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Installing Unica Audience Central
You must run the Unica installer to start the installation of Audience Central. The Unica installer starts the product installer during the installation process. Make sure that the Unica installer and the product installer are saved at the same location.

Upgrade Guide
- Installation overview
  The installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, deploy, and configure the HCL Unica products.
- Planning the Unica Audience Central installation
  When you plan your Unica Audience Central installation, ensure the following:
- Configuring the web application server for your JDBC driver
  The web application server where you plan to deploy Unica Audience Central must contain the correct JAR file to support JDBC connections. This enables your web application to connect to the system tables. The location of the JAR file must be included in the class path of the web application server.
- Installing Unica Audience Central
  You must run the Unica installer to start the installation of Audience Central. The Unica installer starts the product installer during the installation process. Make sure that the Unica installer and the product installer are saved at the same location.
  - Installing Unica Audience Central in GUI mode
    For Windows™, use the GUI mode to install Audience Central. For UNIX™, use the X Window System mode to install Audience Central.
  - Installing Unica Audience Central in console mode
    The console mode allows you to install Unica Audience Central command-line window. You can select various options in the command-line window to complete tasks such as selecting the products to install or selecting the home directory for the installation.
  - Installing Unica Audience Central in silent mode
    Use the unattended or silent mode to install Unica Audience Central multiple times.
  - Installation prompt windows
    During the installation of Unica Audience Central, several prompt windows display. After you enter the required information, prompt windows display your responses and require a confirmation before you continue. Prompt windows give you the opportunity to make corrections, if needed.
- Deploying Unica Audience Central
  There are general guidelines for deploying Unica Audience Central.
- Configuration of Unica Audience Central after Deployment
  After you deploy and start the Unica Audience Central application, log in and verify the installation. There are some basic configuration steps you must perform.
- Administration of Unica Audience Central
  After installing Unica Audience Central, the administrator must complete a few procedures to activate and use Unica Audience Central.
- Uninstalling Unica Audience Central
  To uninstall Unica Audience Central, run the uninstaller. When you run the uninstaller, the files that were created during the installation process are removed. For example, files such as configuration files, installer registry information, and user data are removed from the computer.

Installing Unica Audience Central

You must run the Unica installer to start the installation of Audience Central. The Unica installer starts the product installer during the installation process. Make sure that the Unica installer and the product installer are saved at the same location.

Each time that you run the Unica suite installer, you must first enter database connection information for the Platform system tables. When the installer starts, you must enter the required information for Campaign.

Note:

The Unica installer requires information about Platform.

After installing Audience Central, you can create an EAR file for your product, and you can install the reports package for your product. Creating the EAR file and installing the reports package are not mandatory actions.

Important: Before you install Audience Central, make sure that the available temporary space on the computer where you install Campaign is more than three times the size of the Audience Central installer.

Installation files

The installation files are named according to the version of the product and the operating system on which they must be installed, except UNIX™. For UNIX™, different installation files exist for the X Window System mode and the console mode.

The following table displays examples of the installation files that are named according to the product version and the operating system:

Table 1. Installation files
Operating system	Installation file
Windows™: GUI and console mode	`Unica_AudienceCentral`_`12.1.7.0`_win.exe
UNIX™: X Window System mode	`Unica_AudienceCentral`_`12.1.7.0`_linux.bin
UNIX™: Console mode	`Unica_AudienceCentral`_`12.1.7.0`_linux.bin

Note: Although we have introduced support for PostgreSQL in 12.1.7, it is available only for clean installation of 12.1.7 and not when upgrading to 12.1.7.

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