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Adam_L
Adam_L
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September 28, 2022
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/Library/Application\ Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fcconfig reports finished but nothing ...

  • September 28, 2022
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This is my first attempt to Mass Deploy / Silent install FortiClientVPNSetup on macOS and Windows 10, including mass deploying the VPN connection profile/configuration

 

in our attempt to the specific issue, I am dealing with is that the macOS fcconfig reports finished but nothing

 

/Library/Application\ Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fcconfig -m vpn -f vpn.conf -o export   InstallFortiClient.sh (the provided script which which downloads, uninstalls, reinstalls)  /Library/Application\ Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fcconfig -m vpn -f /tmp/vpn.conf -o importvpn

reports finished but doesn't have anything loaded

 

yet the same vpn.conf imported via the GUI XML > import XML config works without issue

 

adding the -d flag doesn't show any additional output

 

cat /Library/Application\ Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/Logs/servctl.log

shows:

20220928 12:41:09.619 [servctl:INFO] FCTServiceController:104 received register request from servid 32 (fcconfig) with pid 7616. Total registered services = 6

 

These are on Apple Silicon devices in case that matters

 

Any suggestions?

 

-Adam

3 replies

Anthony_E
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Anthony_E
Staff
October 2, 2022

Hello Adam,

 

Thank you for using the Community Forum.

I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible.

 

Regards,

Best Regards
Anthony_E
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Anthony_E
Staff
October 4, 2022

Hello Adam,

 

Waiting for a solution, could you please have a look into this document?:

 

https://fortinetweb.s3.amazonaws.com/docs.fortinet.com/v2/attachments/27e8662a-a216-11eb-b70b-00505692583a/forticlient-7.0.0-macos-release-notes.pdf

 

Regards,

Best Regards
Adam_L
Adam_LAuthor
New Member
October 4, 2022

I've read to doc - nothing specific jumps out about an issue using the fcconfig - additionally, this is the release docs for 7.0.0 versus 7.0.7.

 

In the end, another community outside of Fortinet lead me to the workaround of copying the list which appears to work without issue.  cp vpn.plist "/Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/conf/"

 

I was glad to have a workaround after extensive troubleshooting of the fcconfig

 

MercyV
MercyV
New Member
March 17, 2023

Good day,

 

Where did you find the vpn.plist ,l can't seem to find it here /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient

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