Installation overview

Before beginning the installation process, refer to the Deployment and Installation Center for complete system requirements and required system preparation steps.

The process of installing Forcepoint components is as follows:

Steps

  1. Ensure that a supported version of Microsoft SQL Server (not Express) is installed and running in your network.
  2. The machine with the standalone or primary Policy Broker and its companion Policy Server instance must be configured first. These web components must be running before any other web components can be installed:
    • If Policy Broker will reside on a full policy source appliance, configure that appliance first.
    • If Policy Broker and Policy Server will reside on a Windows or Linux server that is not the management server, install these components before the management server installation. Install the software version if you plan to use Policy Broker replication.

      It is also recommended that you install an instance of Filtering Service on this machine.

    See Installing the Forcepoint Web Security policy source.

  3. Install and run the firstboot script on your appliances.
  4. Install Forcepoint management and core Forcepoint DLP components on a Windows Server machine.

    On the Installation Type screen, select all three modules (Web, Data, and Email) under the Security Manager.

    See Creating the Management Server

  5. Install Web and Email Log Server.

    In deployments that include the Forcepoint Web Security Hybrid Module, Sync Service is typically installed with Web Log Server.

    See Install Web Log Server and Install Email Log Server.

  6. Install additional components (such as web transparent identification agents or Forcepoint DLP agents) as needed.

    See Installing web components and Installing data components.

Next steps

After completing the installation process, follow the initial configuration steps in the Deployment and Installation Center.