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Installation Guide
An installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, configure, and deploy the HCL Unica products . The Installation Guide provides detailed information about installing, configuring, and deploying the products.
Installation overview
An installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, configure, and deploy the HCL Unica products . The Installation Guide provides detailed information about installing, configuring, and deploying the products.
Modes of installation
The Unica suite installer can run in one of the following modes: GUI mode, X Window System mode, console mode, or silent mode (also called the unattended mode). Select a mode that suits your requirements when you install Unica Plan .

Installation Guides
- Installation Guide
  An installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, configure, and deploy the HCL Unica products . The Installation Guide provides detailed information about installing, configuring, and deploying the products.
  - Installation overview
    An installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, configure, and deploy the HCL Unica products . The Installation Guide provides detailed information about installing, configuring, and deploying the products.
    - Installation Roadmap
      Use the installation roadmap to quickly find the information that you need for installing Unica Plan.
    - How the installers work
      You must use the suite installer and the product installer when you install or upgrade any Unica product. For example, for installing Unica Plan, you must use the Unica suite installer and the Unica Plan installer.
    - Modes of installation
      The Unica suite installer can run in one of the following modes: GUI mode, X Window System mode, console mode, or silent mode (also called the unattended mode). Select a mode that suits your requirements when you install Unica Plan .
    - Unica Plan documentation and help
      The following table describes the various tasks in the installation of Unica Plan.
  - Planning the Unica Plan installation
    When you plan your Unica Plan installation, ensure that you have set up your system correctly, and that you have configured your environment to deal with any failures.
  - Preparing the data sources for Plan
    You can use the Unica Plan worksheet to enter the information that is required when you install Unica Plan.
  - Installing Unica Plan
    You must run the Unica installer to start the installation of Plan. 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.
  - Configuring Plan before deployment
    Complete the configuration tasks before you deploy the web application.
  - Deploying Plan
    There are general guidelines for deploying Unica Plan on WebSphere® and WebLogic.
  - Configuring Plan after deployment
    After you deploy and start the Unica Plan application, log in and verify the installation. There are some basic configuration steps such as configuring the system user and a test user, setting up email and markup.
  - Installing reports
    Unica Plan supports integration with both IBM Cognos and Unica Insights.
  - Installing Plan in a cluster
    You can install Plan in a cluster by completing additional tasks while installing Plan.
  - Uninstalling Unica Plan
    Run the Unica Plan uninstaller to uninstall Unica Plan. 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.
  - The configTool utility
    The properties and values on the Configuration page are stored in the Unica Platform system tables. You can use the configTool utility to import and export configuration settings to and from the system tables.
  - Unica Plan configuration properties
    The Unica Plan configuration properties on available on the Settings > Configuration page. For more details on the configuration properties, see the Plan Administrator Guide.

Modes of installation

The Unica suite installer can run in one of the following modes: GUI mode, X Window System mode, console mode, or silent mode (also called the unattended mode). Select a mode that suits your requirements when you install Unica Plan .

For upgrades, you use the installer to perform many of the same tasks that you perform during the initial installation.

GUI X Window System mode mode

Use the GUI mode for Windows™ or the X Window System mode for UNIX™ to install Unica Plan by using the graphical user interface.

UNIX™ X Window System mode

Use the X Window System mode for UNIX™ to install Unica Plan by using the graphical user interface.

Console mode

Use the console mode to install Unica Plan by using the command line window.

Note: To display the Installer screens correctly in console mode, configure your terminal software to support UTF-8 character encoding. Other character encoding, such as ANSI, will not render the text correctly, and some information will not be readable.

Silent mode

Use the silent or unattended mode to install Unica Plan multiple times. The silent mode uses response files for installation, and does not require user input during the installation process.

Note: Silent mode is not supported for upgrade installations in clustered web application or clustered listener environments.

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