NAME¶
softflowctl
—
Remote control program for softflowd
SYNOPSIS¶
softflowctl |
[ -h ]
[-c
ctl_sock ]
command |
DESCRIPTION¶
softflowctl
is a remote control program used
to control a running
softflowd(8) daemon.
The command line options are as follows:
-c
ctlsock
- Specify an alternate location for the remote control socket. Default is
/var/run/softflowd.ctl
-h
- Display command line usage information.
COMMANDS¶
- shutdown
- Ask softflowd(8) to gracefully exit. This is
equivalent to sending it a
SIGTERM
or
SIGINT
.
- exit
- Ask softflowd(8) to immediately exit. No flow
expiry processing or data export is performed.
- expire-all
- Immediately expire all tracked flows.
- delete-all
- Immediately delete all tracked flows. No flow expiry processing or data
export is performed.
- statistics
- Return statistics collected by softflowd(8)
on expired flows.
- debug+
- Increase the debugging level of
softflowd(8)
- debug-
- Decrease the debugging level.
- stop-gather
- Stops network data collection by
softflowd(8).
- start-gather
- Resumes network data collection.
- dump-flows
- Return information on all tracked flows.
- timeouts
- Print information on flow timeout parameters.
- send-template
- Resend a NetFlow v.9 template record before the next flow export. Has no
effect for other flow export versions.
BUGS¶
All times are unconditionally displayed in UTC, regardless of the system
timezone.
AUTHORS¶
Damien Miller ⟨djm@mindrot.org⟩
SEE ALSO¶
softflowd(8)