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Complete Post-Installation Tasks

You may want to complete a number of additional administrative tasks, depending on your environment and on the number of users you have. Some tasks should be completed as soon as CA Network Flow Analysis is up and running. Consider the following tasks:

• Verify that required settings are complete

  Make sure that you have completed all the installation tasks. Certain settings are required to enable functionality, such as emailing reports and triggering SNMP traps.

• Adjust settings to improve performance

  Certain report settings can affect performance, such as the frequency of DNS host name resolution.

• Check interface speeds

  If interfaces are at or above 100 percent utilization in the NFA console (for example, as seen on the Enterprise Overview page), consider adjusting the interface speeds. Additional information about editing interface settings is in Expire Stale Addresses.

• Control router display

  In a multi-domain environment, you can exclude domains from the display to control which routers are displayed in the NFA console.

• Disable monitoring of router-generated traffic

  If you do not want reports to show broadcast traffic for each router, change the Pump Broadcast/Multicast application setting to False.

• Monitor product components

  The Watchdog services help you monitor components. Make sure that the appropriate settings are configured to notify you of component issues as soon as possible: Specify thresholds, an email address for receiving messages, and other settings. Additional information is in How to Monitor Network Flow Analysis Components.

• Adjust security settings

  To export reports to comma-separated value (CSV) files successfully, the security settings in your environment may make it necessary to add the IP address of the NFA console to your list of trusted sites.