About Data Processing Service roles

The Data Processing Service (DPS) must be assigned one or more roles within the Control Compliance Suite. The assigned role or roles control what tasks the DPS performs in your Control Compliance Suite deployment. Any DPS can be assigned to multiple roles, but more often a DPS plays a single role.

A DPS can be assigned to one or more of the following roles:

For information on how to choose which DPS computers to assign to which roles, see the Symantec Control Compliance Suite Planning and Deployment Guide.