One Item with Three Different Names

Now here is the interesting part. In the wizard, we created a connection profile called SSL_Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. At the CLI, this is referred to as a tunnel group. From the user’s perspective, the drop-down list is called Group. It is all referring to the same thing. It is important for you to understand the correlation between all of these and also to realize that it will be transparent to your users.

After the user authenticates, the ASA attempts to deliver and install the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client software on the user’s computer. A variety of methods can be used for the install, including ActiveX or Java. There are some minimum requirements at the workstation that is about to receive the installation. For full details of the current minimum requirements, visit Cisco.com for details about the latest version of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client.

The installation looks slightly different on a Macintosh, but the concepts are the same in that the secure tunnel using SSL technology, along with an IP address being assigned to the customer, can allow them full tunnel access to the corporate network over the VPN.