Cleanup the NFA working folders - Disk Space challenges

Products

• Network Flow Analysis

Issue/Introduction

In some situations it is necessary to do a cleanup in the NFA folder's such as well you are running into disk space issues..

Cause

This can be caused if NFA flow rate is higher then expected.  See System Recommendations and Requirements:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/dx-netops/24-3/Flow-Monitoring-with-Network-Flow-Analysis/installing/system-recommendations-and-requirements.html 

Resolution

Please, try to do the following:
Stop all NFA Services on all boxes:

Windows Scripts: 
Harvester: :\CA\NFA\Tools\harvester_services.bat stop

Console: :\CA\NFA\Tools\console_services.bat stop

 

 

Linux Script:

Harvester: /opt/CA/NFA/Tools/harvester-services.sh stop

 

Remove all files from: (if you are working on distributed environment the some files/folders are in another box)

:\CA\NFA\Reporter\datafiles\input  (except Staging folder)

:\CA\NFA\Reporter\datafiles\input\Staging

:\CA\NFA\Netflow\datafiles\NFMInput

:\CA\NFA\Netflow\datafiles\ReaperInput (Don't remove reaperinput files unless they are very old or .BAD files)

:\CA\NFA\Netflow\datafiles\ReaperWork

:\CA\NFA\Netflow\datafiles\HarvesterWork

 

Start all NFA Services  on all boxes:

Windows Scripts: 
Harvester: :\CA\NFA\Tools\harvester_services.bat start
Console: :\CA\NFA\Tools\console_services.bat start
 
Linux Script:
Harvester: /opt/CA/NFA/Tools/harvester-services.sh start