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Stop the Services

To prepare for backing up the databases, stop the services on all of the Windows servers in your CA Network Flow Analysis deployment.

Follow these steps:

  1. Open the Services window: Click Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services.
  2. Stop the Harvester service (NetQoS Harvester service or CA NFA Harvester) on each Harvester server.
  3. Wait 15 minutes for data file processing to complete.
  4. Stop the CA Network Flow Analysis services on each server:

Service

Stand-Alone

Harvester

Console

DSA

CA NFA Collection and Poller Webservices (Linux: nfa_collpollws)

Yes

Yes

 

 

CA NFA Data Retention (Linux: nfa_dataretention)

Yes

Yes

 

Yes

CA NFA DNS/SNMP Proxies (Linux: nfa_proxies)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

CA NFA DSALoader

 

 

 

Yes

CA NFA File Server (Linux: nfa_filewebservice)

Yes

Yes

Yes (3-tier)

 

CA NFA Harvester (Linux: nfa_harvester)

Yes

Yes

 

 

CA NFA Poller (Linux: nfa_poller)

Yes

Yes

 

 

CA NFA Pump

 

 

 

Yes

CA NFA Reaper (Linux: nfa_reaper)

 

Yes

 

 

CA NFA RibSource

Yes

 

Yes

 

NetQoS MySql51 (Linux: mysql51)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NetQoS NQMySql51 (Linux: nfa_mysqlCSE)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NetQoS Reporter Manager Service

Yes

 

Yes

 

NetQoS Reporter/Analyzer General Services

Yes

 

Yes

 

NetQoS Reporter/Analyzer Pump Service

Yes

 

Yes

 

NetQoS Reporter/Analyzer Query Services

Yes

 

Yes

 

NetQoS Reporter/Analyzer Report Service

Yes

 

Yes

 

NetQoS Reporter/Analyzer Watchdog

Yes

 

Yes

 

The services and data collection stop. The data files are processed within 15 minutes.

  1. Check the following directory on the NFA console server:

    <install_path>\Netflow\datafiles\HarvesterWork

    When the HarvesterWork directory is empty, back up the databases.