Restart OpenVPN process from CLI w/o restarting device

RouterOS General
1

I seem to have an issue with the OpenVPN configuration on a box running routerOS 7.10.2. The effect is that the CPU usage is (very) high: 90%-100%.

To be able to quickly recover from this situation without having to reboot the device (which is a firewall too), I need to restart (or stop) the OpenVPN (ovpn) process.

How can I do this via the CLI?

I have disabled

/interface/ovpn-server/server/set enabled=no

and re-enabled

/interface/ovpn-server/server/set enabled=yes

the ovpn-server to no avail: the user’s OpenVPN sessions are gone, but (ovpn) CPU usage stays high and the process keeps running…


Thanks for any hints/pointers
Alain

2

Most likely the answer is: “it cannot be done”.
RouterOS does not provide that level of access to the user/admin.
You would need a shell login and that can only be obtained by “rooting” the device, there are several methods in older versions but MikroTik usually releases updates to fix that.