SOFTFLOWCTL(8)
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 Displays commandline 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.
AUTHORS
Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>