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)