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    I need to monitor my OpenVPN connections for issues

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    • JaredBusch
      JaredBusch last edited by

      What would you all recommend to use for monitoring OpenVPN performance?

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        A Former User @JaredBusch last edited by

        @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

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        • JaredBusch
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          @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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          • thanksajdotcom
            thanksajdotcom last edited by

            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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            • JaredBusch
              JaredBusch last edited by

              @ajstringham Both really.

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              • thanksajdotcom
                thanksajdotcom last edited by

                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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                • JaredBusch
                  JaredBusch @thanksajdotcom last edited by

                  @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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                  • thanksajdotcom
                    thanksajdotcom @JaredBusch last edited by

                    @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.txt

                    That 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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                    • scottalanmiller
                      scottalanmiller last edited by

                      Ping tools will often do the trick.

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                        A Former User last edited by

                        Ping Tools and the OpenVPN logs should give you good clues.

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                        • scottalanmiller
                          scottalanmiller last edited by

                          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.

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