Re: [Openvpn-users] Notification on client connection

[Bill W. <te...@be...>]

I don't have a windows environment, but it would be easy to verify.  
Simply write your script to write into a file with echo.  If that works, 
replace the echo with some smtp client to send mail instead.

//Bill

chromanty wrote:
> Oh thanks for the good directives, do you know if this works on the windows
> server version?
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>
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> chromanty escreveu:
>   
>> Hi all, 
>> i would to know if it is possible to configure openvpn server to send a
>> notification (such as a mail message) when a client connect/disconnect.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
>     sure it's possible. make yourself a script that does whatever you 
> want it to do (send an email, for example, in your case) but could be 
> ANY other thing that could be done in script and get it to OpenVPN with:
>
> client-connect
> client-disconnect
>
>     parameters.
>
>     when scripts called from OpenVPN enviromnent, OpenVPN will define 
> some enviromnent variables that you can use in your script. Check 
> 'Scripting and Environmental Variables' on OpenVPN man page:
>
> http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/manuals/openvpn-20x-manpage.html#
> lbAP
>
>     $common_name
>
>     is one of those variables that you surely want :)
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