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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
OK, a little progress. I was able to make the silent non-interactive connection work with "f5fpc -start /c "C:\Program Files\F5 VPN\client.f5c" /p password /t /q", but I haven't been able to figure out a good way to retrieve the session ID to run with the "f5fpc -stop /s ID" command. I did have to use the logon page to accept the credentials but as long as the user doesn't see the connection then it is fine. Is there a good and easy way to end the sessions remotely? I guess I could put a connection limit in place and just terminate them after 5 minutes or something, but that seems a bit excessive when there is a command line option -stop.