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>