Installing Forcepoint DLP

Applies to:
  • Forcepoint DLP, v8.5.x, v8.6.x, v8.7.x, v8.8.x, v8.9.x, v9.0, v10.0, v10.1

Installing Forcepoint DLP involves, at minimum, two basic steps:

  1. Install the Forcepoint Management Infrastructure. This includes the Forcepoint Security Manager, settings database, and reporting database.
  2. Install Forcepoint DLP management components. This includes the a policy engine, crawler, fingerprint repository, forensics repository, and endpoint server.

After the management components have been installed, additional Forcepoint DLP servers and components may be installed on servers, appliances, cloud infrastructures, or endpoint client machines.

  • See the System requirements for this version to find the hardware and operating system requirements for Forcepoint DLP components.
  • See the Forcepoint DLP Installation Guide for step-by-step installation instruction for the management server and additional components.

The Installation Guide also covers how to add, modify, and remove components.