Specify
the server from which you want to display marketing
statistics to business users of WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.
About this task
Marketing Events statistics
are tabulated by counters in
a database. These counters are located in the WebSphere Commerce database
on the production machine, but the data can be copied to a staging
server. Campaign and Product Advisor statistics are always collected
on the production machine, but you can configure the location of the
database used to display the statistics. If WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
is on a staging server that does not have Internet or Intranet access,
and you want to see the statistics, you must copy the statistics from
the production server to the staging server. In this case, you must
configure the staging server as the display source for the statistics
using the Configuration Manager.Procedure
- Open the WebSphere
Commerce master configuration file on the staging server.
- In that file, find the BusinessIntelligence element.
- Update the StatisticsSource attribute value to the
host
name of the machine from which you want to serve campaign statistics.
By default, this is the machine where the WebSphere Commerce
Accelerator is located. You can enter either the host name of the
production server, or of a development server if you do not have access
to the production server through either the Internet or your Intranet.
If you enter the host name of a development server, you will have
to export the statistics from the production server to the specified
development server prior to viewing the statistics. Furthermore if
the machine from which you want to serve statistics is different than
the machine where you originally log in, you should add the port number
to the host name.
- Make the same update to
the following file: WC_eardir/xml/config/wc-server.xml.
That is, update the StatisticsSource attribute of the BusinessIntelligence
element in this file.
- Stop and restart your
WebSphere Commerce instance.
Results
This host
name will be used when business users click any Statistics selections
in WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.What to do next
To view the remote
statistics using Microsoft
Internet Explorer, make sure the browser's privacy setting is low.
This allows the browser to accept the third-party cookies from the
production server.