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.

AUTHORS

     Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>

SEE ALSO

     softflowd(8)