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Add One or More Harvesters

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

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 domain for the Harvester and its interfaces.

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

   Note: Assign the appropriate domain when you add the Harvester. If you have not set up the domains you intend to use, register CA Network Flow Analysis with CA Performance Center and set up the domains before you add the Harvesters.

   Routers are assigned to the domain that their parent Harvester has when the routers are configured. Router domain assignments cannot be changed by using the Administration page functions. If you change the Harvester domain later, the routers that are configured after the change are associated with the new domain. Although you cannot change the domain assignment for a router, you can change the domain of the interfaces that are associated with the router.

5. Click Save.

   The new Harvester is added and appears in the Harvester list, provided 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 9.1.2 after deleting it, the Harvester installation server must be re-imaged and the Harvester software must be re-installed.