Using the FortiClient API Overview
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Using the FortiClient API
You can operate FortiClient VPNs using the COM-based FortiClient API.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Overview
• Controlling a VPN
• Setting and monitoring a security policy
• API reference
Overview
The FortiClient COM library provides functionality to:
• Retrieve a list of the VPN tunnels configured in the FortiClient application.
• Start and stop any of the configured VPN tunnels.
• Send XAuth credentials.
• Set the security policy for the FortiClient VPN.
• Retrieve status information:
• configured tunnel list
• active tunnel name
• connected or not
• idle or not
• remaining key life
• current security policy
• Respond to FortiClient-related events:
• VPN connect
• VPN disconnect
• VPN is idle
• no longer in compliance with security policy
• XAuth authentication requested
Controlling a VPN
This section uses example code snippets in Visual Basic to show how to operate a VPN
tunnel programmatically.
Linking to the COM library
The COM library for FortiClient is fccomintdll.dll, located in the FortiClient installation
directory, by default c:\Program Files\Fortinet\FortiClient. Using your development
environment, create a reference to this library.
Begin FCCOMINTDLLLibCtl.VPN VPN1
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