Enabling additional anyconnect client features, Enabling start before logon – Cisco ASA 5505 User Manual

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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Configuration Guide using the CLI

Chapter 75 Configuring AnyConnect VPN Client Connections

Configuring AnyConnect Connections

Step 4

Enter group policy webvpn configuration mode and specify a client profile for a group policy with the
anyconnect profiles command:

You can enter the anyconnect profiles value command followed by a question mark (?) to view the
available profiles. For example:

asa1(config-group-webvpn)# anyconnect profiles value ?

config-group-webvpn mode commands/options:

Available configured profile packages:

engineering

sales

The next example configures the group policy to use the profile sales with the client profile type vpn:

asa1(config-group-webvpn)# anyconnect profiles value sales type vpn

asa1(config-group-webvpn)#

Enabling Additional AnyConnect Client Features

To minimize download time, the client only requests downloads (from the ASA) of the core modules that
it needs. As additional features become available for the AnyConnect client, you need to update the
remote clients in order for them to use the features.

To enable new features, you must specify the new module names using the anyconnect modules
command from group policy webvpn or username webvpn configuration mode:

[no] anyconnect modules {none | value string}

Separate multiple strings with commas.

For a list of values to enter for each client feature, see the release notes for the
Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client.

Enabling Start Before Logon

Start Before Logon (SBL) allows login scripts, password caching, drive mapping, and more, for the
AnyConnect client installed on a Windows PC. For SBL, you must enable the ASA to download the
module which enables graphical identification and authentication (GINA) for the AnyConnect client.
The following procedure shows how to enable SBL:

Step 1

Enable the ASA to download the GINA module for VPN connection to specific groups or users using
the anyconnect modules vpngina command from group policy webvpn or username webvpn
configuration modes.

In the following example, the user enters group-policy attributes mode for the group policy
telecommuters, enters webvpn configuration mode for the group policy, and specifies the string vpngina:

hostname(config)# group-policy telecommuters attributes

hostname(config-group-policy)# webvpn

hostame(config-group-webvpn)#anyconnect modules value vpngina

Step 2

Retrieve a copy of the client profiles file (AnyConnectProfile.tmpl).

Step 3

Edit the profiles file to specify that SBL is enabled. The example below shows the relevant portion of
the profiles file (AnyConnectProfile.tmpl) for Windows:

<Configuration>

<ClientInitialization>

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