A.0 Appendix: DRA Services

This appendix provides information on DRA services. This helps DRA administrators decide if they can safely disable a service without affecting any DRA functionality.

DRA Service

Description

Safe to disable

NetIQ Administration Service

This service performs all the DRA operations and manages the internal DRA server processes.

No

NetIQ DRA Audit Service

This service handles the Unified Change History requests from the Web Console.

When you disable this service:

  • DRA functionality is not impacted.

  • You will be able to generate Unified Change History reports from the Delegation and Configuration Console.

  • You will not be able to generate Unified Change History reports from the Web Console.

Yes

NetIQ DRA Cache Service

This service acts as a persistent cache for the NetIQ Administration Server.

No

NetIQ DRA Core Service

This service generates reports for DRA consoles and schedules the Active Directory, Office365, DRA, and Resource Collector jobs.

When you disable this service:

  • DRA functionality is not impacted.

  • Collector jobs will not run so data for NRC reports will not be collected.

  • You will not be able to generate Unified Change History reports from any DRA console.

Yes

NetIQ DRA Host Service

This service manages requests from the NetIQ DRA Rest Service and is required for the DRA Web Console and DRA PowerShell cmdlets.

No

NetIQ DRA Log Archive

This service stores all DRA audit events in a secure manner to support audit reporting.

No

NetIQ DRA Replication Service

This service supports the DRA Temporary Group Assignment (TGA) feature. TGAs will not be available on any DRA server where this service is removed or stopped.

Yes

NetIQ DRA Rest Service

The Web Console and PowerShell clients use this service to communicate with the NetIQ Administration Server.

No

NetIQ DRA Secure Storage

This service manages the AD LDS instance of DRA which stores the DRA configuration. It also replicates this configuration data across the MMS setup.

No

NetIQ DRA Skype Service

This service manages all the Skype tasks.

When you disable this service:

  • DRA functionality is not impacted.

  • Skype operations will not be processed.

Yes