Launching Ivanti Secure Access Client from the Ivanti server Web Portal

One typical method of establishing a VPN connection is for users to browse to the Ivanti server's Web portal, login, and then launch Ivanti Secure Access Client from the Web page.

The following items describe the Ivanti Secure Access Client connection behaviors:

•Ivanti Secure Access Client has been installed on the endpoint by using the default Ivanti Secure Access Client installer. The installed Ivanti Secure Access Client does not yet have any connections. The user browses to the Ivanti server, logs into the server, and then clicks the Ivanti Secure Access Client button on the Web portal page. The following action occurs:

•The default Ivanti Secure Access Client connection set is automatically deployed to the client.

•The connection that has a URL that matches the server URL is launched.

•Ivanti Secure Access Client has been installed on the endpoint and it has a connection from the Ivanti server. The user browses to the Ivanti server, logs into the server, and then clicks the Ivanti Secure Access Client button on the Web portal page. The following action occurs:

•The connection that has a URL that matches the server URL is launched.

•Ivanti Secure Access Client has been installed on the endpoint and it has a connection from two different Ivanti servers. The user browses to one of these Ivanti servers, logs into the server, and then clicks the Ivanti Secure Access Client button on the Web portal page. The following action occurs:

•Only the connection that has a URL that matches the server URL is launched.

•Ivanti Secure Access Client has been installed on the endpoint. It has a connection for one Ivanti server but the user browses to a different Ivanti server, logs into the server, and then clicks the Ivanti Secure Access Client button on the Web portal page. The following action occurs:

•A new dynamic connection is created on Ivanti Secure Access Client for this Ivanti server. (Note that the default connection on the server must be configured as a dynamic connection.) This new connection is a manual connection, that is, it does not start automatically when Ivanti Secure Access Client starts.

•The new connection for this Ivanti server is started based on matching URLs.

Usage Notes

The Web browser method of launching Ivanti Secure Access Client is affected by the following configuration issues:

•The Ivanti Secure Access Client connection URL and the server URL must be an exact match. Ivanti Secure Access Client does not perform reverse DNS lookup to find a match.

•Connections that have the connection property Allow user to override connection policy disabled cannot be launched from the browser even if URLs match.