Re: [strongSwan] Best practices regarding monitoring

2017-06-18 Thread Martin Willi
Hi Peter > So, am I correct to assume that you guys usually evaluate the output > of `ipsec statusall` Preferably I'd do that over vici [1], as it provides a much better interface for various languages to query tunnel status or re-initiate tunnels. > Do you simply send pings to remote systems

Re: [strongSwan] Best practices regarding monitoring

2017-06-14 Thread Peter Hofmann
Hi, On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 09:11:27PM +0200, Noel Kuntze wrote: > Besides DPD, there's no standard that charon implements for that. I am > also not aware of any that uses CHILD_SAs. alright, too bad. :-/ So, am I correct to assume that you guys usually evaluate the output of `ipsec statusall`

Re: [strongSwan] Best practices regarding monitoring

2017-06-09 Thread Noel Kuntze
Hello Peter, On 09.06.2017 11:46, Peter Hofmann wrote: > Hi, > > we're running various Ubuntu systems with StrongSwan 5.1 or 5.3. Each > system connects to exactly one IPSec/IKE peer. We usually don't know > what kind of peer that is -- is it also running StrongSwan, is it a > hardware firewall,