Tutorial: An Intro to the sacli Command-Line Utility⁠

Overview⁠

Access Server provides you with an easy way to manage your VPN server and clients through the Admin Web UI, but you can also use the command-line interface (CLI) if you prefer. Access Server includes extensive command-line tools for working from the command line. You can manage every aspect of the VPN server operation with these.

This tutorial introduces you to the most-used tool, sacli.

What is sacli?⁠

The OpenVPN tool, sacli is for the Access Server commercial product. You can use sacli to manage users and permissions, server configuration, and other tasks. It requires root access on the command-line interface (CLI).

The name is short for "server agent command line interface," referring to the server agent, which is Access Server's main process that handles data storage, VPN certificates, authentication, and other related tasks.

All of the configuration options in the Admin Web UI are available through sacli commands, and you can use it for advanced options that aren't included in the UI at this time.

Using the sacli tool requires that you're connected to your console. You execute commands with the tool and include the options necessary for your desired output.