openvpn-management

OpenVPN management and monitoring utils.

• ovpn_status.py
• ovpn-client-management.sh

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ovpn_status.py

Description:

OpenVPN server status parser.

Dependencies:

• privileged rights
• Python 3 (tested version 3.9.5 on Debian GNU/Linux 11)
• cryptography Python 3 module (tested version 41.0.1)
• requests Python 3 module (tested version 2.31.0)
• Existing status, server, ca, cert options in server.conf

PARAMETERS	DESCRIPTION	DEFAULT
[-s, --server_conf]	path to OpenVPN server configuration file	REQUIRED
[-f, --filter]	client names filter by regex	.*
[-g, --geo]	check client real ip geo location (may be slow)	None

Example usage with Zabbix agent:

# add options to openvpn server config file
sudo tee -a /etc/openvpn/server/server.conf > /dev/null <<'EOF'
status /var/log/openvpn/openvpn-status.log
status-version 2
server 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0
ca /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/pki/ca.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/pki/issued/server.crt
EOF
sudo systemctl restart openvpn@server

# install dependencies
sudo pip install cryptography requests
# download
sudo wget https://git.hmp.today/pavel.muhortov/openvpn-management/raw/branch/master/ovpn_status.py -O /etc/openvpn/server/ovpn_status.py
sudo chmod +x /etc/openvpn/server/ovpn_status.py

# edit sudoers
sudo sh -c "echo '
zabbix  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/etc/openvpn/server/ovpn_status.py -s /etc/openvpn/server/server.conf
' > /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix_agentd"
# check permission
sudo -u zabbix sudo /etc/openvpn/server/ovpn_status.py -s /etc/openvpn/server/server.conf

# add UserParameter to Zabbix agent
sudo sh -c "echo '
Timeout=30
AllowRoot=0
UserParameter=discovery.ovpn, sudo /etc/openvpn/server/ovpn_status.py -s /etc/openvpn/server/server.conf
' >> /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf"
sudo systemctl restart zabbix-agent

Download OpenVPN_by_Zabbix_agent.yaml template
Zabbix Server -> Configuration -> Templates -> Import template

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ovpn-client-management.sh

Description:

Creating or deleting client config for openvpn and sending config and info to email/telegram.

Dependencies:

• privileged rights
• chpasswd
• openvpn (tested version 2.5.1 on Debian GNU/Linux 11)
• easy-rsa (tested version 3.0.8 on Debian GNU/Linux 11)
• tar
• Python 3 (tested version 3.9.5 on Debian GNU/Linux 11)
• existing /usr/local/bin/sendmail.py
• curl (tested version 7.74.0 on Debian GNU/Linux 11)

POSITION	PARAMETERS	DESCRIPTION	DEFAULT
1	add|del	add or delete client config	REQUIRED
2	<username>	client username	REQUIRED
3	<password>	client password	REQUIRED
4	<additional>	client description
5	[-f],[--force]	service will restart after username delete

Example usage:

# download
sudo wget https://git.hmp.today/pavel.muhortov/openvpn-management/raw/branch/master/ovpn-client-management.sh -O /etc/openvpn/server/ovpn-client-management.sh
sudo chmod +x /etc/openvpn/server/ovpn-client-management.sh

# edit ovpn-client-management.conf
sudo tee /etc/openvpn/server/ovpn-client-management.conf > /dev/null <<'EOF'
# sendmail configuration
from=user@host.zone
pass=password
dest=user@host.zone
smtp=smtp.host.zone
port=587
# telegram configuration
API_KEY=YOURAPIKEY
CHAT_ID=-100123456789
THRD_ID=123
EOF

# create link
ln -s /etc/openvpn/server/ovpn-client-management.sh ./ovpn

# create client
sudo ./ovpn add username password

# delete client (and restart service for applying changes)
sudo  ./ovpn del username -f

# check journal
tail -f /var/log/openvpn/ovpn-client-management.log