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

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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:

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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.

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[user@host:~] telnet localhost 45678