Controlling Adapters

The communication channels between CA Business Service Insight and the adapters can be started, stopped and managed as required.

Each adapter has three action buttons:

	Start	Click Start to start the communication channel with the adapter, as described in Starting Adapters.
	Stop	Click Stop to disconnect the communication channel to the adapter, as described in Stopping Adapters.

The status of each adapter is indicated under the status column in the Adapters page. The following table describes the available adapter statuses:

Status	Description
Inactive	Initial state. The adapter is inactive. The adapter has not started.
Listener Inactive	The adapter listener service has not started.
Starting	The adapter is starting.
Started	The adapter has started.
Stopping	The adapter is stopping
Not running	The adapter is not running on the adapter's computer.
Error	Error in the adapter's configuration file, the adapter cannot start.
Connection error	Error connecting the adapter (wrong host/port), or before the adapter runs for the first time and no signal is detected. When running the adapter for the first time, this is the status.
Blocked	The maximum number of rejected events was reached.