Protector installation prerequisites

Before installing the protector:

• Make sure the hardware that will host the protector soft appliance meets the requirements specified in System requirements for this version.
• Make sure that firewalls and other access control devices on the network do not block ports used by the protector to communicate with the Forcepoint DLP server.

  For port requirements, see Forcepoint DLP ports (the “Protector” section).

• The protector device must have visibility into both incoming and outgoing traffic in the monitored segment.

  If incoming and outgoing traffic are on separate links, the mirror port must be configured to send traffic from both links to the protector.

• Make sure the protector machine can communicate with the management server, and vice-versa.