I need to monitor my OpenVPN connections for issues
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@JaredBusch said:
What would you all recommend to use for monitoring OpenVPN performance?
no experience, but here's what my google-fu turned up
http://serverfault.com/questions/561447/whats-the-best-method-to-monitor-an-openvpn-server -
@Hubtech Nagios.. yeah. I do not have the time to setup and learn how to use that right now.
I have looked at it before. It is a good solution, but I am running into time pressure.
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What kind of issues are you looking for? Connection dropping? Latency? Both? Just trying to get an idea of what the overall goal is.
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@ajstringham Both really.
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Without a tool like Nagios, the only other thing I can think of is something like a couple of continuous ping tests.
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@ajstringham said:
Without a tool like Nagios, the only other thing I can think of is something like a couple of continuous ping tests.
That was the kind of news, I was expecting, but not wanting to hear. I will have to just do some pings for now.
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@JaredBusch said:
@ajstringham said:
Without a tool like Nagios, the only other thing I can think of is something like a couple of continuous ping tests.
That was the kind of news, I was expecting, but not wanting to hear. I will have to just do some pings for now.
You can always use a:
ping -t x.x.x.x >> connection_speed.txtThat will allow you to log it. Just an option. If you open the text file in Notepad++, it will automatically ask you to refresh periodically when it detects the file has changes in it. Just a thought.
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Ping tools will often do the trick.
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Ping Tools and the OpenVPN logs should give you good clues.
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Yeah, there are some programs that do pings under the hood and give you a chart or a cumulative result that are really handy. Could script that too, of course. But ping is the right technical solution at the network layer.
