14.3 Post-Installation

14.3.1 Monitoring Clients Connected to OpenVPN

The Connection Status Windows shows what clients are connected and their addresses.

  1. Log in to the NOWS SBE console.

  2. Under Select Component, click VPN Server (OpenVPN).

  3. Under Administrative Console, click OpenVPN Connection Status.

14.3.2 Creating the OpenVPN Certificates for Clients in the Key Management Interface

Key Management allows you to create a new key/certificate pair, revoke an existing key/certificate pair, and download client configurations for Windows and Linux clients.

  1. Log in to the NOWS SBE console.

  2. Click Products and Services.

  3. Under Select Component, click VPN Server (OpenVPN).

  4. Under Administrative Console, click OpenVPN Key Management.

  5. To revoke a client certificate, click Revoke on the client’s certificate.

14.3.3 Installing the Windows OpenVPN

  1. Log in to the NOWS SBE console.

  2. Click Products and Services.

  3. Under Select Component, click OpenVPN Services (OpenVPN).

  4. Click Key Management.

  5. Click Windows Client and Configuration.

  6. Specify the username in Unique Name field, then click Generate. This downloads a .zip file to your desktop.

  7. Open the .zip file and extract the contents to a folder on your system.

  8. To install the OpenVPN client and set up the client configuration, double-click the install.bat file. This loads the OpenVPN GUI Client Installation.

  9. Accept the default values or specify new values. Under some versions of Windows, a warning prompts the user to allow installation of a non-secure driver. Click Continue.

  10. After the installation completes, a new program is visible in the taskbar. Click the new icon to launch OpenVPN with the new configuration, and a status window displays, showing the connection progress:

    When the connection is fully established, the status window disappears and the taskbar briefly shows the new VPN address. At this point, the VPN tunnel has been established and OpenVPN has been successfully downloaded.

    The VPN tunnel can be broken by right-clicking in the taskbar icon and selecting disconnect.