Configuring the system user that accesses HCL Unica hosted services

Deliver components in Campaign must be able to access HCL Unica hosted services automatically, without prompting for a login. System users that are configured in Unica Platform can reference a data source that provides the required user name and password. You can add the data source to a new system user or to an existing system user. To simplify user administration, you can update a system user that is already configured to access the Campaign schema so that it can also access HCL Unica hosted services.

Before you begin

To complete this task, you must know the HCL Unica hosted services user name and password that Unica assigned to your hosted email account. Receiving the user name and password is part of the account startup process.

You must have the appropriate access permissions and know how to create system users and data sources in the Unica Platform.

About this task

Note: If your installation contains multiple partitions, you must complete this task for each partition. You cannot share system users across partitions.

Procedure

  1. Create a Platform data source to contain the user name and password that is required to access HCL Unica hosted services. For best results and easier maintenance, name this data source UNICA_HOSTED_SERVICES. Configure this data source as follows.

    For Data Source Login, enter the user name that you received from Unica during account startup.

    For Data Source Password, enter the password that you received Unica during account startup.

  2. Specify the data source in the Deliver configuration. Use the amDataSourceForAcctCredentials configuration property.

    The configuration property is at Deliver > partitions > partition[n] > hostedAccountInfo > amDataSourceForAcctCredentials.

    By default, the specified data source is UNICA_HOSTED_SERVICES.

  3. Specify a system user to access HCL Unica hosted services. You can specify an existing user or create a user. In the Deliver configuration, use the amUserForAcctCredentials configuration property.

    The configuration property is at Deliver > partitions > partition[n] > hostedAccountInfo > amUserForAcctCredentials.

    By default, the specified user is asm_admin.

  4. Add the data source that is configured in Step 1 to the system user specified in Step 3.

What to do next

You must restart the web application server for the configuration changes to take effect.