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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.
Installing Unica Platform in a cluster
Creating a WebSphere profile for the primary node of a cluster
Follow these guidelines to create a WebSphere profile for the primary node of a Unica Platform cluster.

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.
  - Planning the Unica Platform installation
    When you plan your Unica Platform installation, you must ensure that you have set up your system correctly, and that you have configured your environment to deal with any failures.
  - Creating the Unica Platform data sources
    You must create Unica Platform data sources before you can install Unica Platform.
  - Installing Platform
    You must run the Unica installer to start the installation of Unica Platform. The Unica installer starts the Unica Platform installer during the installation process. Make sure that the Unica installer and the product installer are saved at the same location.
  - Deploying Platform
    You must follow a set of guidelines when you deploy Unica Platform in your web application server. There is a different set of guidelines for deploying Unica Platform on WebLogic and on WebSphere®.
  - Configuring Platform after deployment
    For a basic installation of Unica Platform, you must configure Unica Platform after deployment if you use the Unica reporting feature, or if you want to use a password policy.
  - Installing Unica Platform in a cluster
    - Creating a WebSphere profile for the primary node of a cluster
      Follow these guidelines to create a WebSphere profile for the primary node of a Unica Platform cluster.
      - Creating profiles for additional nodes
        Follow these guidelines to create additional nodes for a Unica Platform cluster.
      - Adding existing nodes to the cluster nodes
        Optionally, you can add your existing WebSphere profiles as nodes in the cluster environment.
      - Creating a WebSphere cluster
        Use the WebSphere Deployment Manager profile to create the cluster.
      - Creating the web server in the cluster
        The HTTP Server can be configured to connect with the nodes in the cluster and serve as a load balancer.
      - Starting the nodes, web server, and cluster
        Start the nodes, HTTP Server, and cluster, in that order.
      - Creating JDBC providers in a cluster
        Creating JDBC providers is slightly different in a clustered environment than in a non-clustered environment.
      - Installing Marketing Software products in a cluster
        Follow the installation guide for your Unica product to install and deploy the product, with the additional configuration described in this procedure.
      - Configuring the HTTP Server as a load balancer
        Follow these steps to configure the HTTP Server as a load balancer with Unica Platform.
      - Configure property to control the Scheduler in a clustered environment
        In a clustered environment, the various instances of the IBM EMM Scheduler provided by Unica Platform all run scheduling tasks, which can result in conflicts. To prevent the conflict, disable the Scheduler on all nodes except one.
    - Configuring Unica Platform logs in a cluster
      You can generate logs for each node where you deploy Unica Platform. You can specify different logging levels for each node in your cluster.
    - Installing Unica Platform in a Tomcat cluster
  - Deploying Asset Picker
  - Unica Platform utilities
    This section provides an overview of the Unica Platform utilities, including some details that apply to all the utilities and which are not included in the individual utility descriptions.
  - About Platform SQL scripts
    This section describes the SQL scripts provided with Unica Platform to perform various tasks relating to the Unica Platform system tables.
  - Uninstalling Unica Platform
    Run the Unica Platform uninstaller to uninstall Unica Platform. 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.

Creating a WebSphere profile for the primary node of a cluster

Follow these guidelines to create a WebSphere profile for the primary node of a Unica Platform cluster.

About this task

Perform the following steps in the WebSphere profile creation wizard.

See the following video for a demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RREp9n2Yy_o

Procedure

Select Cell (Deployment manager and a federated application server) as the type.
On the Web Server Definition Part 1 screen, do the following.
1. Select Create a Web Server definition.
2. Select HCL HTTP Server as the web server type.
3. Enter the web server name.
  
  In a later step you create a web server in the cluster using this name.
  
  Examples in this guide use IMPWebServer as the web server name.
4. Enter the web server host and port.
On the Web Server Definition Part 2 screen, do the following.
1. Web server installation directory path
2. Web server plug-in installation directory path

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