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. 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⟩