The management interface

This recipe shows how OpenVPN can be managed using the management interface on the server.

Getting ready

Set up the client and server certificates using the first recipe from Chapter 2, Client-server IP-only Networks.

For this recipe, the server computer was running CentOS 6 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.10. The first client was running Fedora 20 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.10. The second client was running Windows 7 64 bit and OpenVPN 2.3.10.

For the server, keep the configuration file example3-1-server.conf from the first recipe of this chapter at hand. For the Linux client, keep the client configuration file example3-1-client.conf from the first recipe of this chapter at hand. For the Windows client, keep the client configuration file example3-2-client2.ovpn from the Enabling client-to-client traffic recipe at hand.

We use the following network layout:

How to do it...

1. Create the server configuration file by adding a line to the example3-1-server.conf file:

           management tunnel...