name'] = 'myservice';
    $service['description'] = gettext('My service');
    $service['configd']['restart'] = array('myservice restart');
    $service['configd']['start'] = array('myservice start');
    $service['configd']['stop'] = array('myservice stop');
    $services[] = $pconfig;
    return $services;
}

To list all available services from the command line, you can use pluginctl (bundled with our core system).

pluginctl -s

The same tool can also be used to execute the [re]start/stop operations, for the example above, a restart would look like:

pluginctl -s myservice restart

Configure

The configure plugin can be used to catch certain events, such as bootup, newwanip and others.

A small sample of a registration is shown below, which registers the functions myplugin_configure() on bootup and myplugin_configure()_vpn on vpn state change where the latter is accepting two (2) parameters at most.

function myplugin_configure()
{
    return array(
        'bootup' => array('myplugin_configure')
        'vpn' => array('myplugin_configure_vpn:2')
    );
}

To list all available hooks, you can use pluginctl without parameters:

pluginctl -c

Below you will find an incomplete list of the most common used events that are handled at the moment:

Event	When
earlybootup	Early in bootup process, before normal services are started (things like ssh and the webconfigurator use this spot)
bootup	Bootup, normal legacy service configuration, when not using the rc(8) system (for example: unbound, ntpd)
newwanip	Triggered after configuration of a new interface address, expects a maximum of two positional parameters ($verbose and $interface).
monitor	Executed when there are changes that involve (dpinger) gateway monitoring.

pluginctl can also be used to trigger a specific event, such as:

pluginctl -c monitor

Firewall

To register firewall rules, create a function called <plugin>_firewall(), this will pass a plugin object you can use to generate new firewall rules.

A very simplified example of such a rule is included below:

function myplugin_firewall(\OPNsense\Firewall\Plugin $fw) {
    $fw->registerFilterRule(500000, array("direction" => "in", "protocol" => "udp", "to_port" => 9999));
}

configctl can be used to reload the firewall and test your plugin:

configctl filter reload

This will generate a rule like (in /tmp/rules.debug):

pass in quick proto udp from {any} to {any} port {9999}

Interface

To register new (virtual) interfaces, create a function called <plugin>_interfaces(), which should return a named array containing the unique interface name as key (enc0 for ipsec for example).

Every item should contain the following properties:

Property	Syntax	Description
enable	boolean	interface enabled, if so it will be saved in the config
descr	text	User readable description
networks	array, [network, mask]	list of named arrays containing remote networks
type	text	“none”
if	text	physical interface (e.g. enc0)
virtual	boolean	Virtual interface, true/false

Example:

function myplugin_interfaces()
{
    global $config;

    $interfaces = array();
    if (isset($config['myplugin']['enable'])) {
        $oic = array("enable" => true);
        $oic['if'] = 'tun0';
        $oic['descr'] = 'myplugin';
        $oic['type'] = "none";
        $oic['virtual'] = true;
        $oic['networks'] = array();
        $interfaces['tun0'] = $oic;
    }

    return $interfaces;
}

Syslog

To register syslog targets, the <plugin>_syslog() function should return a structure containing targets and definitions.

function myplugin_syslog()
{
    $logfacilities = array();
    $logfacilities['myplugin'] = array(
        'facility' => array('myplugin'),
    );
    return $logfacilities;
}

Note

As of OPNsense 19.7 Syslog-NG is included in our base system, when not using circular logs, these files will only be used to identify applications for custom syslog remote targets in System->Settings->Logging / targets.

To test if a service registration functions properly, just restart the syslog facility:

pluginctl -s syslogd restart

Note

In order to define local targets for Syslog-NG you can just add local filters which will be collected into one large syslog configuration. The readme on GitHub describes the process. When running into issues, always make sure to manually restart syslog-ng first (service syslog-ng restart), definition errors won’t be written into any log.

XMLRPC (HA) sync

When a configuration section should be exposed to High Availability sync, you can use the xmlrpc plugin hook.

If a plugin exposes a configuration section to ha sync, it can be enabled separately in the synchronization settings System->High Availability->Settings.

A simple example to expose the configuration section Myplugin within the OPNsense xml path looks like this:

function myplugin_xmlrpc_sync()
{
    $result = array();
    $result[] = array(
        'description' => gettext('My Plugin'),
        'section' => 'OPNsense.Myplugin',
        'id' => 'myplugin',
    );
    return $result;
}

Note

If your plugin depends on other components in the system, make sure you enable synchronization for those as well.