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March 28, 2025

Technical Tip: Understand ‘Auto-Connect Only When Off-Fabric’ feature

  • March 28, 2025
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Description

This article describes the relationship between the 'Auto-Connect Only When Off-Fabric' and ‘Always Up’ features in the EMS remote access profile.

Scope EMS, FortiClient.
Solution

'Auto Connect Only When Off-Fabric' automatically connects the FortiClient machine to the VPN connection when the FortiClient machine is considered in off-fabric status.

 

When this feature is enabled, the FortiClient machine will keep trying to auto-connect even if there is no Internet access on the machine and regardless of any value set to the 'Always Up Max Tries' feature in EMS.

 

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Any value that was set to 'Always Up Max Tries’ will be ignored as the 'Always Up' feature is turned off once ‘Auto Connect Only When Off-Fabric’ is enabled.

 

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In summary:

  • Auto Connect Only When Off-Fabric: Enable.
  • Always Up: Automatically Disable (leads to any value set in 'Always Up Max Tries' will be ignored).
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