Technote (troubleshooting)

Problem (Abstract)

To use the Deliver components installed with Unica Campaign and send personalized marketing messages, you must connect the local Campaign installation to remote message resources hosted by HCL. This section describes how to configure such a connection when your corporate firewall rules prohibit direct communication with the hosted environment.

Resolving the problem

Typical communication with the hosted email resources environment

The following diagram illustrates the standard configuration for communication between the On Premises (OP) environment and On Demand (OD) environment.

The local Deliver OP environment requires external communication with Deliver OD environment using HTTPS and FTPes (explicit FTP) or FTPs (implicit FTP). This section uses the term FTPS to refer both explicit and implicit FTP.

The OP environment includes a web application server (either IBM WebSphere or Oracle WebLogic) on which you have deployed Campaign. Campaign hosts the Deliver components (RCT and RLU) that communicate with the hosted email resources in the OD environment.

The Response and Contact Tracker (RCT) downloads response data from the OD environment.

The Response List Uploader (RLU) uploads mailing lists and other required mailing data to the OD environment.

When the machine where Unica Deliver is installed cannot communicate directly with OD environment, Deliver supports communication with the hosted OD resources through a SOCKS proxy.