Software Secure Workload
Activity Configure

Show System Commands

Execute a system command and optionally grep for a specified pattern. The controller on the appliance/connector service returns the result (tailed for the last 5000 lines). Optionally, a grep pattern can be provided as argument and the output is filtered accordingly. When the result is available at Secure Workload, the result is shown in a text box.

Argument Name

Type

Description

System Command

dropdown

System command to execute

  • IP configuration

ifconfig
  • IP route configuration

ip route
  • IP packet filtering rules

iptables -L
  • Network status

netstat
  • Network status (EL9)

ss
  • Process status

ps -aux
  • List of top processes

top -b -n 1
  • NTP status

ntpstat
  • Chrony status (EL9)

chronyc tracking
  • Chrony query (EL9)

chronyc sources
  • CPU info

lscpu
  • Memory info

lsmem
  • Disk free

df -H

Grep Pattern

string

Pattern string to grep from the output

Allowed Secure Workload virtual appliances: All

Allowed connectors: NetFlow, NetScaler, F5, AnyConnect, Syslog, Email, Slack, PagerDuty, Kinesis, ISE, ASA, and Meraki.

Show system command on Secure Workload Ingest appliance to retrieve list of top processes
Figure 1: Show system command on Secure Workload Ingest appliance to retrieve list of top processes