Hi Davide,
Yes, that makes sense - and I was going to do that originally, but I figured the real-time bytecount would result in less traffic (and text parsing). One question though ... you say "status file". Do you really mean a file? I can execute the status command over the Management Interface, but it's really a telnet type response, not in a file. Thanks, ... Russell On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 05:38 PM, Davide Brini <dave...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 March 2010, open...@rkmorris.us wrote: > > > I am trying to write an application that monitors traffic over an OpenVPN > > link - by using bytecount information from the management interface. > > However, after I telnet in, and enter "bytecount 1" (for 1 second > > updates), I find that the real-time bytecount updates are not really every > > second. They seem to be initially, but soon slow down (to an update every > > 5-10 seconds). > > Sorry for avoiding a direct answer to the question (David has already > addressed that quite well), but I just wanted to tell you that you can get > byte counts from OpenVPN's status file, ie the one you specify with "-- > status". I used that in the past to monitor clients and traffic (it was > actually a Munin plugin that read the file and collected the data). > That said, it might not suit your requirements, but I thought I mentioned > that > just in case. > > -- > D. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-devel mailing list > Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel >
