monitoring openvpn

Skaperen

i want to monitor my openvpn server for any failure modes, including those that openvpn cannot detect. some links may not be up because the remote is not up or not trying to connect (but could be up, so ping won't tell me much). is there a way to see a live list of what remotes have connected? with that i could ping the remotes and see if i get a reply within a designated time period. i don't know, yet, how best to deal with a partial outage, but if there is a full outage, i can either restart openvpn or reboot the host (if N restarts have been tried and the problem has not improved ... maybe a local network issue). clearly, links not intended to be up should not affect any recovery efforts.

or are there standard ways to do this, or anything built into openvpn. if any monitoring packages i want to limit this to FOSS.

TinCanTech

Skaperen wrote is there a way to see a live list of what remotes have connected?

--status

Or you can write your own scripts using --up, --client-connect etc .. (like I did, called status3)

Skaperen wrote i want to monitor my openvpn server for any failure modes

You want to rewrite --keepalive ?

Skaperen wrote including those that openvpn cannot detect

Like what ?

Skaperen

i have, a while back, seen tunnels appear to be blackholed. i logged into both sides which had the interface configured and running. but all traffic routed to the tunnel just never showed up at the other end. no rejections like i would get if i took the tunnel down. looking at the physical interfaces simply saw no openvp traffic at all. i didn't have time to investigate more and just rebooted both hosts. in a few minutes all was back to normal.

jayeshroshan

hey ,
OpenVPN-display is a easy python software to generate html that shows the status of an OpenVPN server, which include all present day connections. It uses the OpenVPN management console. It normally runs on the same host as the OpenVPN server, however it does no longer always want to.
hope this helps you !
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