Platform installation worksheet

Use the Platform installation worksheet to gather information about the Platform database and about other HCL® Marketing Software products that are required for the installation of Platform.

Use the following table to gather information about the database that contains your Platform system tables:

Table 1. Information about the database

This two-columned table provides a checklist of the various types of information that you must gather about the database in the first column, and provides space to note the information in the second column.
Field Notes®
Database type
Database name
Database account user name
Database account password
JNDI name UnicaPlatformDS
ODBC name

Checklist for Marketing Platform database

The installation wizards for each HCL Marketing Software product must be able to communicate with the Marketing Platform system table database to register the product. Each time that you run the installer, you must enter the following database connection information for the Marketing Platform system table database:
  • Database type
  • JDBC connection URL
  • Database host name
  • Database port
  • Database name or schema ID
  • User name and password for the database account

Checklist for HCL® Marketing Platform deployment on the web application server

Obtain the following information before deploying Marketing Platform:
  • Protocol: HTTP or HTTPS if SSL is implemented in the web application server.
  • Host: The name of the machine on which the Marketing Platform will be deployed.
  • Port: The port on which the web application server listens.
  • Domain name: The company domain of each machine where HCL products are installed. For example, mycompany.com. All HCL products must be installed in the same company domain, and you must enter the domain name in all lower-case letters.

    If there is a mis-match in domain name entries, you may encounter problems when you attempt to use Marketing Platform features or navigate among products. You can change the domain name after the products are deployed by logging in and changing values of the relevant configuration properties in the product navigation categories on the Settings > Configuration page.

Checklist for enabling Marketing Platform utilities

If you plan to use the Marketing Platform utilities, obtain the following JDBC connection information before you start to install the Marketing Platform.

  • Path to the JRE. The default value is the path to the 1.7 version of the JRE that the installer places under your HCL installation directory.

    You can accept this default or specify a different path. If you specify a different path, you must point to the 1.7 or 1.8 version of the Sun JRE.

  • JDBC driver class. The installer automatically provides this, based on the database type you specifiy in the installer.
  • JDBC connection URL. The installer provides the basic syntax, including the host name, database name, and port. You can customize the URL by adding additional parameters.
  • JDBC driver classpath on your system.

Information about the web component

Obtain the following information for all HCL Marketing Software products that have a web component, which you deploy on a web application server:
  • The name of the systems on which the web application servers are installed. You can have one or several web application servers, depending on the HCL Marketing Software environment that you are setting up.
  • The port on which the application server listens. If you plan to implement SSL, obtain the SSL port.
  • The network domain for your deployment system. For example, mycompany.com.

HCL Site ID

If you are installing an HCL Marketing Software product in one of the countries listed on the Country for Install screen of your product installer, you must enter your HCL Site ID in the space provided. Your HCL Site ID can be found on one of the following documents:
  • HCL Welcome letter
  • Tech Support Welcome letter
  • Proof of Entitlement letter
  • Other communications that are sent when you purchase your software
HCL may use the data that is provided by the installed software to better understand how customers use our products and to improve customer support. The data that is gathered does not include any information that identifies individuals. Complete the following actions if you do not want to have such information to be collected:
  1. After Marketing Platform is installed, log on to Marketing Platform as a user with administration privileges.
  2. Go to Settings > Configuration, and set the Disable Page Tagging property under the Platform category to True.