Installing the Management API on a Linux server

Before you begin

When you install Forcepoint Web Security components on a Linux server, Management API components are automatically copied to the installation directory. They are not, however, automatically registered with the system and run.

To complete the Management API installation process:

Steps

  1. Verify that:
    • Policy Server is running on the Linux server that will also host the Management API.
    • The libgnutls.so.26 library is installed on the server.
  2. Log in to the system as root.
  3. Navigate to the Forcepoint Web Security installation directory:
    cd /opt/Websense/bin
  4. Run the following command:
    ./PolicyApiServerAdmin.sh -i

    Management API components are installed, a server certificate is generated, and the services are started.

  5. When the installation process is complete, use the following command to verify system status:
    ./PolicyApiServerAdmin.sh --status

    The command should return:

    WsUrlQuery (pid xxxx) is running...

    CatEngineMonitor.sh (pid xxxx) is running...

    Policy API Server is running

  6. Repeat this process for each Linux-based Policy Server instance.

Next steps

As part of the installation process, a server certificate is created to enable HTTPS communication with the Management API. If you need to update or replace the default certificate for API instances on Linux servers, see Updating the HTTPS server certificate.

To continue with the setup process, see Enabling communication between Management API clients and servers.