Restart OpenVPN client

[sco01]

I have a problem that I've been fighting with for quite some time.

I have two OPNsense instances connected via a site-2-site OpenVPN tunnel. Node1 is acting as a client to Node2. About once every month (sometimes more) I wake up to a monit alarm telling me that Node2 is down. This means that the OpenVPN client on Node1 has crashed and I have to start it again. Troubleshooting this has been hard as all I can see in the log on Node1 is "openvpn[78610]: Exiting due to fatal error". I figured there must be some way to monitor the service and try to start it automatically if it is down as a workaround and so I went down the monit path. All went well until I had to configure a start script for the service. Is there a way to stop/start the OpenVPN client command line? Alternatively: How can i troubleshoot the root cause to prevent it from happening in the first place? 

[amichel]

Hi,
take a look here : https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=6979.0
hth
amichel

[sco01]

Thanks. I had in fact tried the suggestion in that post but without success. The problem is that:

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/usr/local/etc/rc.d/client2 onestatus responds with

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client2 is not running when the client is up and running. The same applies for start and stop.

That thread is from 2018. Maybe something has changed since then?