Configuring a system user to access IBM Hosted Services

IBM eMessage components must be able to access the IBM Hosted Services without requiring manual entry of login credentials. To establish automatic login, define a system user in Unica Platform that can provide the required access credentials.

To simplify user administration and troubleshooting, you can modify an existing system user to access hosted services and local system tables. You can configure a single system user to provide credentials for multiple systems. For example, modifying the configuration of the Unica Campaign system user creates a single user that can automatically access IBM Hosted Services and the IBM eMessage system tables in the Unica Campaign schema.

The credentials required to access IBM Hosted Services are the user name and password that IBM provides for your hosted messaging account.

For specific information about how to configure a system user to communicate with IBM Hosted Services, see the IBM eMessage Startup and Administrator's Guide.

For general information about how to create system users and data sources, see the Unica Platform Administrator's Guide.

Configuring partition access to IBM Hosted Services

IBM eMessage components in the partition must be allowed to automatically provide valid login credentials when attempting to communicate with IBM Hosted Services. To do this, you must add the IBM Hosted Services login credentials to a Unica Platform user. This user becomes the IBM eMessage system user.

You can add the platform data source containing the IBM Hosted Services credentials to the IBM eMessage system user. This user can be the same system user that accesses the Unica Campaign system tables in the partition.

The steps for configuring system users for a partition are the same as those followed during the initial IBM eMessage installation, which created the first partition. For details about how to add login credentials to a system user, see the IBM eMessage Startup and Administrator's Guide.

The credentials required to access IBM Hosted Services are the user name and password that IBM provided during the initial startup process.

Important: For each additional partition, you must request a separate user name and password from IBM.