Missing /opt/CA/VNA/data/ID_CACHE.dat and /opt/CA/VNA/data/REMOTE_VNA_CACHE.dat

Products

• CA Virtual Network Assurance

Issue/Introduction

What are these files for? Is it normal for an environment not to have them?

 

/opt/CA/VNA/data/ID_CACHE.dat

/opt/CA/VNA/data/REMOTE_VNA_CACHE.dat

 

The documentation says to back them up: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/dx-netops/20-2/Modern-Network-Monitoring-with-DX-Virtual-Network-Assurance/administrating/back-up-and-restore.html

Environment

Release : 20.2

Component : Virtual Network Assurance For CA Performance Management

Resolution

These files are legacy files and will only be seen if the environment was upgraded from 3.6 and before.  If your environment does not have then, you can ignore the step.