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Setting Multiple profile in Cisco AnyConnect – Windows

Pandiyan Murugan41 Comments

I have been using the Cisco AnyConnect as my primary VPN Client for the past few months. The simple view of the client is really impressive and productive.

Whenever I want to connect to my VPN host I will type my VPN host address in the text of VPN client and click connect. It’s pretty easy when we are using only one VPN profile. It will remember our last used setting/profile details with it.

But when I need to switch to another VPN network, I have to delete the VPN host address and retype the new VPN host address. I have searched on the Internet and found how to set the multiple profiles in VPN client.

To set multiple profiles in Cisco AnyConnect VPN client. We have to add an XML config file with name “Profile.xml”

The file has to be placed in the following path

C:\ProgramData\Cisco\Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client\Profile

Profile.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AnyConnectProfile xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/encoding/">
<ServerList>
<HostEntry>
<User>username</User>
<HostName>host alias name</HostName>
<HostAddress>host address of vpn</HostAddress>
</HostEntry>
</ServerList>
</AnyConnectProfile>

We have to provide our VPN details inside the HostEntry tag which is under ServerList.

whereas

<User> is username of our VPN account

<HostName> is our alias name of profile

<HostAddress> is URL of VPN host or IP address

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AnyConnectProfile xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/encoding/">
<ServerList>
<HostEntry>
<User>Pandiyan</User>
<HostName>MyHost</HostName>
<HostAddress>local.pandiyan.com</HostAddress>
</HostEntry>
</ServerList>
<ServerList>
<HostEntry>
<User>Guest</User>
<HostName>MyGuest</HostName>
<HostAddress>guest.pandiyan.com</HostAddress>
</HostEntry>
</ServerList>
</AnyConnectProfile>

Once we have added the profile config file, we have to restart our VPN client instance. Once we restarted the VPN client will look as follows

Cisco

We can able to choose our profile from the drop down, and when we try to load our profile the username will be auto filled using the value of User field in the config file.

MyHost

I have tried these setting on my Windows 10 machine. It’s working fine for me, you guys try out and let me know your feedback in comment section.

 

Happy Working!

Saving Git Username and Password in Tortoise Git

Pandiyan Murugan8 Comments

When we are dealing with Git commits multiple times daily, it will be difficult and time-consuming if we enter our username and password every time.

If we didn’t save our credentials, whenever we try to push our source code to the origin.

Bang!

tortoise-git

Credentials window occurs and consumes our valuable time.

By using following steps we can save our Git credentials in Tortoise Git

Create a text file called _netrc in the home directory

%userprofile%

(e.g. c:\users\pandiyan\_netrc).

Or we can create the file in any path, but the path which contains the file should be added in the HOME environment variable. The file path URL should not contain any space character.

And the file should contain the credentials with the following format:

machine

login

password

example:

machine github.com

login myloginid

password mypassword

we can add multiple instance details too. By doing the above steps, login window won’t appear every time. We save our valuable time and spend that in some other ways.

Happy Coding 🙂

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