Deploying Unica Campaign on Tomcat Application Server

Use the following guidelines when you deploy Unica Campaign on Tomcat:

  • HCL Unica products customize the JVM used by Tomcat. You may require to create a Tomcat instance that is dedicated to HCL Unica products if you encounter JVM-related errors
  • If you are deploying in a production environment, set the JVM memory heap size parameters to at least 1024 by adding the following line to the setenv.bat/sh e.g : set CATALINA_OPTS=%CATALINA_OPTS% -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m.

    These are the suggested minimum values. Analyze your sizing requirements to determine correct values for your needs. Depending upon system load -Xmx value should be adjusted. Note that a 64-bit application server and JVM are usually necessary for values greater than 2048.

  • Modify the JAVA_OPTIONS parameter to add the following value in setenv.bat/sh.

    set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -DUNICA_PLATFORM_CACHE_ENABLED=true -Dclient.encoding.override=UTF-8.

  • When Unica Insights war is deployed on Tomcat, complete the following configuration in server.xml, where Campaign.war is deployed.
    Add relaxedQueryChars under Campaign server.xml as mentioned below.
    <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
    connectionTimeout="20000"
    redirectPort="8443"
    relaxedQueryChars="|,[,],\,`,{,},^" />
  • You must add Unica Platform and Unica Campaign data source in Campaign.xml along with the path of Campaign.war to the Unica Campaign Tomcat instance. For example:
    
    <Context docBase="<Campaign_Install_Path>/Campaign/Campaign.war">
    <Resource name="<UnicaPlatformDS>" factory="com.unica.manager.tomcat.utils.TomcatDSFactory" auth="Application" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
    maxActive="30" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000"
    username="<db user for Platform schema>" password="<db password>" driverClassName=
    "<db specific class name>" url="<db specific jdbc url>"/>
    
    <Resource name="<campaignPartition1DS>" factory="com.unica.manager.tomcat.utils.TomcatDSFactory" auth="Application" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
    maxActive="30" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000"
    username="<db user for Campaign schema>" password="<db password>" driverClassName=
    "<db specific class name>" url="<db specific jdbc url> </Context>"/>
    
    

This parameter is to increase the size of the HTTP request to avoid campaign flowchart crashes that exceed the default size supported by Tomcat.

Please include below parameters in the <TOMCAT_HOME>/<Campaign_Instance>/conf/server.xml file.
  • maxHttpHeaderSize="209715200"
  • maxPostSize="-1"