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Installation and Upgrade Prerequisites

Before you install or upgrade the software, perform the following tasks:

• (Recommended) Review the topology of your network. For example, create a diagram of your network and its connections to ensure that you monitor the correct devices for the traffic that interests you.
• (Recommended) Collect information about the Performance Center deployment, including the locations and IP addresses for all related components.
• Verify that you have access to the servers that host Performance Center and the products you want to monitor. Make sure that all of the products are configured and functioning properly, including flow configuration on the routers.
• Prepare the server as described in the CA Network Flow Analysis Installation Guide or Upgrade Guide.
• Stop other programs from running during the installation or upgrade.
• Restart all servers to ensure that all operating system patches are applied.
• Ensure that no one else is logged in to the server during the installation or upgrade.

Additional Prerequisite Tasks

• Download the installation and upgrade files.
• Installation Order: If you co-install the product with CA Network Flow Analysis, install or upgrade CA Network Flow Analysis before CA Anomaly Detector.
• Check the nsas database.
• Stop the services.
• Back up the database and restart the services.

Download the Installation and Upgrade Files

Copy the files to the installation server whether you plan to install the software locally or remotely. This ensures that you have access to the files

1. Get the files for installing or upgrading the components:
   1. Log in to ca.support.com.
   2. Navigate to the Download Center at ca.support.com: For example, select Download Center from the Support menu in the left pane.
   3. Select the following navigation options:
      • Select a Product: Select 'CA Network Flow Analysis - MULTI-PLATFORM' to display the links for the NFA console, Harvester (Windows), Harvester (Linux), DSA, and CA Anomaly Detector installation and upgrade ISO files.
      • Select a Release: Select '9.3'
      • Select a Gen level: Select '0000'
   4. Download the ISO files from the Product Components list that is displayed.

      Note: An ISO file is an archive file that contains the contents of an optical disk. Each ISO file contains the files for installing or upgrading the component named in the file link.

2. Perform one of the following tasks:
   • Burn the ISO files to a CD-ROM or DVD.
   • Extract the contents of the ISO files by using an ISO image software application. Many ISO image applications are free.
3. Extract the appropriate files to the installation servers:
   • CA Anomaly Detector server
     • ADSetup9.3.0.exe
   • For co-installing on an NFA standalone server, also extract:
     • NFHarvesterSetup9.3.0.exe
     • RAConsoleSetup9.3.0.exe
   • For co-installing on an NFA console server (distributed deployment), also extract:
     • RAConsoleSetup9.3.0.exe

Installation Order

If you are co-installing CA Anomaly Detector on a server with CA Network Flow Analysis, complete the CA Network Flow Analysis installation or upgrade before you install CA Anomaly Detector.

You can install CA Anomaly Detector on the server that hosts a stand-alone CA Network Flow Analysis deployment or the NFA console server in a distributed deployment.