FortiClient licensing and EMS clarification

[george058]

After FC v6 was released, the free version of FortiClient removed the options for the "Auto Connect" and "Always Up" checkboxes. If you try to check them in the free version, it states you need a paid version. It now sounds like I need to purchase licenses (I'm guessing VPN/ZTNA at minimum), stand up an EMS server, configure it, and set up VIPs for it to be accessible to remote users and then point FC to it just to get those 2 options back. Is that correct or is there any way to avoid setting up and managing an EMS server?

[AEK]

I think you are correct.

But keep in mind that SSL VPN is not secure anymore and is being dropped by Fortinet starting from FOS 7.6.3, so you should switch to ZTNA or IPsec.