Control manual server installation?

[D. Rackerby]

I've set up OpenVPN Access Server on macOS 12.7.6 "manually."  Can I use Tunnelblick to control that process?

[Tim Gahagan]

Tunnelblick is a VPN Client which attaches to the VPN Server.

Not sure what "control that process" means, since the server should run, then from another client you connect to that server.

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On Mar 9, 2026, at 11:01 AM, D. Rackerby <drac...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've set up OpenVPN Access Server on macOS 12.7.6 "manually."  Can I use Tunnelblick to control that process?

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[D. Rackerby]

I was under the impression that Tunnelblick could be used to control the OpenVPN server on macOS, as well as being a client.

[Tim Gahagan]

That would be new to me....

Not sure how a client "controls" the server, but maybe someone else can chime in.

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[Tunnelblick Developer]

Tunnelblick is designed to control server processes that it created and/or client processes that it created. It is not designed to control OpenVPN processes that have been created or started by something else, including, for example, OpenVPN Access Server.

Tunnelblick doesn't do much with OpenVPN server processes – it starts and stops them, but it doesn't do much more than that. For example, it doesn't list active sessions, have the ability to terminate active sessions, etc. Doesn't OpenVPN Access Server do that?

[D. Rackerby]

I see.  I installed OpenVPN via Homebrew and configured it via CLI.  I was hoping for a GUI like there is for Windows.