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Monitoring VPN Service
This section describes tasks associated with monitoring a functioning VPN service. It includes accessing status reports, setting logging options, viewing logs, and monitoring connections.
Viewing a VPN Status Overview
The VPN Overview gives you a quick status report on your enabled VPN services. It tells you how many L2TP and PPTP clients you have connected, which authentication method is selected, and when the service was started.
To view the overview:
1In Server Admin, choose VPN Service from the Computers & Services list.
2Click the Overview button.
Setting the Log Detail Level for VPN Service
You can choose the level of detail you want to log for VPN service.
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•Verbose will record all activity by the VPN service, including routine functions.
To set VPN log detail:
1In Server Admin, choose VPN Service from the Computers & Services list.
2Click Settings.
3Select the Logging tab.
4Select Verbose to enable verbose logging, if desired.
5Click Save.
Setting the VPN Log Archive Interval
Mac OS X Server can automatically archive VPN service logs after a certain amount of time. Each archive log is compressed and uses less disk space than the original log file. You can customize the schedule to archive the logs after a set period of time, measured in days.
To set up the log archive interval:
1In Server Admin, choose VPN Service from the Computers & Services list.
2Click Settings.
3Select the Logging tab.
4Select “Archive Log every ___ days”
5Enter the log archive rollover interval you want.
6Click Save.
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