Response and Contact Tracker operation

The Response and Contact Tracker (RCT) is installed in your local environment and communicates with HCL Unica hosted services to retrieve and process data for email contacts, email delivery, and recipient responses, such as link clicks and opens. The RCT must be running in order to retrieve link tracking and email delivery notification data from HCL Unica hosted services .

You can start the RCT in either of the following ways.

  • Start the RCT manually .
  • Start the RCT as a service
Important: You must start the RCT manually the first time you use Deliver, even if you registered the RCT as a service.

You must restart the RCT when you make changes to configuration properties for Deliver. You can restart the RCT at any time, even if you have configured it to run as a service. HCL Unica hosted services continue to store tracking data if the RCT is shut down or restarting. When it resumes operation, the RCT downloads the queued information.