[SOLVED] howto know status of openvpn client ?

[tushar.sharma]

Hello All,

howto know status of openvpn client connected to server.
in openvpn --status when done with server side it shows status of all connected client,
but if I am running as client mode and connecting to server in daemon mode
how can i know status of client ( what if there are many ?) ? like in --status ?

Thanking YOu
Tushar

[janjust]

you can use --status or at least the management interface on the client side as well - this gives you a programmatic way to check if a client is up and running.

[tushar.sharma]

Dear Jan Just,

--status on client side shows like this

Status
OPen VPN STATISTICS
Updated Fri Feb 10:43
TUN/TAP read bytes 1231
TUN/TAP write bytes 1072
Auth read bytes xxxx
END

I don't know to parse this whether client is connected or not.

and using management interface i need to telnet to particular, I want that whenever client succesfully authenticates its status something like Peer Connection With 192.168.103.61 Initiated to be stored in file so that i can retrieve it any time.

can i use ?
--client-connect script
--route-up



Thanking You
Tushar

[tushar.sharma]

i have even tried changing status-version 1,2,3 but same results.

Thanking You
Tushar

[tushar.sharma]

Do i need to grep output from log files ??

Thanking You
Tushar

[janjust]

TUN/TAP read bytes 1231
TUN/TAP write bytes 1072

the fact that bytes are read from and written to the tun/tap adapter is an indication that the VPN is functional; other than that there is no (easy) method to see whether the VPN is active; your best bet is to simply ping the VPN server IP.

[tushar.sharma]

Dear JanJust,


I got some info regarding use of management client to display status of client on GUI interface, I didnt exactly
got what they actually want to convey but i will try other way and will try to look in more detail what you have suggested.

[tushar.sharma]

Hey JanJust, i have determine whether client is connected or not using management interface
and state command in that. I have opened tcp socket on management interface and determine status of client using state command.

Still It is giving only whether client is connected or not, and i want time too i.e from when since client is connected. This information is even not there in status command.

From where can i get whether particular client instance is connected and time since when it is connected. ?

Thanking You
tushar

[janjust]

you can only get that information by parsing the client connect logs; alternatively you could use an 'up' and 'down' script to launch an external program which records the date&time.

[tushar.sharma]

Dear JanJust,

Done that using up and down script as suggest by Dazo on irc channel..Thanks for replying.

Thanking You,
Tushar