softflowd/softflowctl.md

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SOFTFLOWCTL(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SOFTFLOWCTL(8)

NAME

softflowctl -- Remote control program for softflowd

SYNOPSIS

softflowctl [ -h ] [ **-c ** _ctlsock ] 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. Please report bugs in softflowctl to https://github.com/irino/softflowd/issues

AUTHORS

Damien Miller djm@mindrot.org
Hitoshi Irino (current maintainer) irino@sfc.wide.ad.jp

SEE ALSO

softflowd(8)

BSD October 18, 2002 BSD

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