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Mike_Finney_119
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Dec 04, 2013
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Is it possible to connect to VPN from a Windows client command line without user interaction?

I am trying to get our F5 11.4 APM set up to work with remote Windows clients that need to connect and then disconnect from the VPN without any user interaction. To briefly summarize, this is for a r...
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  • DannyG_34437's avatar
    DannyG_34437
    Sep 25, 2014

    Older post, but I've done something similar.. I was able to use the following command on a windows machine to accomplish what I needed:

     

    taskkill /F /IM f5fpclientW.exe

     

    Thanks, dg

     

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Mike_Finney_119
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Dec 04, 2013
This is a tough one, I am now able to get the logon to work by invoking it from the command line but as it apparently won't save the password or use a pre-populated one, I can only make it work using a logon page and entering the password there. It does save the username, but not the password. I changed my policy to allow password saves to disk, generated a new BigIPClientSetup.exe file and uninstalled/reinstalled on my test machine, but it still won't save the password and it blanks the password I typed into the file. Is there no way to do this? Also, the f5fpc.exe -stop command won't do anything without the session number or a favorite ID. Is there any other way to terminate the VPN connection easily from the client end via command line? I see the session number when using the f5fpc -info command, but user intervention cannot be used here and parsing out the number appears to be a non-trivial task. Thanks!!!