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Required Services

The CA Standard Monitor automatically starts the services listed below.

Warning: To avoid data loss, do not attempt to manually stop or restart these services. For assistance, contact CA Support at http://support.ca.com.

• CA ADA Monitor Management. Responds to requests from the management console to transfer .dat files from the monitor to the management console.
• CA ADA Data Transfer Manager. Synchronizes monitoring with Cisco WAE devices based on the applications, servers, and client networks defined on the CA Standard Monitor.
• CA ADA Inspector Agent. If the server that hosts an application is monitored by a CA Standard Monitor, the CA ADA Inspector Agent service on the monitor launches investigations on the application, server, and related networks. Otherwise, the CA ADA Inspector Agent service on the management console launches the investigations.
• CA ADA Messenger service. Synchronizes monitoring with the applications, servers, and client networks defined on the CA Standard Monitor.
• CA ADA Monitor. Located on the management console or CA Standard Monitor, this service receives mirrored TCP packets and digest files from its assigned monitoring devices, such as a CA GigaStor.
• CA ADA Batch. Stages .dat data files on the CA Standard Monitor for processing by the CA ADA Master Batch service on the management console.