Parse the output of the command that retrieves the connection state (either `ss` or `netstat`)
        Returns a dict metric_name -> value

def _parse_linux_cx_state(self, lines, tcp_states, state_col, protocol=None, ip_version=None):
        """
        Parse the output of the command that retrieves the connection state (either `ss` or `netstat`)
        Returns a dict metric_name -> value
        """
        metrics = {}
        for _, val in iteritems(self.cx_state_gauge):
            metrics[val] = 0
        for l in lines:
            cols = l.split()
            if cols[0].startswith('tcp') or protocol == 'tcp':
                proto = "tcp{0}".format(ip_version) if ip_version else ("tcp4", "tcp6")[cols[0] == "tcp6"]
                if cols[state_col] in tcp_states:
                    metric = self.cx_state_gauge[proto, tcp_states[cols[state_col]]]
                    metrics[metric] += 1
            elif cols[0].startswith('udp') or protocol == 'udp':
                proto = "udp{0}".format(ip_version) if ip_version else ("udp4", "udp6")[cols[0] == "udp6"]
                metric = self.cx_state_gauge[proto, 'connections']
                metrics[metric] += 1

        return metrics