Stop Services on Linux Servers
To prepare for the database backups, stop the services on the Linux Harvester servers that are in your
Flow Monitoring
deployment.Follow these steps:
- Log in as root or with a sudo user account.
- Stop the nfa_harvester (Flow MonitoringHarvester) service on each Linux Harvester server.
- Wait 15 minutes for data file processing to complete.
- Stop the following services on each Linux Harvester server:
- mysql (NetQoS MySQL)
- nfa_collpollws (Flow MonitoringCollection and Poller Webservices)
- nfa_dataretention (Flow MonitoringData Retention)
- nfa_filewebservice (Flow MonitoringFile Server)
- nfa_mysqlCSE (NetQoS NQMySql Custom Storage Engine
- nfa_poller (Flow MonitoringPoller)
- nfa_proxies (Flow MonitoringDNS/SNMP Proxies)
- nfa_reaper (Flow MonitoringReaper)
The services stop. - Wait 15 minutes for the Time BIN (.tbn) file collection and processing to complete.
- Check the following directory on the NFA console server:<install_path>\Netflow\datafiles\HarvesterWorkWhen theHarvesterWorkdirectory is empty, you can back up the database. The services are restarted automatically during the upgrade process.