Output in JSON format is provided to simplify the parsing of command output when integrating with external platforms and WEB. To do that you should specify an additional option:

--outformat json

For the convenience of working with json, we recommend installing the jq utility:

yum install epel-release
yum-config-manager --disable epel
yum --enablerepo epel install jq

Examples

Formatted output of the result of the command

fdpi_ctrl list all profile --policing --outformat json|jq .

View usage statistics for different policing profiles

fdpi_ctrl list all --policing --outformat json|jq '.lpolicings[].description.name'|sort|uniq -c

or the same in json format by jq

fdpi_ctrl list all --policing --outformat json|jq  '[{ name: .lpolicings[].description.name, login: .login }] | group_by(.name) | .[] | { name: .[0].name, count: . | length}'

For later use, you can turn this into a bash function

function fdpi_policing_stat() { fdpi_ctrl list all --policing --outformat json|jq  '[{ name: .lpolicings[].description.name, login: .login }] | group_by(.name) | .[] | { name: .[0].name, count: . | length}'; }

and then just call this function from the command line

fdpi_policing_stat

For regular use of functions you can save them in a .bash_profile file.