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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.
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.
Additional configuration for enhanced security
The procedures in this section describe some additional configurations in the web application server. They are optional, but you might want to perform them for enhanced security.

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.
    - To change default password settings
      Unica provides default settings for using passwords. However, you can use the General > Password settings category on the Unica Configuration page to change the default settings, and create your password policies.
    - Set the web application session timeout (optional)
      The session timeout determines how long an inactive HTTP session can remain open before it expires.
    - Additional configuration for enhanced security
      The procedures in this section describe some additional configurations in the web application server. They are optional, but you might want to perform them for enhanced security.
      - Disabling the X-Powered-By flag
        If your organization is concerned that the X-Powered-By flag in the header variable is a security risk, you can disable it using this procedure.
      - Configuring a restrictive cookie path
        In your web application server, you can restrict cookie access to a specific application for enhanced security. If not restricted, cookies are valid across all the deployed applications.
    - Disabling caching of Unica Campaign and Unica Platform configuration property values
      If you encounter an issue where configuration properties are not being picked up by Unica Campaign or Unica Platform, you can disable caching as described in this procedure.
    - Enabling single-user logging
    - Collecting installations logs
      When you install any Marketing Software product, the installation logs for that particular installation are bundled and exported. Use the Installer utility to collect the logs for any of the Marketing Software product that are installed.
  - Installing Unica Platform in a 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.

Additional configuration for enhanced security

The procedures in this section describe some additional configurations in the web application server. They are optional, but you might want to perform them for enhanced security.

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