Forticlient (Zero Trust Fabric Agent) and VPN

[cedcalenzano]

Hello,

- We use "Forticlient VPN" software to connect to our organization network from external sources (e.g. computer at home) through our Fortigate firewall.

- We use "Forticlient" (Zero Trust Fabric Agent) as the antivirus solution in our organization PCs (they connect to our "FortiClient Endpoint Management Server").

What are the steps to run both VPN client and antimalware client on the same computer?

We need to connect to our VPN from a laptop which has got "Forticlient" (as antivirus) installed, but it looks like it's not possible to have both that and "Forticlient VPN" installed ad the same time, and the Forticlient doesn't show any VPN-related option, so we are at a dead end. I guess there is some way to enable the VPN features in the Forticlient software, but I have no idea how.

Any help would be very appreciated, thanks!

[AEK]

Hello

You need to enable the VPN in the related policy and VPN profile on EMS server, then once pushed to the client (30s) the VPN menu will appear.

[cedcalenzano]

Thanks! On the EMS server, "Endpoint Profiles" -> "Remote Access" I edited the "Default" profile and enabled it, so the "remote access" tab appeared in the clients.

I'll show it to my coworker and then we will probably make a profile to be applied to certain PCs only.

On a side note, the fact that there isn't an enabled/disabled status column in the list of Remote Access Profiles (forcing you to edit the profile to know) seems something Fortinet could improve.