FortiClient Always On

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
June 13, 2024
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Hello,

How we can enable VPN always ON on FortiClient VPN?

adimailig

Staff & Editor

You may refer to below guide
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiClient/Technical-Tip-FortiClient-EMS-Auto-connect-a-VPN-Tunnel/ta-p/195552?externalID=FD41185

HS08Author

Contributor III

Hello,

On section

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FortiClient.

Enabling the "Auto Connect", "Always UP" or "Save Password" options can only be done by editing the FortiClient XML configuration file (on non-managed installations.)

From the FortiClient GUI, go to File -> Settings -> System.
Backup the configuration.
Edit the backup xml configuration file.
Locate the VPN tunnel section.
Locate the [<show_remember_password>], [<show_alwaysup>], and [<show_autoconnect>] tags.
Enable the tags by adding a [1] to the tags.
Save the xml configuration.
Restore configuration back to the FortiClient.

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There are no Setting under File, only close available there.

adimailig

Staff & Editor

This is the Backup/Restore mentioned on the documentation.

As you can see here the Restore button is greyed out.
You need to unlock the FortiClient.
Click the "padlock" icon on upper right corner of FortiClient console.

hbac

Staff

Hi @HS08,

On the FortiGate, you can run the following commands:

config vpn ssl web portal
edit <>

set auto-connect enable
set keep-alive enable
set save-password enable

end

After that, connect to the VPN from FortiClient and the configuration will be pushed from FortiGate. Disconnect from the VPN and you should see those options.