User’s Guide¶
It is compatible with Python 2.7, 3.6 to 3.10, and PyPy.
Getting Started¶
You could configure your OpenVPN server to log for client status. In usual it
could be achieved by adding status /path/to/openvpn-status.log line to
/etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf. For example:
proto udp
port 1194
dev tun0
status /var/run/openvpn-status.log
Once OpenVPN server running, the log file will be created and written. It looks like:
OpenVPN CLIENT LIST
Updated,Thu Jun 18 08:12:15 2015
Common Name,Real Address,Bytes Received,Bytes Sent,Connected Since
foo@example.com,10.10.10.10:49502,334948,1973012,Thu Jun 18 04:23:03 2015
bar@example.com,10.10.10.10:64169,1817262,28981224,Thu Jun 18 04:08:39 2015
ROUTING TABLE
Virtual Address,Common Name,Real Address,Last Ref
192.168.255.134,foo@example.com,10.10.10.10:49502,Thu Jun 18 08:12:09 2015
192.168.255.126,bar@example.com,10.10.10.10:64169,Thu Jun 18 08:11:55 2015
GLOBAL STATS
Max bcast/mcast queue length,0
END
Now we could parse log file with this library:
from openvpn_status import parse_status
with open('/var/run/openvpn-status.log') as logfile:
status = parse_status(logfile.read())
print(status.updated_at) # datetime.datetime(2015, 6, 18, 8, 12, 15)
foo_client = status.client_list['169.254.0.1']
print(foo_client.common_name) # foo@example.com
print(foo_client.bytes_received) # 334.9 kB
print(foo_client.bytes_sent) # 2.0 MB
print(int(foo_client.bytes_sent)) # 2097152
More details are in the API reference.
