Installing Supplemental Forcepoint DLP Servers

After Forcepoint DLP has been installed on the management server (as described in Installing the Management Server), supplemental Forcepoint DLP servers can be installed to distribute analysis load.

Important: Before installing a supplemental server, make sure that the Forcepoint Management Infrastructure and Forcepoint DLP management components are already installed.

Do not install any Forcepoint DLP component on a domain controller.

Medium to large organizations may require more than one Forcepoint DLP server to perform content analysis efficiently. Having multiple Forcepoint DLP servers improves performance and allows for custom load balancing, as well as providing for organizational growth.

The following components are included on supplemental Forcepoint DLP servers:

Policy engine
Secondary fingerprint repository (the primary is on the management server)
Endpoint server
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) server
Crawler
Note: In production environments, do not install a Forcepoint DLP server on a Microsoft Exchange, Forefront TMG, or print server. These systems require abundant resources.