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IPCAD(8)               DragonFly System Manager's Manual              IPCAD(8)

NAME
     ipcad - IP accounting daemon with Cisco-like ip accounting export

SYNOPSIS
     ipcad [-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 ipcad

EXAMPLE
     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 ALSO
     ipcad.conf(5).

AUTHORS
     Lev Walkin <vlm@lionet.info>

                                 May 25, 2001