man softflowctl (8): Remote control program for softflowd

SYNOPSIS

softflowctl [-h ] [-c ctl_sock ] command

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.

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.

All times are unconditionally displayed in UTC, regardless of the system timezone.

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