IPCAD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual IPCAD(8)NAMEipcad — IP accounting daemon with Cisco-like ip accounting export
SYNOPSISipcad [-h] [-c config] [-d] [-r] [-s]
DESCRIPTION
IPCAD stands for IP Cisco Accounting Daemon. It runs in background and
listens traffic on the specified interfaces. Collected statistics can be
obtained via the same method used to gather ip accounting from Cisco
routers.
OPTIONS
The options are as follows:
-h Print the help page
-c config Specify configuration file
-d Work in background
-r Import saved accounting table on startup
-s Save the active accounting table on exit
RSH COMMANDS
Once started, ipcad listens for rsh requests and/or exports NetFlow. In
case of rsh, data can be requested from ipcad by issuing a following:
rsh localhost command
Commands may be freely abbreviated.
Recognized commands are:
help Show available commands
show ip accounting Show current accounting table
show ip accounting checkpoint Show checkpointed accounting table
clear ip accounting Move accounting to checkpoint base
clear ip accounting checkpoint Clear checkpoint base
show interface <ifname> Show interface status and counters
stat Show overall interface status and
statistics
dump [<pathname>] Dump current accounting table
restore [<pathname>] Restore current table
import [<pathname>] Import (add) entries from specified
file
shutdown Shutdown ipcadEXAMPLE
Run ipcad as daemon, import saved state tables on startup and save them
on exit:
ipcad-rds
Save statistics: the following commands will save statistics for further
processing. No data loss will occur in this case.
rsh localhost cle ip acco
rsh localhost sh ip acco checkpoint > file_to_parse
Please refer to ipcad.conf(5) manual page for NetFlow configuration
options.
SEE ALSOipcad.conf(5).
AUTHORS
Lev Walkin <vlm@lionet.info>
May 25, 2001
