Testing for abnormal disconnect

Question

I maintain a VPN between two sites using the VPN Client 5.0.07.0290.
The clients are running on Windows server 2003.
The connection is started with a script using the command line.
I need to know when the connection goes down. Currently I use a timed script that attempts to reconnect the VPN and if the client returns a 200 I assume it remains connected otherwise the client reconnects, if possible, and the connection is maintained. I log the success or failure of the reconnection event.
This is kind of a kluge. Polling with another process is not a reliable tool in my environment.
Is there a better way I can monitor the connection?
Will the client terminate in some manner I can test in a script or some othere more deterministic means to notify a process that the connection has failed?
Thanks in advance.
Mike

Answer 1

my understanding is: if you param something you are actually
setting a
default value if no value exists........which in your case is
"" or rather
nothing........so if you param with a value of nothing
.......... than go to
check its value.......it will be exactly what you set in the
param.........
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