System Requirements

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

  • The ESA appliance, v10.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
25400TCPRPAgent on the Data Warehouse Protector nodeESAThe RPAgent communicates with the ESA through this port 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.
15780 and 15781TCPProtector on the Data Warehouse Protector nodeLog Forwarder on the Data Warehouse Protector nodeThe Data Warehouse Protector writes Audit Logs to localhost through this port. The Application Logs are also written to localhost through this port. The Log Forwarder reads the logs from that socket.
  • Additional requirements for each of the Teradata node:
    • The pcl and rpsync utitlies are installed.
    • Approximately 30% of free hard drive space is available.
    • Network connectivity is available on every node.
    • DBA rights on the Teradata database is available.
    • Sudo access on the operating system is available.
    • The Database Server is up and running.
    • The C-compiler is installed. It is required 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.

Supported Data Warehouse Protectors Matrix

The below table lists the Data Warehouse protectors with the supported Data Warehouse version and platform details:

ProtectorSupported Data Warehouse VersionSupported Platforms
Teradata Data Warehouse ProtectorTeradata 17.05SLES 12
Teradata 17.10SLES 12
Teradata 17.20SLES 12
Teradata 20.00SLES 15

Last modified : May 08, 2026