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No, thank YOU for your swift reply.

Your comment put a smile on my face :)

I've checked these settings, will see if that improves workflow.

Seems like something that maybe could/should be turned off by default, seeing as how these popups prevent further use of the program. If a vpn disconnects these take focus, become child windows and I need to grab the mouse in order to click the OK button.

That setting ( Keep tab page opened on disconnect") causes tabs to stay open when you close a connection yourself, on purpose, which is just very, very annoying.

If a connection gets lost, RDM shows blocking popups preventing further actions until we close these popups

If a connection to a remote site is lost, or local network connectivity gets lost, and there's 10 RDP tabs open, this leads to 10 blocking popups showing up.

Those popups only show the button " OK " so they seem rather pointless anyway

You cannot continue using RDM until you click " OK " on all these popups

Disconnects result in blocking popups.

Reproduce by logging in to several RDP and SSH sessions

And then disconnect the netwerk

This will result in popups notifying about the disconnect, timeout etc which require clicking OK

Very annoying if this happens more often.

Cannot do anything else as long as this (blocking) popup is open.

Any way these can be turned into some log text in a status bar, or some text in the tab which just says 'it was disconnected' without blocking operation?

Yes, use case is;

• Better integration of OpenVPN, comparable to integration of L2TP/ Windows VPN

• No need for half-measure manipulation of GUI (which is pretty unstable)

• RDM "knows" which TAP interface is the connected VPN, and can close that specific on when all sessions have been closed (VPN group usage)

• RDM can show a progress window, no need to wait and see (this is also somewhat less pretty when using L2TP, the window kinda freezes, you don't really know what's going on)

• Anytime use of some sort of API is possible, that should be the preferred method.

• Will not screw up the OpenVPN settings. I just tried the Addon and noticed it changes the .ovpn path in OpenVPN to C:\Users\MyProfile\AppData\Local\Devolutions\RemoteDesktopManager\OpenVPN\ > I had a central folder linked here which contains all our .opvn and auth files.

Currently nothing even happens when trying an OpenVPN-GUI session in RDM.

I think this is because I already have it opened, which also was the issue beforehand.

Where possible we use OpenVPN instead of L2TP because OpenVPN can advertise routes.

When using L2TP additional routes need to be added after connecting, which causes UAC prompts, in some cases up to 10 times we have to click "allow"

I appreciate the effort , multiple active connections is a very welcome addition!

But the required use of the GUI, where RDM opens windows and clicks on forms is a no-go.

Please see OpenVPN's documentation as a starting point here:

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenVPNInteractiveService

I would very much like to be able to use OpenVPN in RDM.

The added advantage of OpenVPN SSL is the advertisement of routes.

Currently we still need to keep .ovpn files externally and manually start a VPN , this negates some of the very cool options of RDM like being able to automatically start a VPN if the host cannot be reached.

I appreciate the fact that my mention of alternatives to the GUI, using the Interactive Service was not the subject of this topic.

As I wrote a year ago;

"I would very much like to see RDM make use of this.

So that we do not need the OpenVPN-GUI AND can have multiple VPN connections active at the same time.

I presume it would be possible for the RDM client to also interact with the OpenVPN Interactive Service.

Thus being able to transparently open and close VPN connections, whilst also being able to monitor their state.

I.e. RDM could be operating as an alternative to the OpenVPN-GUI client."

I also experience this issue, since recently

Though it's hard to say what the actual conditions are and if it's an RDM or external (Windows) issue.

Haven't given it much thought yet, but seeing as someone is also noticing this, just wanted to mention I have also experienced this

Hasn't fixed it for me as well.

I will also investigate a bit more when I have the time.

I suggest you turn off the Clipboard sync in Chrome;

chrome://flags

I have the exact same issue, can replicate.

Chrome 78 build adds this "Shared Clipboard" feature.

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7679408?hl=en

Shared clipboard between computers and Android devicesA limited number of users might see the option to share their clipboard content between their computers and Android devices. To share, they need to have Chrome installed, sign in on both devices with the same account, and enable Chrome Sync.

The text is end-to-end encrypted, and Google can’t see the contents.

This functionality will be released to all users in a future version of Chrome. In the full release, admins will be able to control it with an enterprise policy.

^Yeah sorry for the mix-up.

When testing I noticed turningthe magnet / key combo off did work, but forgot to verify with the other SSH session types.

I got some things mixed up when testing.

To clarify;

Session type "SSH Shell"

Ctrl-6 and Ctrl-Shift-6 never work, turning off the Magnet and the shortcut key in the Options does not have any effect.

Session type "SSH Rebex"

Magnet on / shortcut keys in Options enabled > break does not work, Ctrl-6 and Ctrl-Shift-6 have no effect.

Key combinations (or magnet) turned off DOES work > Ctrl-6 (x2) breaks and Ctrl-Shift6 also breaks.

So with Rebex as the SSH session type we can get this working , by turning of the key combinations in the Options.

I can confirm that for me this works flawlesly and consistently.

Without the keyboard magnet I can send both Ctrl-6 and Ctrl-Shift-6, they both break my running ping on a Cisco switch.

Also changing the keys in the options to "when not in Session" had the desired effect.

I will check again tonight to see if I can find some differences., maybe pertaining to a session type or remote device.

Maybe the difference now is Rebex vs SSH shell, I will double check just to be sure.

I could be totally off here, but does this have anything to do with scancodes?

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-1.html

Brk == e11d45e19dc5

The prefix e1used for Pause/Break indicated that this key sends the make/break sequence at make time,

I think RDM captures the modifiers (shift-ctrl)

I do not know what the actual escape sequence is, and how it is send over SSH

https://bharathisubramanian.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/telnet-and-ssh-escape-sequences/

I am sorry I have nothing more usefull to add, I am not a programmer and do not know the first thing about escaping en how terminals/ ssh send their data.

But this is indeed a very frustrating issue, not being able to cancel any running tasks. And I presume this could affect other types of connections as well, but I dont very often run into other vendors' routers / switches where I need to Break tasks

Yeah PuTTY handles the key combo differently, I believe it just sends the "Break" key (actual Break key on keyboard) values over the line.

Just tried in a up-to-date RDM w/ SSH Shell Rebex , connected to a Cisco Router.

Ctrl-6 doesn't do anything

Ctrl-Shift-6 changes the tabname , it appends [B6]

Tried SSH Shell session;

Same effect as w/ rebex

Ctrl-Shift-6 does not work

Special commands > send Break does not break

You can try it by connecting to a cisco device (router, switch) w/ ping 127.0.0.8 , that will fail (2 second timeout) but take a bit longer than pinging something which responds. Gives you more time to try out the escape sequences

Try pingin 127.0.0.8 repeat 10 for a longer period (20 seconds) to test

Try ping 127.0.0.8 repeat 100 for agony because there's no way to cancel / break the running task....

This behaviour can be changed on most cisco devices, but this would be far from practical / ideal to require this modification when using RDM

SW-CORE-AMS-01#terminal escape-character ?

BREAK Cause escape on BREAK

CHAR or <0-255> Escape character or its ASCII decimal equivalent

DEFAULT Use default escape character

NONE Disable escape entirely

soft Set the soft escape character for this line

Looks like CTRL-SHIFT-6 is handled by RDM, when I notice the Tab name being changed to SessionName [B6]

I think the answer is somewhere in here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Escape_sequences

But man, that brings back memories

I would add my suggestion / tip ;

Go to options, and search for "space" >

Change "Treat space as" in search filter to "AND"

Now , in the search filter you can just type "micr che"

to find everything that contains both, which includes "microsoft" and "checkpoint"

And remember to extend the search scope to include tags, description etc to your liking.

Simeon, if it helps this is my thread about this,

https://forum.devolutions.net/topic31417-openvpn-allow-multiple-active-profiles.aspx

I also use OpenVPN externally now, because currently RDM does not implement OpenVPN in any way that suits how I work with multiple sites at once.

And I do not like the way currently RDM has OpenVPN implemented.

Maybe my thread gives you some extra insight, but at the moment RDM does not offer the option of using multiple OpenVPN connections transparantly.

Otherwise; RDM is still King and by far, very very far the greatest Remote Control/management/Support tool there is.

I personally would advice against using WebDAV.

Other datasources are probably more stable and easier to set up.

If it's just for yourself, I would store the XML or preferably the Sqlite locally, which can be in a folder that get's synced outside of RDM like Dropbox, Onedrive of Google Drive.

Personally I have never gotten WebDAV to work without running into issues.

VERSION 2019.2.9.0 (October 10th 2019) Beta

•Added "send break" command for SSH shell entry

I tried this out immediately. Does not seem to work unfortunately.

Also; what would be the keyboard shortcut associated and how would we potentially change what the Break command is?

The previous message looks like spam and should be ignored/deleted imho

Great!

Just yesterday, I was logged into some Cisco routers using RDM and had to kill my sessions because I couldn't break the process.

Looking forward to this!

Thanks David!

Of course this is just a low-prio, cosmetical pet peeve

I'm stay anxiously awaiting tight OpenVPN integration

https://forum.devolutions.net/messages.aspx?TopicID=31417

Cosmetical pet peeves should come last ;)

I just started a traceroute through an SSH session to a Cisco router.

Of course I forgot to temporarily change the Break command, so I now have no way of stopping this process on the router.

I know this is already on the "bug list" - just a reminder :)

I don't think this is really a bug, also not a feature request, but also not support...

So I let the dice decide which subforum should get this post.

With Nav pan auto-collapsed, when the Pane is expanded it will not collapse back if you click outside of the Pane.

Double clicking a session will collapse (this is an option)

But if you open the pane, and then maybe right click a credential, open the properties for a session etc, the pane does not collapse when you click outside of it.

The only way to close the Pane again is to click outside of the RDM window (ie Windows taskbar)

It would be so very pleasing if the Pane would collapse also if we click somewhere in the RDM window or even in the Session Window.

Or maybe it would help if the Pane would auto-collapse if the Mouse is not hovering above

And in addition the Pane could pop-up when hovering the mouse over the Tab

So also kind of a feature request...

Also the top bar does not collapse back up, when you pull it down, and then click somewhere in your session.

In this case it does collapse when we click on another RDM window element though.

But as you might understand, collapsing to the left, collapsing above; gives us a great big session window , so not a lot of RDM window real estate we can click on to collapapse.

Which type of datasource are you using?

I don't think there is an alternative.

You could put the credentials in a seperate vault ir datasource but then you would not be able to reference them.

Out of curiosity; how would your suggestion be all that different from putting credentials in 1 folder?

We have a folder in each structure called 'accounts' where we store credentials.

We also like to keep credentials seperated and this works just fine for us.

Options > User Interface > Treeview

Merge Credential List with Session (local source only)

Turn off to seperate them

If using central DB ;

Tools > System Settings > Applications > Type settings

Merge Credential list with sessions