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Schedule a router reboot, and what about failover

Centipid manages your MikroTik’s subscriber side: RADIUS, PPPoE, Hotspot, and the management tunnel. It can reboot a router now, and it can add entries to the router’s own task scheduler. It does not set up backup internet links.

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Reboot now

Open the router from Network → Devices → Routers and choose Actions → Reboot MikroTik. The router must be online, because the reboot is sent over its management connection. If it is offline, the action is greyed out. Everyone connected through the router drops while it restarts.

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Schedule a reboot

Centipid has no reboot timetable of its own. Instead, the router’s Scheduler tab adds a task to the MikroTik’s built-in scheduler (/system scheduler), and the router runs it.
  1. Open the router and select the Scheduler tab. It lists the tasks already on the router.
  2. Choose Add task and fill in:
    • Name: letters, numbers, - and _, for example nightly-reboot.
    • Interval: how often it repeats. Use a preset (5m, 15m, 1h, 1d), type your own such as 7d for weekly, or turn on Run once.
    • Start: At a set time, for example 03:00. (On startup runs the task every time the router boots, so do not use it for a reboot.)
    • Script / command: /system reboot
    • Comment (optional): who added it and why.
  3. Choose Create task. The task appears in the list.
To stop the scheduled reboot, delete the task from the same tab. The router runs the task by its own clock, so check the clock first. Use Sync router time from the router’s menu on the Routers list if it is wrong. The router must be online for the Scheduler tab to load, add, or delete tasks. Schedule the reboot for your quietest hour and tell customers if they will notice it.

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Failover, load balancing, and multi-WAN

Centipid does not configure a second internet link on routers you manage from the console. There is no setting for failover, load balancing (for example PCC), or multi-WAN. Set these up on the router itself, with WinBox or the RouterOS terminal. A common failover setup gives each internet link a default route with a different distance, plus check-gateway=ping so the router moves traffic when a link stops answering. See MikroTik’s own documentation for the details. Things to know when you do:
  • Centipid reaches the router through a management tunnel that the router opens over its internet connection. After any routing change, check that the router shows as online in Centipid and that a test subscriber can sign in.
  • Do not remove or rename the Centipid RADIUS, tunnel, or hotspot settings while you change routing. If something breaks, see Network troubleshooting.
  • Some older routers also carry a backup RADIUS server so customer logins keep working over the internet link if the management tunnel drops. For those routers, the Script tab shows the command under Fallback RADIUS. This keeps logins working; it does not add a backup internet link.