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requesting connection status via code or through CLI

megabytes — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:50:52 GMT

Hey there, I'm designing windows 10 app which needs to connect to a office based database via a remote laptop.

The laptop will have access to the office through the GlobalProtect VPN.

I need a way to query the GlobalProtect windows agent to see if there is an active VPN connection so I can start making database calls or use locally stored data.

Any ideas.

Currently I can either ping the officer server which will pause the app while it times out, or read through the Global Protect logs.

I am hoping I can make a quick call to the installed client.

Cheers

Aaron

Re: requesting connection status via code or through CLI

JoeAndreini — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:48:34 GMT

What if you inspect the routing table?

It may take some tweaking to the GP configuration, but you should be able to have it install a route to the network or server that you can look for in the routing table.

Re: requesting connection status via code or through CLI

megabytes — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 01:24:08 GMT

Hi Joe,

Not as eligent as I was hoping, but certainly a much better step up then running through logs. I'll most likely run with this solution for now until something better comes along.

Cheers

Aaron

Re: requesting connection status via code or through CLI

JoeAndreini — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:22:42 GMT

There may be a better solution that I do not know of, just offering something I thought was better than pinging the host or searching the logs

Re: requesting connection status via code or through CLI

Remo — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 20:27:03 GMT

what about checking the network adapters? when Global protect isn't connected the network adapter will show also a disconnected status. One possible powershell command is:

get-netadapter

This will show all network adapters and their connection status and where you get a nice list of up and disconnected adapters. The Global Protect network adapters description is normally "PANGP Virtual Ethernet Adapter".