Zenarmor and community repo (elasticsearch database)

[PaulePils]

Hello,

when I started using OPNsense I went through a lot of tutorials and videos for a basic setup which works quite well. Recently I started to think about IDS/IPS. Many sites recommend Suricata for WAN and Zenarmor for LAN. The WAN site is working (or at least there is no error  )
But Zenarmor says that I already have an elasticsearch database installed (which I haven't). I checked and found out that there is an incompability between the mimugmail-repo and a Zenarmor installation. The community repo is solely used for the Adguard plugin.

Is there a way to use both? Like change Adguard from plugin to "bare metal" installation?

[mimugmail]

You can lock the package and then disable the repo

[cookiemonster]

Also if your number of clients don't require elasticsearch, you can opt out of using it in Zenarmor and get Zenarmor to use sqlite.

[PaulePils]

You can lock the package and then disable the repo

What does "locking" do? If I understand it correctly, I can't update Adguard anymore. Or is the plugin just for the first installation because updates are handled by the GUI?

Also if your number of clients don't require elasticsearch, you can opt out of using it in Zenarmor and get Zenarmor to use sqlite.

It is just for home usage (and out of curiosity  ), so sqlite should suffice, buuut I read that the log is only persistent for 2 days. Is this correct?

[cookiemonster]

It is just for home usage (and out of curiosity  ), so sqlite should suffice, buuut I read that the log is only persistent for 2 days. Is this correct?
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I am using it at a home installation yes. I get the options of 1 hr, 1 day and 1 week with sqlite. Up to 50 devices.
I have limited storage and don't want to run an elasticsearch db on it for this.

[PaulePils]

One week should be fine for my use case. Thanks for the info 

[Tismofied]

You can lock the package and then disable the repo

What does "locking" do? If I understand it correctly, I can't update Adguard anymore. Or is the plugin just for the first installation because updates are handled by the GUI?

What did you end up doing? Did you lock the package? Are you able to update still?
I am in the same boat.

[PaulePils]

I just used sqlite which worked quite well.
But in the meantime a did a complete fresh install of opnsense to better fit my needs