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SOFTFLOWCTL(8)		     System Manager's Manual		  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 soft-
     flowd(8) daemon.

     The command line options are as follows:

     -c ctlsock
	     Specify an alternate location for the remote control  socket.   De-
	     fault 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)

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	October 18, 2002		  SOFTFLOWCTL(8)

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