How to enable the "Always Up" feature silently from FortiClient EMS

[mattw]

Hello,

We are using FortiClient for SSL VPN, centrally managed via an EMS server.

I can't find a way of silently enabling the Always Up feature from EMS (so that if a user loses the network, FortiClient is automatically reconnect when the network is back up).

It seems that the only way to make this work is to edit the SSL VPN tunnel in EMS and check the "Show Always Up Option".
- Note: All this does is show an option for the end user to enable/disable the feature.

The end user then has to check the Always Up setting on their individual ForitClient instance.

I would have thought there would be a way of enabling this centrally in EMS.

Any ideas? Maybe I'm being blind and missing something obvious.

Thanks in advance!

[srajeswaran]

on EMS, under XML config can you check if you see the below setting ?

Can you try changing the <show_alwaysup>0</show_alwaysup> to <show_alwaysup>1</show_alwaysup>  and test?

[mattw]

Hi @srajeswaran ,

Thank you for the suggestion. All this setting does is make the option visible for the user to enable/disable. It doesn't actually enable the feature, just the ability for the end user to check/uncheck the option from the FortiClient GUI.

[srajeswaran]

yeah, my mistake. I just realized it, it is enabling the option. Let me check further.

[mattw]

Hey no worries, thank you for your input!