OpenVPN 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. If you did not do this as part of the installation procedure, you can do it now.
Log in to the NOWS SBE console.
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You can now generate a client key, revoke a client, or download a client.
The Connection Status window shows what clients are connected and displays their addresses.
Log in to the NOWS SBE console.
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Monitor client activity.
After the installation, you can download the Windows OpenVPN.
Log in to the NOWS SBE console.
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Specify the username in field, then click . This downloads a ZIP file to your desktop.
Open the ZIP file and extract the contents to a folder on your system.
To install the OpenVPN client and set up the client configuration, double-click the install.bat file. This loads the OpenVPN GUI Client Installation.
All default values can be used during the installation. Under some versions of Windows, a warning prompts the user to allow installation of a non-secure driver. Click .
After the installation completes, a new program is visible in the taskbar. Click the new icon to launch OpenVPN with the new configuration; 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 VPN has been successfully downloaded. The VPN tunnel can be broken by right-clicking the taskbar icon and selecting .
NOWS SBE 2.5 does not provide a configuration tool for site-to-site VPN access, but you can set up this access manually.
For additional information about VPN setup, see TID 3165776