OpenVPN OMI

Pack Assets

Templates

The Centreon Monitoring Connector OpenVPN OMI brings 1 host template :

• App-Openvpn-OMI-custom

It brings the following Service Template:

Service Alias	Service Template	Default
Server-Usage	App-Openvpn-Server-Usage-OMI	X

Collected metrics & status

Server-Usage

Metric name	Description	Unit
clients.current.count	Number of current Clients	count
server.traffic.in.bitspersecond	Server traffic in	b/s
server.traffic.out.bitspersecond	Server traffic out	b/s

Prerequisites

The Open VPN server must have an management interface running and available. A user and password dedicated to monitoring is needed for security reasons.

Setup

Online License

1. Install the Centreon package on every Centreon poller expected to monitor your Open VPN server:

yum install centreon-plugin-Applications-Openvpn-Omi

2. On the Centreon Web interface, install the OpenVPN OMI Centreon Monitoring Connector on the Configuration > Monitoring Connectors Manager page

Offline License

1. Install the Centreon package on every Centreon poller expected to monitor your Open VPN server:

yum install centreon-plugin-Applications-Openvpn-Omi

2. Install the OpenVPN OMI Centreon Monitoring Connector RPM on the Centreon Central server:

yum install centreon-pack-applications-openvpn-omi

3. On the Centreon Web interface, install the OpenVPN OMI Centreon Monitoring Connector on the Configuration > Monitoring Connectors Manager page

Configuration

Host

• Log into Centreon and add a new Host through Configuration > Hosts.
• Fill the "Name", "Alias" & "IP Address / DNS" fields according to your Open VPN server settings
• Select the Applications-Openvpn-Omi-custom template to apply to the Host
• Once the template applied, some Macros marked as 'Mandatory' hereafter have to be configured.

Mandatory	Name	Description
	OMIEXTRAOPTIONS
X	OMIPASSWORD
X	OMIPORT	7505
	EXTRAOPTIONS	Any extra option you may want to add to every command_line (eg. a --verbose flag)

How to check in the CLI that the configuration is OK and what are the main options for ?

Once the plugin installed, log into your Centreon Poller CLI using the centreon-engine user account and test the Plugin by running the following command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_openvpn_omi.pl \
    --plugin=apps::openvpn::omi::plugin \
    --mode=server-usage \
    --omi-hostname='10.0.0.1' \
    --omi-password='' \
    --omi-port='7505' \
    --warning-num-clients='' \
    --critical-num-clients='' \
    --warning-traffic-in='' \
    --critical-traffic-in='' \
    --warning-traffic-out='1000000' \
    --critical-traffic-out='2000000' \
    --use-new-perfdata 

Expected command output is shown below:

OK : Current Clients: 9000 Traffic In: 900 kb/s Traffic Out: 900 kb/s | 'clients.current.count'=9000;;;0; 'server.traffic.in.bitspersecond'=900000b/s;;;0; 'server.traffic.out.bitspersecond'=900000b/s;1000000;2000000;0; 

This command would trigger a WARNING alarm if the traffic out is reported as over 1000000b/s (--warning-traffic-out=1000000) and a CRITICAL alarm if over than 2000000b/s (--critical-traffic-out='2000000').

All available options for a given mode can be displayed by adding the --help parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_openvpn_omi.pl \
    --plugin=apps::openvpn::omi::plugin \
    --mode=server-usage \
    --help

All available options for a given mode can be displayed by adding the --list-mode parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_openvpn_omi.pl \
    --plugin=apps::openvpn::omi::plugin \
    --list-mode

Troubleshooting

Please find all the troubleshooting documentation for the Centreon Plugins in the dedicated page