softflowctl8
Remote control program for softflowd
Usage
softflowctl [-h]
[-c
ctl_sock]
command
Overview
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.
Releases
9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 2 times.