flowd.8

.TH FLOWD 8 "20 Jan 2006"

.SH NAME
flowd \- netflow collector

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B flowd
[\-d] [\-v] [\-E] [\-h] [\fI<config>\fP]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
The \fIflowd\fP is a netflow collector and traffic analizer.
It receives netflow from router and summirize traffic for clients
according to config by IP-addresses, interfaces, ports, as numbers
etc. Flowd can store results to text file or to mysql database.
You can also use perl hooks to take your own actions, process
results and store its as you whish. The \fIflowd\fP can use
SNMP for get ifName, ifDescr, ifAlias etc. from router and
resolve this selectors in the config to ifindexes.
.PP
\fIflowd\fP also can communicate with \fIbgpd\fP daemon and get
information about classes of IP-addresses (local, ukrainian,
russian, world etc.). Without \fIbgpd\fP it can get this information
from access-list stored in the text file.

.SH OPTIONS
.l The \fIflowd\fP accepts the following options:
.TP 8
.B -h
Display a list of all commandline options.
.TP 8
.B -v
Increase verbouse level.
.TP 8
.B -d
Daemonize.
.TP 8
.B -E
Dump preprocessed config and exit.

.SH SIGNALS
.TP 10
.BI SIGHUP
Causes \fIflowd\fP to write collected statistics and reread config.
.TP 10
.BI SIGALRM
Causes \fIflowd\fP to write collected statistics.
.TP 10
.BI SIGUSR1
Causes \fIflowd\fP to reread access-list.
.TP 10
.BI SIGUSR2
Causes \fIflowd\fP to write received traffic to snap-file during 1 min.
.TP 10
.BI SIGINT
Causes \fIflowd\fP to restart itself.

.SH AUTHORS
Pavel Gulchouck <gul@gul.kiev.ua>.