[strongSwan] How to check the health of a StrongSwan server?

[Noel Kuntze]

Hello Houman,

You can't without actually connecting to the server and trying it. There are too many moving parts.

Kind regards

Noel

Am 21.09.19 um 19:58 schrieb Houman:
> Hello,
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> How can I check if the VPN server is healthy and can accept new connections?
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> I found this Ruby script https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-strongswan/blob/master/bin/check-strongswan.rb which utilises ‘ipsec status’ to check for health.
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> My Ruby isn’t very good to make full sense of it.  When I run ‘ipsec status’ from the command line, all I get is the listing of each active connection.  But a server can be without any active connection and still be healthy. So I can’t follow the thought process.
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> Do you guys know of a way to check the health status of a strongswan server? 
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> Many Thanks,
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> Houman
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