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>

SEE ALSO

       softflowd(8)

Debian                                          October 18, 2002                                  SOFTFLOWCTL(8)