If the IPsec tunnel is not UP, check that the ISAKMP policies match with the remote peers. This ISAKMP policy is applicable to both the Site-to-Site (L2L) and Remote Access IPsec VPN.
If the Cisco VPN Clients or the Site-to-Site VPN are not able establish the tunnel with the remote-end device, check that the two peers contain the same encryption, hash, authentication, and Diffie-Hellman parameter values and when the remote peer policy specifies a lifetime less than or equal to the lifetime in the policy that the initiator sent. If the lifetimes are not identical, the security appliance uses the shorter lifetime. If no acceptable match exists, ISAKMP refuses negotiation, and the SA is not established.
If the Cisco VPN Client is unable to connect the head-end device, the problem can be the mismatch of ISAKMP Policy. The head-end device must match with one of the IKE Proposals of the Cisco VPN Client.
