AFD Daemon

The process afdd is a daemon that runs in the background and listens on port AFD_TCP_PORT and waits for requests. This daemon will only run when AFD_TCP_PORT is set in AFD_CONFIG. The following lists of commands are supported by afdd:

Command	Description	Example return code
LRF	Print content of rename rule file.	211- Command successful [fiau] fiau_* * [gisc] ----* %1/%2/%3/%4/%*5 200 End of data
QUIT	Terminate session.	221 Goodbye.
SSTAT	This command should be issued at the start of a session. It will return a summary status report of all hosts when this command is invoked. For the duration of the connection it will activly report any changes that might occur.	211- AFD status summary: IS 0 0 187109699 1558 0 0 0 0 211- AFD host list: NH 3 HL 0 intern localhost EL 0 0 0 0 0 0 HL 1 fss_ 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 EL 1 0 0 0 0 0 HL 2 fiau localhost EL 2 0 0 0 0 0 WD /home/afd/afd2 AV 1.3.0-pre14 MC 120 SR 397 ,,,,, RH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!0,! SH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!000 TH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,,, AM 1 FD 1 AW 1
STAT	Prints statistic of what has been done since last command. A more detailed description of the return code follows below.	211- AFD status summary: IS 0 0 278358 2 0 0 0 0

The meaning of the return code of the STAT and SSTAT commands is described in more details in the following table:

Parameter name

Description

Example

Status of AMG process. Possible values:

-3	Process has been stopped.
0	Not working.
1	Process is up and running.
19	Process is shutting down.

AM 1

Current AFD version.

AV 1.2.22

Status of archive_watch process. Possible values:

-3	Process has been stopped.
0	Not working.
1	Process is up and running.
19	Process is shutting down.

AW 1

A list of host that are in error status. Syntax is as follows:

EL <host_number> <error code 1> ... <error code n>

EL 14 1 3 3 3 3

Status of FD process. Possible values:

-3	Process has been stopped.
0	Not working.
1	Process is up and running.
19	Process is shutting down.

FD 1

Contains information about a certain host. If the AFD serves more then one host, SSTAT will return all host each being separated by a linefeed newline combination. Syntax is as follows:

HL <host_number> <host alias> <real hostname 1> [<real hostname 2>]

HL 24 ducktown 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2

Interval summary, showing what has happened since the last call of STAT or SSTAT. It contains the following information in the given order:

Files to be send
Bytes to be send
Bytes send per second
Files send per second
Total number of errors
Number of error hosts
Number of active transfers
Jobs in queue

IS 0 0 262416988 351021024 0 0 0 0

NMaximum number of connections.

MC 200

Number of hosts.

NH 207

Number of jobs configured.

NJ 1568

Receive log history. The values returned here will be binary with the following meaning:

Sign in log	Binary value	Meaning
<I>	12	Information
<W>	14	Warning
<E>	16	Error

RH ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

System log history. The values returned here will be binary with the following meaning:

Sign in log	Binary value	Meaning
<I>	12	Information
<C>	13	Configuration
<W>	14	Warning
<E>	16	Error
<F>	17	Fatal Error

SH ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,!

Transfer log history. The values returned here will be binary with the following meaning:

Sign in log	Binary value	Meaning
<I>	12	Information
<W>	14	Warning
<E>	16	Error

TH ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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