What information can be found in the log file specified by the status parameter in OpenVPN’s
server.conf? (Select TWO correct answers)

A.
Errors and warnings generated by the openvpn daemon

B.
Routing information

C.
Statistical information regarding the currently running openvpn daemon

D.
A list of currently connected clients

E.
A history of all clients who have connected at some point

Explanation:
Status can be written to the syslog by sending a SIGUSR2 signal. This is an example of the status
report:
# killall -SIGUSR2 openvpn
#tail /var/log/syslog
Jan 1 01:02:03 linuxserver ovpn-server[1532]: OpenVPN CLIENT LIST
Jan 1 01:02:03 linuxserver ovpn-server[1532]: Updated,Wed Feb 2 13:38:39 2011
Jan 1 01:02:03 linuxserver ovpn-server[1532]: Common Name,Real Address,Bytes Received,Bytes
Sent,
Connected Since
Jan 1 01:02:03 linuxserver ovpn-server[1532]: VPNClient,172.16.202.128:1194,34224,6679,Wed Jan
1
01:02:03 2011
Jan 1 01:02:03 linuxserver ovpn-server[1532]: ROUTING TABLE
Jan 1 01:02:03 linuxserver ovpn-server[1532]: Virtual Address,Common Name,Real Address,Last Ref
Jan 1 01:02:03 linuxserver ovpn-server[1532]:
00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee,VPNClient,172.16.202.128:1194,Wed Jan 1
01:02:03 2011
Jan 1 01:02:03 linuxserver ovpn-server[1532]: GLOBAL STATS
Jan 1 01:02:03 linuxserver ovpn-server[1532]: Max bcast/mcast queue length,0
Jan 1 01:02:03 linuxserver ovpn-server[1532]: END