[TriLUG] Ubuntu 16.04 NetworkManager Access Logging

[Alan Sterger via TriLUG]

In case anyone finds this, I've satisfied my requirement for extracting 
VPN connection time by using the extended grep below:

egrep 'VPN plugin: state changed: st.*' /var/log/syslog

which gives both 'started' and 'stopped' state (as well as 'stopping' 
but hey, shouldn't be too choosy).

Cheers,

-- Alan Sterger

On 5/10/2018 1:17 PM, Alan Sterger wrote:
> Hi Listers,
>
> I need to extract connection timing from accessing my clients VPNs.  
> I've looked at /var/log/syslog and 'journalctl -u NetworkManager'.  
> What I need is simple connect/disconnect timing without all of the 
> DEBUG information.  Also, sometimes this information is gathered 
> several days later making 'journalctl -u NetworkManager' not optimum.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -- Alan S.
>