Upgrade Considerations

CA Application Delivery Analysis 10.2 is a data source for:

Before you upgrade, consider the following:

Review the release notes for important information about what this release provides, including known issues with the upgrade.
When upgrading a Standalone deployment, the upgrade process converts the management console to a Distributed management console. After the upgrade, the management console continues to provide SPAN monitoring support on its Monitor port. CA no longer provides a Standalone management console.
When upgrading from CA ADA 9.2 or 9.3, the Standard Monitor and the ADA Manager must both be upgraded to 10.2 to work properly. While the ADA Manager and a Standard Monitor are at different versions, the data collected by the monitoring device is not available for reporting.
As part of the upgrade process, in addition to upgrading CA Application Delivery Analysis, plan to upgrade the following products, if installed, to the supported versions listed below:
- CA Multi-Port Monitor version 10.0 or higher.
- NI GigaStor with NI Observer version 17, and the updated CA GigaStor Connector provided with CA Application Delivery Analysis version 10.2.