openvpn_management¶ ↑

Ruby gem for openVPN (server) management interface interaction.

Note

Please keep in mind that this software is in alpha development stage.

Installation¶ ↑

Via Github, for development¶ ↑

~# git clone git://github.com/dguerri/openvpn_management.git
~# cd openvpn_management
~# bundle install
~# rake install

Via Rubygems¶ ↑

~# gem install openvpn_management --pre

Usage¶ ↑

Sample code¶ ↑

require 'Rubygems'
require 'openvpn_management'
require 'pp'

# Assuming you've a VPN server with management interface on TCP port 1194 protected with
# password 'mypassword'
vpn1 = OpenvpnManagement.new :host => 'localhost', :port => 1194, :password => 'mypassword'
pp vpn1.version
pp vpn1.stats
pp vpn1.status

pp vpn1.status[:clients].keys
pp vpn1.status[:routes].keys

vpn1.destroy

Sample output¶ ↑

# vpn1.version
"OpenVPN Version: OpenVPN 2.x-master x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [eurephia] [MH] [PF_INET6] [IPv6 payload 20110522-1 (2.2.0)] built on Sep 15 2011\nManagement Version: 1\nEND\n"
# vpn1.stats
{:clients=>1, :bytes_input=>1335293, :bytes_output=>140845}
# vpn1.status
{:clients=>
 {"l2vpn_client_1_1_1"=>
   [{:real_address=>"217.72.97.51:37698",
     :bytes_received=>"1438510",
     :bytes_sent=>"1456452",
     :connected_since=>"Mon Mar  5 16:52:40 2012"}]},
:routes=>
 {"e4:ce:8f:26:5f:8e"=>
   {:real_address=>"217.72.97.51:37698",
    :last_ref=>"Tue Mar  6 09:51:18 2012",
    :common_name=>"l2vpn_client_1_1_1"},
  "dc:2b:61:29:d2:d0"=>
   {:real_address=>"217.72.97.51:37698",
    :last_ref=>"Tue Mar  6 09:51:33 2012",
    :common_name=>"l2vpn_client_1_1_1"}}}
   # vpn1.status[:clients].keys
   ["l2vpn_client_1_1_1"]
   # vpn1.status[:routes].keys
   ["e4:ce:8f:00:11:22", "dc:2b:61:aa:bb:cc"]

Note¶ ↑

OpenVPN management interface isn’t multi-client so destroy the OpenvpnManagement object as soon as you’ve finish using it.

Acknowledgements¶ ↑

Thanks go to the following people who have contributed to this project:

Antonio Davoli
Alessandro Celestini
Ryan Huber (rawdigits)

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