The OpenVPN status file

OpenVPN offers several options to monitor the clients connected to a server. The most commonly used method is using a status file. The OpenVPN status file is continually updated by the OpenVPN process and contains the following information:

• Which clients are connected

• From which IP address the clients are connecting

• The number of bytes each client has received and transferred

• The time at which the client connected

• In addition, the routing table also shows which networks are routed to each client

We modify the client-side routing server configuration file movpn-04-05-server.conf by adding a line to the server configuration:

proto udp
port 1194
dev tun
server 10.200.0.0 255.255.255.0
topology subnet
persist-key
persist-tun
keepalive 10 60

remote-cert-tls client
tls-auth /etc/openvpn/movpn/ta.key 0
dh       /etc/openvpn/movpn/dh2048.pem
ca       /etc/openvpn/movpn/movpn-ca.crt
cert     /etc/openvpn/movpn/server.crt
key      /etc/openvpn/movpn/server.key

user  nobody
group...