OpenVPN client list

irashi

Hello! i am inquiring about the community version of OpenVPN v2.2.2
So my issue is that i need a way to see the number of clients connected.
Is there any configuration or any way to type into the command line of OpenVPN to show the number of connected clients?

janjust

add

status /tmp/openvpn-status.log

to the server config and restart the openvpn server process; the file /tmp/openvpn-status.log will now contain info on the connected clients. There is no way to retrieve this info using a command-line option.

dazo

JJK is right ... and --status is one good way. But there is another approach as well, using the --management interface. If you add the following line to your server config:

management 127.0.0.1 45678

Then you can use telnet to access the management interface ... type 'help' and you'll see all you can do there.

[user@host:~] telnet localhost 45678