Background¶

This came about because I am creating a command to be run by Shellcmd to disable an OpenVPN service on boot and while trying to form the command I was presented with this message (by the CLi); "Invalid OpenVPN ID, must be numeric" and because I have 6 OpenVPN clients and 2 OpenVPN servers the number of the relevant service was not obvious.

After searching I got these numbers but I found them in various places and I also found that the service names for OpenVPN services were inconsistent, I will now outline them below:

• Service Status Widget
  • Service name format: openvpn, openvpn_2, openvpn_3
  • It has client/server in the description
  • 

• Interface Assignments / Network port
  • Service name format: ovpns1, ovpns1, ovpnc1, ovpnc2
  • In the service names: c = client, s = server
  • 

• Status / Services
  • Service name format: They are all labelled 'openvpn'
  • It has client/server in the description
  • 

The Issue¶

• As you can see each of the sections has a different service name format for the OpenVPN services
• It is not obvious what the 'OpenVPN ID' for each service is
• In VPN --> OpenVPN --> (Servers|Clients) the service name is not referenced

Solutions¶

• Unify the OpenVPN service names so they all follow the same format
• Make it easy to get the 'OpenVPN ID' from these locations and/or their service name
• In VPN --> OpenVPN --> (Servers|Clients) sections add the OpenVPN service name as a column (following the above points) or at the very least add the 'OpenVPN ID' as a column