I work remote, and use the Cisco VPN client to connect to the network.  There’s a timeout set on our concentrator that gives me the boot every day.  It’s a minor annoyance to be sure, but still.  It’s no fun being deep in thought on a server only to be unceremoniously kicked from the network.

So I’ve been fiddling with the command line interface of the client, to see if I can cobble together a script I can schedule to log me out and back in on my time frame rather than that of the concentrator.  Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.

The first line disconnects the current connection (if already disconnected the script continues gracefully).  The second line needs 3 arguments fed to it in this order: profile, username and password.  the @echo y | exists because the concentrator I connect to has a disclaimer splash that requires a Y response to bypass in order to fully establish the connection.

Thus far my only problem is I’ve not found a way to suppress the client GUI window that appears when the disconnect occurs.