[strongSwan] How to determine how many connections are currently active?

Houman houmie at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 12:43:58 CEST 2019


Hi Andreas,

Thank you very much.  That worked nicely, much easier than I thought it
would be.

The difference between INSTALLED (519) and ESTABLISHED (520) was nearly the
same in my case.   What is the main difference between them in this context?

Many Thanks,
Houman

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 11:14, Andreas Steffen <
andreas.steffen at strongswan.org> wrote:

> Hi Houman,
>
> you can get the number of active IKE SAs via
>
>   swanctl --list-sas | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l
>
> if you are using the vici interface or
>
>   ipsec statusall | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l
>
> if you are using the legacy whack interface.
>
> For the total number of active CHILD SAs replace ESTABLISHED
> by INSTALLED in the grep query.
>
> Best regards
>
> Andreas
>
> On 31.07.19 10:05, Houman wrote:
> > Good morning,
> >
> >
> > What is the best way to determine how many connections are currently
> > active on the StrongSwan server?
> >
> >
> > Maybe there is a simpler way but I thought of one way. I’m using
> > FreeRadius with Mysql DB as storage.
> >
> >
> > There are three fields that capture the start (acctstarttime), ongoing
> > (acctupdatetime) and the end (acctstoptime) of a connection.
> >
> >
> > I could theoretically filter for all acctupdatetime that start from
> > today and have a acctstoptime that is null.  The count of these records
> > would be the approximate number of active connections to the server.
> >
> >
> > Is there a better way to achieve this or do you agree to this approach?
> >
> >
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> >
> > Houman
> >
>
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