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APM Cookbook: On-Demand VPN for iOS Devices

Overview I’ve been using On-Demand VPN for a number of years as it’s a secure and easy way to access applications while on the road with the added benefit of conserving device battery life when id...
Published Jul 25, 2014
Version 1.0
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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Apr 27, 2017

Hi Brad,

 

On the APM side, you would need to change the Inactivity Timeout: If there is no activity (defined by the Session Update Threshold and Session Update Window settings in the Network Access configuration) between the client and server within the specified threshold time, the system closes the current session. By default, the timeout is 900 seconds. However, if an inactivity timeout value is set, when server traffic exceeds the specified threshold, the inactivity timeout is reset. To disable the inactivity timeout, set the Inactivity Timeout to 0.

 

On the iOS side, I'm not 100% of the behaviour when the device goes to sleep, I would assume the VPN would disconnect and would require another On-Demand request to re-establish.

 

Cheers,

 

Brett