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I'm developing a website for managing OpenVPN users with Django framework. But I need to know is there any way to extract active users from OpenVPN? My server is running Ubuntu 12.04.
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I'm developing a website for managing OpenVPN users with Django framework. But I need to know is there any way to extract active users from OpenVPN? My server is running Ubuntu 12.04.
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I'm developing a website for managing OpenVPN users with Django framework. But I need to know is there any way to extract active users from OpenVPN? My server is running Ubuntu 12.04.
openvpn
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I'm developing a website for managing OpenVPN users with Django framework. But I need to know is there any way to extract active users from OpenVPN? My server is running Ubuntu 12.04.
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There should be a status log you can look at to show you, mine is, for examle:
cat /etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.log
EDIT:
As an alternative, adding the flag --management IP port [pw-file] or adding that same directive to your server.conf, for example:
management localhost 7505
This would allow you to telnet to that port and offer you a list of commands to run:
telnet localhost 7505
help
edited Mar 28 '16 at 12:17
wazoox
4,88142249
answered Feb 2 '14 at 3:05
c4urselfc4urself
3,14521631
Thanks but is there any other way not to watch for file changes? For example a library that lists connected users?
– Hamid FzM
Feb 2 '14 at 15:18
1
@HamidFzM not sure about a library, you can use the management interface I added as an edit; please don't use an IP other than localhost as it would surely be a detriment to your security
– c4urself
Feb 2 '14 at 17:05
@c4urself, my output for the .log is: bit.ly/1ORnsYp Where can I see the connected users? Is it possible to see the ips assigned to them via this .log?
– Maxim V. Pavlov
Jul 30 '15 at 19:21
@MaximV.Pavlov looks like no one is connected in your case. Yes, IP addresses are shown.
– c4urself
Aug 12 '15 at 8:09
1
/etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.logdidn't work for me on Debian, it never changed, instead/var/run/openvpn/server.statusdid worked perfectly.
– Nelson
Oct 1 '17 at 8:20
add a comment |
To complete @sekrett answer :
killall -USR2 openvpn ; tail -f /var/log/syslog
It will keep running, it's not a "regular" kill, just a request to print some stats.
Displayed statistics are very readable.
Sample output :
Oct 14 07:34:14 vpn2 openvpn[20959]: Updated,Fri Oct 14 07:34:14 2016
Oct 14 07:34:14 vpn2 openvpn[20959]: Common Name,Real Address,Bytes Received,Bytes Sent,Connected Since
Oct 14 07:26:26 vpn2 openvpn[20959]:
10.8.0.132,hostname1,213.219.XXX.XXX:63765,Fri Oct 14 07:25:01 2016
Oct 14 07:26:26 vpn2 openvpn[20959]:
10.8.0.242,hostname2,213.219.XXX.XXX:62416,Sun Sep 25 03:49:19 2016
edited Feb 19 '18 at 13:31
Hossein Vatani
1185
answered Oct 14 '16 at 5:33
MichaelCMichaelC
16114
Thanks for improvement. My answer was right but it lacks an example and explanation. :)
– sekrett
Dec 6 '17 at 16:45
add a comment |
I got the same need myself and the easiest solution I found out was to use as mentioned telnet to connect to the management interface(you'll have to add :management localhost 6666, in the server config file)
.
To get the exact number of client you can do :
- telnet localhost 6666
- status
Then you'll get lot of logs :
10.9.10.11,test-docker,52.58.48.98:56859,Wed May 4 09:37:34 2016
10.9.7.45,test-docker,52.58.156.80:38774,Wed May 4 09:36:59 2016
10.9.1.103,test-docker,52.58.161.230:52201,Wed May 4 09:35:47 2016
GLOBAL STATS
Max bcast/mcast queue length,0
END
>CLIENT:ESTABLISHED,19845
>CLIENT:ENV,n_clients=19361
>CLIENT:ENV,time_unix=1462357164
- look for => >CLIENT:ENV,n_clients=19361
In my case since I have a very large number of client, using the log file is definitely not very practical.
answered May 4 '16 at 10:24
FlorentFlorent
14315
your status command helped me, thx
– Mohammed Noureldin
Sep 24 '16 at 15:57
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You can also send usr2 signal to openvpn process to make it write statistic information to syslog. This is safe, you don't need to reboot in case you did not enable management interface before.
answered Jul 6 '16 at 15:13
sekrettsekrett
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can you write a command for this?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jun 28 '18 at 19:54
@MichaelC wrote it:killall -USR2 openvpn. Then watch the logs. It might be/var/log/syslogor/var/log/messagesdepending on distro.
– sekrett
Jun 29 '18 at 11:11
but it doesn't kill openvpn?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 13 '18 at 15:46
killcommand can send different signals, USR2 will not kill, it is just a signal. You can see a list here: linux.org/threads/kill-signals-and-commands-revised.11625 or by runningkill -l.
– sekrett
Jul 13 '18 at 16:39
I just tried it. It doesn't give the info about connected clients count
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 16 '18 at 20:49
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Just use sacli with the following command. This will list the connected VPN clients.
/usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/sacli VPNSummary
{
"n_clients": 15
}
To see all the IPs use this option.
./sacli VPNStatus
answered Aug 17 '18 at 15:11
BouncingSolesBouncingSoles
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There should be a status log you can look at to show you, mine is, for examle:
cat /etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.log
EDIT:
As an alternative, adding the flag --management IP port [pw-file] or adding that same directive to your server.conf, for example:
management localhost 7505
This would allow you to telnet to that port and offer you a list of commands to run:
telnet localhost 7505
help
edited Mar 28 '16 at 12:17
wazoox
4,88142249
answered Feb 2 '14 at 3:05
c4urselfc4urself
3,14521631
Thanks but is there any other way not to watch for file changes? For example a library that lists connected users?
– Hamid FzM
Feb 2 '14 at 15:18
1
@HamidFzM not sure about a library, you can use the management interface I added as an edit; please don't use an IP other than localhost as it would surely be a detriment to your security
– c4urself
Feb 2 '14 at 17:05
@c4urself, my output for the .log is: bit.ly/1ORnsYp Where can I see the connected users? Is it possible to see the ips assigned to them via this .log?
– Maxim V. Pavlov
Jul 30 '15 at 19:21
@MaximV.Pavlov looks like no one is connected in your case. Yes, IP addresses are shown.
– c4urself
Aug 12 '15 at 8:09
1
/etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.logdidn't work for me on Debian, it never changed, instead/var/run/openvpn/server.statusdid worked perfectly.
– Nelson
Oct 1 '17 at 8:20
add a comment |
There should be a status log you can look at to show you, mine is, for examle:
cat /etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.log
EDIT:
As an alternative, adding the flag --management IP port [pw-file] or adding that same directive to your server.conf, for example:
management localhost 7505
This would allow you to telnet to that port and offer you a list of commands to run:
telnet localhost 7505
help
edited Mar 28 '16 at 12:17
wazoox
4,88142249
answered Feb 2 '14 at 3:05
c4urselfc4urself
3,14521631
Thanks but is there any other way not to watch for file changes? For example a library that lists connected users?
– Hamid FzM
Feb 2 '14 at 15:18
1
@HamidFzM not sure about a library, you can use the management interface I added as an edit; please don't use an IP other than localhost as it would surely be a detriment to your security
– c4urself
Feb 2 '14 at 17:05
@c4urself, my output for the .log is: bit.ly/1ORnsYp Where can I see the connected users? Is it possible to see the ips assigned to them via this .log?
– Maxim V. Pavlov
Jul 30 '15 at 19:21
@MaximV.Pavlov looks like no one is connected in your case. Yes, IP addresses are shown.
– c4urself
Aug 12 '15 at 8:09
1
/etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.logdidn't work for me on Debian, it never changed, instead/var/run/openvpn/server.statusdid worked perfectly.
– Nelson
Oct 1 '17 at 8:20
add a comment |
There should be a status log you can look at to show you, mine is, for examle:
cat /etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.log
EDIT:
As an alternative, adding the flag --management IP port [pw-file] or adding that same directive to your server.conf, for example:
management localhost 7505
This would allow you to telnet to that port and offer you a list of commands to run:
telnet localhost 7505
help
edited Mar 28 '16 at 12:17
wazoox
4,88142249
answered Feb 2 '14 at 3:05
c4urselfc4urself
3,14521631
There should be a status log you can look at to show you, mine is, for examle:
cat /etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.log
EDIT:
As an alternative, adding the flag --management IP port [pw-file] or adding that same directive to your server.conf, for example:
management localhost 7505
This would allow you to telnet to that port and offer you a list of commands to run:
telnet localhost 7505
help
edited Mar 28 '16 at 12:17
wazoox
4,88142249
answered Feb 2 '14 at 3:05
c4urselfc4urself
3,14521631
edited Mar 28 '16 at 12:17
wazoox
4,88142249
edited Mar 28 '16 at 12:17
wazoox
4,88142249
edited Mar 28 '16 at 12:17
wazoox
4,88142249
4,88142249
answered Feb 2 '14 at 3:05
c4urselfc4urself
3,14521631
answered Feb 2 '14 at 3:05
c4urselfc4urself
3,14521631
answered Feb 2 '14 at 3:05
c4urselfc4urself
3,14521631
3,14521631
Thanks but is there any other way not to watch for file changes? For example a library that lists connected users?
– Hamid FzM
Feb 2 '14 at 15:18
1
@HamidFzM not sure about a library, you can use the management interface I added as an edit; please don't use an IP other than localhost as it would surely be a detriment to your security
– c4urself
Feb 2 '14 at 17:05
@c4urself, my output for the .log is: bit.ly/1ORnsYp Where can I see the connected users? Is it possible to see the ips assigned to them via this .log?
– Maxim V. Pavlov
Jul 30 '15 at 19:21
@MaximV.Pavlov looks like no one is connected in your case. Yes, IP addresses are shown.
– c4urself
Aug 12 '15 at 8:09
1
/etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.logdidn't work for me on Debian, it never changed, instead/var/run/openvpn/server.statusdid worked perfectly.
– Nelson
Oct 1 '17 at 8:20
add a comment |
Thanks but is there any other way not to watch for file changes? For example a library that lists connected users?
– Hamid FzM
Feb 2 '14 at 15:18
1
@HamidFzM not sure about a library, you can use the management interface I added as an edit; please don't use an IP other than localhost as it would surely be a detriment to your security
– c4urself
Feb 2 '14 at 17:05
@c4urself, my output for the .log is: bit.ly/1ORnsYp Where can I see the connected users? Is it possible to see the ips assigned to them via this .log?
– Maxim V. Pavlov
Jul 30 '15 at 19:21
@MaximV.Pavlov looks like no one is connected in your case. Yes, IP addresses are shown.
– c4urself
Aug 12 '15 at 8:09
1
/etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.logdidn't work for me on Debian, it never changed, instead/var/run/openvpn/server.statusdid worked perfectly.
– Nelson
Oct 1 '17 at 8:20
Thanks but is there any other way not to watch for file changes? For example a library that lists connected users?
– Hamid FzM
Feb 2 '14 at 15:18
Thanks but is there any other way not to watch for file changes? For example a library that lists connected users?
– Hamid FzM
Feb 2 '14 at 15:18
1
1
@HamidFzM not sure about a library, you can use the management interface I added as an edit; please don't use an IP other than localhost as it would surely be a detriment to your security
– c4urself
Feb 2 '14 at 17:05
@HamidFzM not sure about a library, you can use the management interface I added as an edit; please don't use an IP other than localhost as it would surely be a detriment to your security
– c4urself
Feb 2 '14 at 17:05
@c4urself, my output for the .log is: bit.ly/1ORnsYp Where can I see the connected users? Is it possible to see the ips assigned to them via this .log?
– Maxim V. Pavlov
Jul 30 '15 at 19:21
@c4urself, my output for the .log is: bit.ly/1ORnsYp Where can I see the connected users? Is it possible to see the ips assigned to them via this .log?
– Maxim V. Pavlov
Jul 30 '15 at 19:21
@MaximV.Pavlov looks like no one is connected in your case. Yes, IP addresses are shown.
– c4urself
Aug 12 '15 at 8:09
@MaximV.Pavlov looks like no one is connected in your case. Yes, IP addresses are shown.
– c4urself
Aug 12 '15 at 8:09
1
1
/etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.log didn't work for me on Debian, it never changed, instead /var/run/openvpn/server.status did worked perfectly.– Nelson
Oct 1 '17 at 8:20
/etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.log didn't work for me on Debian, it never changed, instead /var/run/openvpn/server.status did worked perfectly.– Nelson
Oct 1 '17 at 8:20
add a comment |
To complete @sekrett answer :
killall -USR2 openvpn ; tail -f /var/log/syslog
It will keep running, it's not a "regular" kill, just a request to print some stats.
Displayed statistics are very readable.
Sample output :
Oct 14 07:34:14 vpn2 openvpn[20959]: Updated,Fri Oct 14 07:34:14 2016
Oct 14 07:34:14 vpn2 openvpn[20959]: Common Name,Real Address,Bytes Received,Bytes Sent,Connected Since
Oct 14 07:26:26 vpn2 openvpn[20959]:
10.8.0.132,hostname1,213.219.XXX.XXX:63765,Fri Oct 14 07:25:01 2016
Oct 14 07:26:26 vpn2 openvpn[20959]:
10.8.0.242,hostname2,213.219.XXX.XXX:62416,Sun Sep 25 03:49:19 2016
edited Feb 19 '18 at 13:31
Hossein Vatani
1185
answered Oct 14 '16 at 5:33
MichaelCMichaelC
16114
Thanks for improvement. My answer was right but it lacks an example and explanation. :)
– sekrett
Dec 6 '17 at 16:45
add a comment |
To complete @sekrett answer :
killall -USR2 openvpn ; tail -f /var/log/syslog
It will keep running, it's not a "regular" kill, just a request to print some stats.
Displayed statistics are very readable.
Sample output :
Oct 14 07:34:14 vpn2 openvpn[20959]: Updated,Fri Oct 14 07:34:14 2016
Oct 14 07:34:14 vpn2 openvpn[20959]: Common Name,Real Address,Bytes Received,Bytes Sent,Connected Since
Oct 14 07:26:26 vpn2 openvpn[20959]:
10.8.0.132,hostname1,213.219.XXX.XXX:63765,Fri Oct 14 07:25:01 2016
Oct 14 07:26:26 vpn2 openvpn[20959]:
10.8.0.242,hostname2,213.219.XXX.XXX:62416,Sun Sep 25 03:49:19 2016
edited Feb 19 '18 at 13:31
Hossein Vatani
1185
answered Oct 14 '16 at 5:33
MichaelCMichaelC
16114
Thanks for improvement. My answer was right but it lacks an example and explanation. :)
– sekrett
Dec 6 '17 at 16:45
add a comment |
To complete @sekrett answer :
killall -USR2 openvpn ; tail -f /var/log/syslog
It will keep running, it's not a "regular" kill, just a request to print some stats.
Displayed statistics are very readable.
Sample output :
Oct 14 07:34:14 vpn2 openvpn[20959]: Updated,Fri Oct 14 07:34:14 2016
Oct 14 07:34:14 vpn2 openvpn[20959]: Common Name,Real Address,Bytes Received,Bytes Sent,Connected Since
Oct 14 07:26:26 vpn2 openvpn[20959]:
10.8.0.132,hostname1,213.219.XXX.XXX:63765,Fri Oct 14 07:25:01 2016
Oct 14 07:26:26 vpn2 openvpn[20959]:
10.8.0.242,hostname2,213.219.XXX.XXX:62416,Sun Sep 25 03:49:19 2016
edited Feb 19 '18 at 13:31
Hossein Vatani
1185
answered Oct 14 '16 at 5:33
MichaelCMichaelC
16114
To complete @sekrett answer :
killall -USR2 openvpn ; tail -f /var/log/syslog
It will keep running, it's not a "regular" kill, just a request to print some stats.
Displayed statistics are very readable.
Sample output :
Oct 14 07:34:14 vpn2 openvpn[20959]: Updated,Fri Oct 14 07:34:14 2016
Oct 14 07:34:14 vpn2 openvpn[20959]: Common Name,Real Address,Bytes Received,Bytes Sent,Connected Since
Oct 14 07:26:26 vpn2 openvpn[20959]:
10.8.0.132,hostname1,213.219.XXX.XXX:63765,Fri Oct 14 07:25:01 2016
Oct 14 07:26:26 vpn2 openvpn[20959]:
10.8.0.242,hostname2,213.219.XXX.XXX:62416,Sun Sep 25 03:49:19 2016
edited Feb 19 '18 at 13:31
Hossein Vatani
1185
answered Oct 14 '16 at 5:33
MichaelCMichaelC
16114
edited Feb 19 '18 at 13:31
Hossein Vatani
1185
edited Feb 19 '18 at 13:31
Hossein Vatani
1185
edited Feb 19 '18 at 13:31
Hossein Vatani
1185
1185
answered Oct 14 '16 at 5:33
MichaelCMichaelC
16114
answered Oct 14 '16 at 5:33
MichaelCMichaelC
16114
answered Oct 14 '16 at 5:33
MichaelCMichaelC
16114
16114
Thanks for improvement. My answer was right but it lacks an example and explanation. :)
– sekrett
Dec 6 '17 at 16:45
add a comment |
Thanks for improvement. My answer was right but it lacks an example and explanation. :)
– sekrett
Dec 6 '17 at 16:45
Thanks for improvement. My answer was right but it lacks an example and explanation. :)
– sekrett
Dec 6 '17 at 16:45
Thanks for improvement. My answer was right but it lacks an example and explanation. :)
– sekrett
Dec 6 '17 at 16:45
add a comment |
I got the same need myself and the easiest solution I found out was to use as mentioned telnet to connect to the management interface(you'll have to add :management localhost 6666, in the server config file)
.
To get the exact number of client you can do :
- telnet localhost 6666
- status
Then you'll get lot of logs :
10.9.10.11,test-docker,52.58.48.98:56859,Wed May 4 09:37:34 2016
10.9.7.45,test-docker,52.58.156.80:38774,Wed May 4 09:36:59 2016
10.9.1.103,test-docker,52.58.161.230:52201,Wed May 4 09:35:47 2016
GLOBAL STATS
Max bcast/mcast queue length,0
END
>CLIENT:ESTABLISHED,19845
>CLIENT:ENV,n_clients=19361
>CLIENT:ENV,time_unix=1462357164
- look for => >CLIENT:ENV,n_clients=19361
In my case since I have a very large number of client, using the log file is definitely not very practical.
answered May 4 '16 at 10:24
FlorentFlorent
14315
your status command helped me, thx
– Mohammed Noureldin
Sep 24 '16 at 15:57
add a comment |
I got the same need myself and the easiest solution I found out was to use as mentioned telnet to connect to the management interface(you'll have to add :management localhost 6666, in the server config file)
.
To get the exact number of client you can do :
- telnet localhost 6666
- status
Then you'll get lot of logs :
10.9.10.11,test-docker,52.58.48.98:56859,Wed May 4 09:37:34 2016
10.9.7.45,test-docker,52.58.156.80:38774,Wed May 4 09:36:59 2016
10.9.1.103,test-docker,52.58.161.230:52201,Wed May 4 09:35:47 2016
GLOBAL STATS
Max bcast/mcast queue length,0
END
>CLIENT:ESTABLISHED,19845
>CLIENT:ENV,n_clients=19361
>CLIENT:ENV,time_unix=1462357164
- look for => >CLIENT:ENV,n_clients=19361
In my case since I have a very large number of client, using the log file is definitely not very practical.
answered May 4 '16 at 10:24
FlorentFlorent
14315
your status command helped me, thx
– Mohammed Noureldin
Sep 24 '16 at 15:57
add a comment |
I got the same need myself and the easiest solution I found out was to use as mentioned telnet to connect to the management interface(you'll have to add :management localhost 6666, in the server config file)
.
To get the exact number of client you can do :
- telnet localhost 6666
- status
Then you'll get lot of logs :
10.9.10.11,test-docker,52.58.48.98:56859,Wed May 4 09:37:34 2016
10.9.7.45,test-docker,52.58.156.80:38774,Wed May 4 09:36:59 2016
10.9.1.103,test-docker,52.58.161.230:52201,Wed May 4 09:35:47 2016
GLOBAL STATS
Max bcast/mcast queue length,0
END
>CLIENT:ESTABLISHED,19845
>CLIENT:ENV,n_clients=19361
>CLIENT:ENV,time_unix=1462357164
- look for => >CLIENT:ENV,n_clients=19361
In my case since I have a very large number of client, using the log file is definitely not very practical.
answered May 4 '16 at 10:24
FlorentFlorent
14315
I got the same need myself and the easiest solution I found out was to use as mentioned telnet to connect to the management interface(you'll have to add :management localhost 6666, in the server config file)
.
To get the exact number of client you can do :
- telnet localhost 6666
- status
Then you'll get lot of logs :
10.9.10.11,test-docker,52.58.48.98:56859,Wed May 4 09:37:34 2016
10.9.7.45,test-docker,52.58.156.80:38774,Wed May 4 09:36:59 2016
10.9.1.103,test-docker,52.58.161.230:52201,Wed May 4 09:35:47 2016
GLOBAL STATS
Max bcast/mcast queue length,0
END
>CLIENT:ESTABLISHED,19845
>CLIENT:ENV,n_clients=19361
>CLIENT:ENV,time_unix=1462357164
- look for => >CLIENT:ENV,n_clients=19361
In my case since I have a very large number of client, using the log file is definitely not very practical.
answered May 4 '16 at 10:24
FlorentFlorent
14315
answered May 4 '16 at 10:24
FlorentFlorent
14315
answered May 4 '16 at 10:24
FlorentFlorent
14315
answered May 4 '16 at 10:24
FlorentFlorent
14315
14315
your status command helped me, thx
– Mohammed Noureldin
Sep 24 '16 at 15:57
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your status command helped me, thx
– Mohammed Noureldin
Sep 24 '16 at 15:57
your status command helped me, thx
– Mohammed Noureldin
Sep 24 '16 at 15:57
your status command helped me, thx
– Mohammed Noureldin
Sep 24 '16 at 15:57
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You can also send usr2 signal to openvpn process to make it write statistic information to syslog. This is safe, you don't need to reboot in case you did not enable management interface before.
answered Jul 6 '16 at 15:13
sekrettsekrett
1314
can you write a command for this?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jun 28 '18 at 19:54
@MichaelC wrote it:killall -USR2 openvpn. Then watch the logs. It might be/var/log/syslogor/var/log/messagesdepending on distro.
– sekrett
Jun 29 '18 at 11:11
but it doesn't kill openvpn?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 13 '18 at 15:46
killcommand can send different signals, USR2 will not kill, it is just a signal. You can see a list here: linux.org/threads/kill-signals-and-commands-revised.11625 or by runningkill -l.
– sekrett
Jul 13 '18 at 16:39
I just tried it. It doesn't give the info about connected clients count
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 16 '18 at 20:49
|
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You can also send usr2 signal to openvpn process to make it write statistic information to syslog. This is safe, you don't need to reboot in case you did not enable management interface before.
answered Jul 6 '16 at 15:13
sekrettsekrett
1314
can you write a command for this?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jun 28 '18 at 19:54
@MichaelC wrote it:killall -USR2 openvpn. Then watch the logs. It might be/var/log/syslogor/var/log/messagesdepending on distro.
– sekrett
Jun 29 '18 at 11:11
but it doesn't kill openvpn?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 13 '18 at 15:46
killcommand can send different signals, USR2 will not kill, it is just a signal. You can see a list here: linux.org/threads/kill-signals-and-commands-revised.11625 or by runningkill -l.
– sekrett
Jul 13 '18 at 16:39
I just tried it. It doesn't give the info about connected clients count
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 16 '18 at 20:49
|
show 1 more comment
You can also send usr2 signal to openvpn process to make it write statistic information to syslog. This is safe, you don't need to reboot in case you did not enable management interface before.
answered Jul 6 '16 at 15:13
sekrettsekrett
1314
You can also send usr2 signal to openvpn process to make it write statistic information to syslog. This is safe, you don't need to reboot in case you did not enable management interface before.
answered Jul 6 '16 at 15:13
sekrettsekrett
1314
answered Jul 6 '16 at 15:13
sekrettsekrett
1314
answered Jul 6 '16 at 15:13
sekrettsekrett
1314
answered Jul 6 '16 at 15:13
sekrettsekrett
1314
1314
can you write a command for this?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jun 28 '18 at 19:54
@MichaelC wrote it:killall -USR2 openvpn. Then watch the logs. It might be/var/log/syslogor/var/log/messagesdepending on distro.
– sekrett
Jun 29 '18 at 11:11
but it doesn't kill openvpn?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 13 '18 at 15:46
killcommand can send different signals, USR2 will not kill, it is just a signal. You can see a list here: linux.org/threads/kill-signals-and-commands-revised.11625 or by runningkill -l.
– sekrett
Jul 13 '18 at 16:39
I just tried it. It doesn't give the info about connected clients count
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 16 '18 at 20:49
|
show 1 more comment
can you write a command for this?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jun 28 '18 at 19:54
@MichaelC wrote it:killall -USR2 openvpn. Then watch the logs. It might be/var/log/syslogor/var/log/messagesdepending on distro.
– sekrett
Jun 29 '18 at 11:11
but it doesn't kill openvpn?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 13 '18 at 15:46
killcommand can send different signals, USR2 will not kill, it is just a signal. You can see a list here: linux.org/threads/kill-signals-and-commands-revised.11625 or by runningkill -l.
– sekrett
Jul 13 '18 at 16:39
I just tried it. It doesn't give the info about connected clients count
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 16 '18 at 20:49
can you write a command for this?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jun 28 '18 at 19:54
can you write a command for this?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jun 28 '18 at 19:54
@MichaelC wrote it:
killall -USR2 openvpn. Then watch the logs. It might be /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages depending on distro.– sekrett
Jun 29 '18 at 11:11
@MichaelC wrote it:
killall -USR2 openvpn. Then watch the logs. It might be /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages depending on distro.– sekrett
Jun 29 '18 at 11:11
but it doesn't kill openvpn?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 13 '18 at 15:46
but it doesn't kill openvpn?
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 13 '18 at 15:46
kill command can send different signals, USR2 will not kill, it is just a signal. You can see a list here: linux.org/threads/kill-signals-and-commands-revised.11625 or by running kill -l.– sekrett
Jul 13 '18 at 16:39
kill command can send different signals, USR2 will not kill, it is just a signal. You can see a list here: linux.org/threads/kill-signals-and-commands-revised.11625 or by running kill -l.– sekrett
Jul 13 '18 at 16:39
I just tried it. It doesn't give the info about connected clients count
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 16 '18 at 20:49
I just tried it. It doesn't give the info about connected clients count
– Shayan_Aryan
Jul 16 '18 at 20:49
|
show 1 more comment
Just use sacli with the following command. This will list the connected VPN clients.
/usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/sacli VPNSummary
{
"n_clients": 15
}
To see all the IPs use this option.
./sacli VPNStatus
answered Aug 17 '18 at 15:11
BouncingSolesBouncingSoles
113
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Just use sacli with the following command. This will list the connected VPN clients.
/usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/sacli VPNSummary
{
"n_clients": 15
}
To see all the IPs use this option.
./sacli VPNStatus
answered Aug 17 '18 at 15:11
BouncingSolesBouncingSoles
113
add a comment |
Just use sacli with the following command. This will list the connected VPN clients.
/usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/sacli VPNSummary
{
"n_clients": 15
}
To see all the IPs use this option.
./sacli VPNStatus
answered Aug 17 '18 at 15:11
BouncingSolesBouncingSoles
113
Just use sacli with the following command. This will list the connected VPN clients.
/usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/sacli VPNSummary
{
"n_clients": 15
}
To see all the IPs use this option.
./sacli VPNStatus
answered Aug 17 '18 at 15:11
BouncingSolesBouncingSoles
113
edited Sep 17 '18 at 18:38
answered Aug 17 '18 at 15:11
BouncingSolesBouncingSoles
113
answered Aug 17 '18 at 15:11
BouncingSolesBouncingSoles
113
answered Aug 17 '18 at 15:11
BouncingSolesBouncingSoles
113
113
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