About the Control Compliance Suite Data Processing Service

The Control Compliance Suite Data Processing Service (DPS) is a single service that performs up to four different duties in the Control Compliance Suite. Each of these duties is called a role. Which role the DPS serves depends on how the DPS is registered. The DPS runs as a Windows Service. A single instance of the service can provide more than one role simultaneously. Normally, a Control Compliance Suite deployment includes many servers that each hosts a DPS installation. When a deployment contains multiple DPS installations, each DPS performs a single role.

In the Services control panel, the service is listed as the Symantec Data Processing Service.

The Data Processing Service performs the following roles:

Load Balancer

See About the Data Processing Service Load Balancer.
Collector

See About the Data Processing Service Collector.
Evaluator

See About the Data Processing Service Evaluator.
Reporter

See About the Data Processing Service Reporter.

When you install a Data Processing Service, you must have local administrator-equivalent privileges.

The account you provide for a Data Processing Service to use must be a local administrator-equivalent account on the computer that hosts the service. The account can be an Active Directory user account or a local Windows user account.