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

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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. 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. 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).