Active VPN on running session

Hello,
This is really difficult to implement. We have no easy way to detect an opened VPN. We have some features to check the network adapter. Have you tried it to see if we can detect it accurately?

Regards

Hi David,

when I launch a VPN connection through RDM, the VPN entry in the Navigation tab becomes "active" (green icon, and bold characters)
when I close a VPN connection through RDM, the VPN entry in the Navigation tab coming back to previous status (no longer "active")

VPN entries are the only entry that don't appears in the running session even if in the navigation tab are "active".

Regards
Marco

Hello,
Does it work for all type of VPN and if you close the VPN manually outside of RDM, do you get the same result?

Regards

Hello,
Does it work for all type of VPN and if you close the VPN manually outside of RDM, do you get the same result?

Regards

If I close the VPN manually, outside RDM, RDM doesn't recognize that VPN has been closed. But it's not an issue for me.
In my humble opinion is more critical don't have the active VPN (lanched by RDM) in the running session (even if are "zombie" (open by RDM and closed manually)).

Anyway we always close , VPN launched by RDM, through RDM

Regards
Marco

Hello,

I've been looking into it and we seem to have a few features already in place that should work, even for VPNs.
I can properly see my VPN if I go in the opened sessions tab, and switch to "running sessions (global)":



There is also an icon in the status bar to show when a VPN is connected:



When the icon is clicked, it will focus the VPN in the navigation pane:



Let me know if this works for you, or if I've missed something in your scenario.

Regards,

Hi Hubert,

you are right.
I never checked the "running sessions (global)": but always the "running sessions (local)":

Why the VPN is not showed in the local?

I ask you this because:

• I work with group tab viewer as "active session viewer" (inside the vault view)
• I do that because sometimes I have multiple sessions opened and the tab bar is not so good in order to manage them
• I would like to have, in the group tab viewer also the VPN opened. But the group tab viewer works only with local running sessions.

Now you have more details in order to help us.

Regards
Marco

Hello Marco,

Thank you for the information, I understand what you mean. I've opened a ticket with this information, so that we can find a good way to add the running VPN to the "tab group" pane.

To answer your question, the difference between the two "running sessions" is the following:

• Running sessions (local): If there is a tab opened on your RDM, then it will be listed. There are also some cases like detecting if some application is running on your machine (for example, if RDM sees MSTSC.exe running on your machine, it will list it in there, despite not having an entry opened within RDM).
• Running sessions (global): If there is a log of a connection being opened and not yet closed in your datasource, it will be listed there. This is why VPNs are able to show there despite not having a tab, RDM still logs that it was opened.

Regards,

Really thanks Hubert,

I hope you can find useful my request.
If you have opened an internal ticket, I think the answer is yes.

Regards
Marco