Add One or More Harvesters

Add one or more Harvesters to enable data to be processed and displayed.

Prerequisite:

Recommendation: If you have not already done so, register CA Network Flow Analysis with CA Performance Center and set up the domains before you add any Harvesters.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the NFA console, logged in with Administrator rights. For example, enter the following address in a browser:

   http://<ipaddress>/ra/

   User name: admin

   Password: admin

2. Open the Harvester page:
   1. Select Administration from the NFA console menu.

      The Administration page opens.

   2. Select System: Harvester from the Administration page menu.

      The Harvester page opens and displays the current list of Harvesters.

3. Click Add.

   The Add Harvester dialog opens.

4. Enter the following information:

   IP Address

   Address of the Harvester server.

   Description

   Identifying text about the Harvester, which appears in the Harvester page table.

   Domain

   Parent tenant and domain combination for the Harvester and for any newly active routers and interfaces that supply data to the Harvester.

   Changing this setting affects the tenant-domain association for new routers that begin exporting flow data and any new interfaces that begin generating flow.

   The tenant affects which SNMP profiles are available for routers to poll interfaces. (The tenant setting is applicable only if the CA Network Flow Analysis deployment is registered as a data source for CA Performance Center.)

   The domain affects which operators and reports have access to the data from routers and interfaces.

   This option is visible only in an environment that contains multiple domains.

5. Click Save.

   The new Harvester is added and appears in the Harvester list, provided that the IP address passes the connection test. If the test connection to the web service fails, an error message opens.

   The usual process is to add one or more Harvesters, then configure the router interfaces to export flow to the Harvesters. If you configure the routers to export flow to the Harvesters first, the NFA console immediately begins to collect data from the new Harvester. In this case, the domain for the routers is set at the time you add the parent Harvester.

Note: Make sure the Harvesters you add have not been deleted from the Harvester page previously. To add a Harvester instance successfully in CA Network Flow Analysis 9.1.3 after deleting it, the Harvester installation server must be re-imaged and the Harvester software must be re-installed.