IPSEC-GLOBALSTATUS(8)

💖 IPSEC-GLOBALSTATUS 💖

okay bestie, gather round, we're doing a man page and it's literally about the ipsec-globalstatus command — that's the one that pulls global status info out of the IPsec daemon, aka pluto. section 8, admin tools, you know the vibe 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ipsec-globalstatus — get global status information from the IPsec daemon (pluto) 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ipsec globalstatus [--ctlsocket /run/pluto/pluto.ctl]

like. that's it. that's the whole entrance. no cap 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so globalstatus grabs the global status information from the IPsec daemon, and that daemon's name is pluto 💜 that's it, that's the job, she's an icon.

and lowkey? this info is likely interesting only for statistics purposes 👑 so don't come here expecting to debug your tunnel drama — this one is for the numbers girlies, the dashboard gremlins, the people who love a counter. 📊

the one knob you've got:

• --ctlsocket /run/pluto/pluto.ctl — this is the control socket you're pointing at, and the synopsis writes it out exactly like that: --ctlsocket /run/pluto/pluto.ctl. that's the path, that's the flag, keep them glued together 🦋

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, fr fr, and yes there's like a million of them, we're listing every single one because nobody gets left behind 💖

• ipsec.conf(5)
• ipsec(8)
• ipsec-add(8)
• ipsec-algparse(8)
• ipsec-briefconnectionstatus(8)
• ipsec-briefstatus(8)
• ipsec-certutil(8)
• ipsec-checkconfig(8)
• ipsec-checknflog(8)
• ipsec-checknss(8)
• ipsec-connectionstatus(8)
• ipsec-crlutil(8)
• ipsec-delete(8)
• ipsec-down(8)
• ipsec-ecdsasigkey(8)
• ipsec-fetchcrls(8)
• ipsec-fipsstatus(8)
• ipsec-import(8)
• ipsec-initnss(8)
• ipsec-letsencrypt(8)
• ipsec-listall(8)
• ipsec-listcacerts(8)
• ipsec-listcerts(8)
• ipsec-listcrls(8)
• ipsec-listen(8)
• ipsec-listpubkeys(8)
• ipsec-modutil(8)
• ipsec-newhostkey(8)
• ipsec-ondemand(8)
• ipsec-pk12util(8)
• ipsec-pluto(8)
• ipsec-purgeocsp(8)
• ipsec-redirect(8)
• ipsec-replace(8)
• ipsec-rereadall(8)
• ipsec-rereadcerts(8)
• ipsec-rereadsecrets(8)
• ipsec-restart(8)
• ipsec-route(8)
• ipsec-rsasigkey(8)
• ipsec-setup(8)
• ipsec-showhostkey(8)
• ipsec-showroute(8)
• ipsec-showstates(8)
• ipsec-shuntstatus(8)
• ipsec-start(8)
• ipsec-status(8)
• ipsec-stop(8)
• ipsec-trafficstatus(8)
• ipsec-unroute(8)
• ipsec-up(8)
• ipsec-vfychain(8)
• ipsec-whack(8)

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💀 BUGS 💀

none 💅

like, genuinely none. not a single one. we love a flawless queen. periodt. ✨

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Andrew Cagney, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Tuomo Soini — the three of them, legends, absolutely ate 👑

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okay and for the lil sign-off: this whole vibe check came from Libreswan 5.4.1, dated 10/23/2026 🌸 so if you're reading this from the future, hi, hope pluto's doing great, mwah 💜🧚