How to monitor an OpenVPN connection

Question

I'm connecting to VPN service via the command line:

sudo openvpn --config-file <.....> --auth-user-pass <.....>

But in doing so I don't have a convenient way to monitor the connection. Specifically, I'd like some way to easily verify that my VPN is connected and maybe even lock outgoing traffic if OpenVPN dies.

I can't do this through the network manager because DNS is leaking and network-manager is apparently the problem, and I can't use the provider's Linux app because it apparently inserts ip routes that screw with Docker and Docker-Compose.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

On Ubuntu 16.04

Solution

You need to create an app to communicate with OpenVPN process via the management interface.

Here is the link to OpenVPN management interface.

Comments

[Enrico Tuvera Jr]

welp. Guess that's what I gotta do then :-|