System Requirements

Ensure that the following prerequisites are met, before installing the Teradata Data Warehouse Protector:

  • The ESA appliance, v10.0.x or higher, is installed, configured, and running.
  • The ports that are configured on the ESA and the nodes in the cluster, which will run the Data Warehouse Protector, are listed in the following table:
Destination PortProtocolSourceDestinationDescription
8443TCPRP Agent on the Data Warehouse Protector nodeESAThe RP Agent communicates with the ESA through port
8443 to download a policy.
9200TCPLog Forwarder on the Data Warehouse Protector nodeProtegrity Audit
Store appliance
The Log Forwarder sends all the logs to
the Protegrity Audit Appliance through port 9200.
15780TCPProtector on the Data Warehouse Protector nodeLog Forwarder on the Data Warehouse Protector nodeThe Data Warehouse Protector writes Audit Logs to localhost through port 15780. The Application Logs are also written to localhost through port 15780. The Log Forwarder reads the logs from that socket.
  • Additional requirements for each of the Teradata node:

    • Approximately 40 MB of free hard drive space should be available.
    • Every node must have network connectivity. This means that you should be able to access the node through the network using TCP/IP.
    • Ensure that you have the DBA rights in the Teradata database.
    • Ensure that you have the root access to the operating system.
    • The Database Server must be up and running.
    • The C-compiler must be installed. It is used to install the UDFs in the Teradata database.

    Note: For more information about configuring access roles to execute the DBA queries, refer to Additional references for the Teradata Protector.

    Note: If the Teradata Parallel Upgrade Tool (PUT) is unavailable, then the Data Warehouse Protector packages must be manually transferred and installed on each node.

The following table lists the minimum hardware configuration for the Data Warehouse Protector on Teradata distribution.

Hardware ComponentsConfiguration
CPUDepends on the application.
Disk Space400 MB on every node - Includes the Log Forwarder, RP Agent, and User Defined Functions (UDFs)
RAM4 GB on every node

Note: In v10.0.0, the RPAgent loads the policy package into the shared memory. Every individual service process on a node that initializes the protector will load a copy of the policy package into the process heap memory. Therefore, the RAM requirement on each node depends on the policy size and the number of protector instances (number of processes).


Last modified : February 20, 2026