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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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Rich_M_138850
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Jun 18, 2015

Killing the process leaves the session still established on the server. Try the below using powershell to retrieve the sid, create a variable and stop the client using the variable.

 

PS > cd C:\Program Files (x86)\F5 VPN

 

PS > .\f5fpc -start /h /u user /p password /q

 

PS > unattended command here

 

PS > $e = (.\f5fpc -info | findstr /r ^[1-9] | ForEach-Object {$_.Substring(0,7)})

 

PS > .\f5fpc -stop /s $e

 

Rich