Restarting OpenVPN service

[ckooistra]

Hi there I have a specific use case for which I installed this package. I would like to be able to reboot my openvpn client service. I see that I can restart all services but is there a way to pass parameters to target specific services? Sorry I have been looking around in the documentation but not seeing what I am looking for. Thanks for your help!

[jaredhendrickson13]

Hey!

The /api/v1/services/restart endpoint has the service property that you can use to specify a single service to restart. To only restart OpenVPN, your request body to this endpoint should be: {"service": "openvpn"}

Hope this helps.

Thanks!

[ckooistra]

Hi I really appreciate the reply. In fact I was wondering if it is possible to start only a specific client connection of the vpn service not the whole service itself!

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On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 10:38 AM Jared Hendrickson ***@***.***> wrote: Hey! The /api/v1/services/restart endpoint has the service property that you can use to specify a single service to restart. To only restart OpenVPN, your request body to this endpoint should be: {"service": "openvpn"} [image: Screen Shot 2022-05-24 at 8 35 42 AM] <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/50180862/170061866-36558096-c6be-4b90-9ad3-067059aec49e.png> Hope this helps. Thanks! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#233 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGCUHVQF42GP66U6SFCHZHLVLTSVBANCNFSM5WPTES5Q> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: <jaredhendrickson13/pfsense-api/repo-discussions/233/comments/2812728@ github.com>

[ckooistra]

in fact I always get this message back On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 2:49 PM Christopher Kooistra ***@***.***> wrote:

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Hi I really appreciate the reply. In fact I was wondering if it is possible to start only a specific client connection of the vpn service not the whole service itself! On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 10:38 AM Jared Hendrickson < ***@***.***> wrote: > Hey! > > The /api/v1/services/restart endpoint has the service property that you > can use to specify a single service to restart. To only restart OpenVPN, > your request body to this endpoint should be: {"service": "openvpn"} > > [image: Screen Shot 2022-05-24 at 8 35 42 AM] > <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/50180862/170061866-36558096-c6be-4b90-9ad3-067059aec49e.png> > > Hope this helps. > > Thanks! > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#233 (comment)>, > or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGCUHVQF42GP66U6SFCHZHLVLTSVBANCNFSM5WPTES5Q> > . > You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: > <jaredhendrickson13/pfsense-api/repo-discussions/233/comments/2812728@ > github.com> >

[ckooistra]

[image: image.png] On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 3:01 PM Christopher Kooistra ***@***.***> wrote:

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in fact I always get this message back On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 2:49 PM Christopher Kooistra ***@***.***> wrote: > Hi I really appreciate the reply. In fact I was wondering if it is > possible to start only a specific client connection of the vpn service not > the whole service itself! > > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 10:38 AM Jared Hendrickson < > ***@***.***> wrote: > >> Hey! >> >> The /api/v1/services/restart endpoint has the service property that you >> can use to specify a single service to restart. To only restart OpenVPN, >> your request body to this endpoint should be: {"service": "openvpn"} >> >> [image: Screen Shot 2022-05-24 at 8 35 42 AM] >> <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/50180862/170061866-36558096-c6be-4b90-9ad3-067059aec49e.png> >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Thanks! >> >> — >> Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub >> <#233 (comment)>, >> or unsubscribe >> <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGCUHVQF42GP66U6SFCHZHLVLTSVBANCNFSM5WPTES5Q> >> . >> You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: >> <jaredhendrickson13/pfsense-api/repo-discussions/233/comments/2812728@ >> github.com> >> >

[jaredhendrickson13]

Currently, no. There is not a supported method of restarting OpenVPN clients. There is an open feature request for this though (#136). Feel free to follow that issue for updates on future progress.

[cappiz]

I don't seem to be able to restart the openvpn service. In my case I got two openvpn server.
The restart api does not throw any error, but in my logs I can't see that the server has been reloaded.

Any suggestions?