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Run the CA Application Delivery Analysis Setup Program

Run the CA Application Delivery Analysis setup program to install the CA Virtual Systems Monitor on the virtual machine. Before you run the setup program, make sure you can access the virtual machine by Remote Desktop.

The CA Application Delivery Analysis setup program is included with the CA Application Delivery Analysis .iso download file. If necessary, download the CA Application Delivery Analysis .iso from the CA Support website at http://ca.com/support.

Before you run the CA Application Delivery Analysis setup program, create a snapshot of the virtual machine so that, if necessary, you can uninstall the CA Virtual Systems Monitor. The CA Application Delivery Analysis setup program does not uninstall the CA Virtual Systems Monitor; you must revert to the previous (pre-installation) snapshot to remove it. For information about taking a snapshot of the virtual machine, see your VMware documentation.

Follow these steps:

1. Log into the virtual machine as a user with Administrator privileges.
2. Verify that the CA Application Delivery Analysis setup program has permission to run. To complete this step, right-click the setup executable file and click Properties. From this dialog box, click the Unblock button (if available) and click OK.
3. Run the CA Application Delivery Analysis Setup program. The setup program prompts you for the following:

   End-user License Agreement

   Accept the license agreement to proceed with the installation.

   Installation path

   Install the CA Virtual Systems Monitor to C:\CA.

   Choose Type of Installation

   Click Virtual Systems Monitor to install the CA Virtual Systems Monitor.

4. After the setup program completes, you must restart the guest operating system.
5. Log back into the guest operating system and verify that the CA Virtual Systems Monitor is seeing SPAN traffic.