BT Access Manager - connection/startup options

[deesloop]

We have lots of these in the company for use with Cisco VPNs

I want a desktop shortcut for The Cisco Client

User will fire this up and will choose from either a LAN/wireless or 3g/GPRS connection

The client will then either fire up the BT access manager and make a connection or go out over the LAN.

I want to know if there are are command line options for startng BT access amanger and connect to a particular profile - Bt 3g/GPRS in particular. BTOMO doesn't seem to take any command line options other than btomo /profilename which just re-registers the profile - it doesnt connect it.

My BT account Manager didnt know.

My BT ICT specialist doesn't know.

If no-one knows about it maybe they couldadvise who to speak to about it.

Thanks 

Message Edited by deesloop on 29-01-2009 09:20 AM

[TheOtherOne]

Hi there,

Wasn't able to find a definate answer however I have found a link which you may be able to use to get the command line options to work. If you go to the following website :- http://www.systemscrafter.com/imho/archives/5, they have information on command line options for access.

Hope this helps.

TheOtherOne

[Kirok]

Okay I've not had a chance to look at this properly but Access Manager seems to be a rebranding of

http://www.bt-alliance.com/services/access/mobilexpress.asp
http://www.globalservices.bt.com/LeafAction.do?Record=MobileXpress_products_gbl_en-gb

Theres a bunch of contact information and links there perhaps one will help or you can go back to your account manager with the information. I'll have a proper look at in when I have more time.

[Naishy · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I'm afraid that BT Access Manager cannot take a profile name to connect to as one of it's command line parameters.

I think your best option would be to turn everything round and use BT Access Manager to establish to connection, then start the Cisco VPN Client. You can use the 'Home Page' profile setting to run the Cisco VPN Client after connecting using profile. This is accessed from the 'Home Page' tab on the 'Settings' panel, and would need to be configured for each profile you wanted to connect with.

For the Cisco VPN Client you could use '"C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\vpngui.exe" -c <connection entry>'  as your 'Home Page', where <connection entry> is the name of the Cisco VPN entry you want to connect to.

Hope this helps - Let me know if you need any more information.

Tim