Installing Marketing Platform in a cluster

Marketing Platform supports an IBM WebSphere Application Server cluster deployment. Clustering is not supported on WebLogic.

Process overview

The following steps are an overview of the process for setting up a Marketing Platform cluster deployment.

  1. Set up WebSphere clusters on two or more servers.
  2. Create a profile for the primary node in WebSphere.
  3. Create WebSphere cluster nodes.
  4. Create a WebSphere cluster
  5. Add existing nodes to the cluster (optional)
  6. Start the nodes, web server, and cluster
  7. Create JDBC providers
  8. Install and deploy HCL® Marketing Software products
  9. Configure the HCL® HTTP Server as a load balancer
  10. Configure Marketing Platform logs.

Prerequisites

The following are prerequisites that must be met before you perform the procedures described in this section.

  • The HCL HTTP Server and the HCL HTTP Server plugins must be installed on the server machine on which you plan to create the WebSphere Deployment Manager profile is being created. The HCL HTTP Server is included with WebSphere at no charge.
  • The HCL HTTP Server is up and running.