It's all setup and working via luci; various vpn's located in /etc/config/openvpn file but I was hoping to bypass usage via luci and instead start and stop connections via uci ssh, anyone know how to achieve this?
I'm trying to avoid re-writing out separate configs that are traditionally more cli uci friendly...
Like is there a command that emulates clicking start and stop for a /LEDE/Service/OpenVPN/ client config?
Not UCI, but will do what you want from the command line.
Edit. I see you want to switch config, not simply start/stop.
You could make multiple openvpn client files and call them directly when launching openvpn or you could use the uci to enable and disable accordingly. There is a UCI line for enabled, just call
uci set openvpn.openvpn-name.enabled=1
And enabled=0 to disable.