OpenVPN Client restarts

Harmanoff

Ok bare with me as I dont' have the greatest VPN knowledge. But we have an OpenVPN Client on our server and for the past year or so not 100% as I just recently started this new job and since I have Computer/Network Credentials I'm tasked with fixing this. The Client restarts itself each night and the datebase company we use to connect to our server and download our data can't till we get in to reconnect it. Any suggestions? The Server is up 24/7 and doesn't reboot itself even after updates we do that manually, or at the end of each week depending on the situations. Anyway ive checked the config file but not sure what to look for as to why. The logs only show from the morning till now, nothing past 8:30am so can't see what happens I guess there...anyway I know rambling on!! Thanks in advance

Version is OpenVPN Gui V7

The Johan

Your story isn't entirely clear on what's going on, but I suspect you are using an openvpn open source client to connect to an OpenVPN Access Server, and that the default 24 hour timeout on authenticated sessions is kicking you off. Perhaps. Maybe. Please provide more information.

Harmanoff

The OpenVPN Gui Icon in the system try that is normal green when its connected...its red in the morning when they get here and have to reestablish the connection to them so they can download the data needed each morning...if it has a 24hr timeout period where can I change that? Can I download the new version 10 and install over the top and see if that works?

The Johan

Are you connecting to OpenVPN Access Server? This only applies there.

You can either choose to use an autologin profile or to adjust the session timeout.
https://docs.openvpn.net/docs/access-server/openvpn-access-server-command-line-tools.html#session-management

Again, this only applies if you're using OpenVPN Access Server.

Harmanoff

Yea I have no clue...my boss just came up to me and said hey you know anything about VPN's. I responded sorta but not much. He said well fix it to where our VPN doesn't disconnect each night. So fix it to where it says connected regardless time of day or how long its been on...