Home
Administrator Guides
Startup and Administrator Guide
Connecting to hosted email services
To access message services provided by Unica, you must configure a connection between the local HCL Unica installation and HCL Unica hosted services.
About uploading data to HCL Unica Hosted Services
Connection through an HTTP proxy
If your corporate firewall rules prohibit direct communication with the public Internet, you can connect to HCL Unica through an HTTP proxy server. Deliver supports connecting through a SOCKS proxy server that allows both HTTPS and SFTP traffic.

Administrator Guides
- Startup and Administrator Guide
  - Hosted messaging using Campaign and Deliver
    When Unica Campaign is integrated with Unica Deliver, you can use Deliver to conduct highly personalized digital marketing campaigns.
  - Configuring the local HCL Unica environment for Deliver
  - Connecting to hosted email services
    To access message services provided by Unica, you must configure a connection between the local HCL Unica installation and HCL Unica hosted services.
    - Requirements for configuring connection to HCL Unica Hosted Services
      Configuring a connection to HCL Unica hosted services requires administrative permissions and information about the hosted account established for your organization.
    - Configuring addresses for connecting to HCL Unica hosted services
      To ensure proper connection to HCL Unica hosted services, you must enter the addresses as values for configuration properties in the Deliver configuration. The connection addresses that you enter depend on whether you are connecting to the Unica data center in US, Europe or India.
    - IP address of Deliver host names
    - About uploading data to HCL Unica Hosted Services
      - Connection and port requirements
        To communicate with HCL Unica hosted services, you must have a connection to the Internet. HCL Unica hosted services use specific ports.
      - Whitelisting IP
      - Upload connection by SFTP
      - Configuring SFTP
      - Connection through an HTTP proxy
        If your corporate firewall rules prohibit direct communication with the public Internet, you can connect to HCL Unica through an HTTP proxy server. Deliver supports connecting through a SOCKS proxy server that allows both HTTPS and SFTP traffic.
        Configuring routing for SFTP and HTTPS traffic through a SOCKS proxy
        To use a SOCKS proxy to access the hosted email resources, you must update the web application server where you deployed Campaign. You must also modify the startup scripts for the Deliver RCT and RLU.
        Configuring authentication to access a SOCKS proxy
        If your SOCKS proxy requires authentication, you must configure the web application server, RLU, and RCT to provide the access credentials.
        Configuring the RCT to use a SOCKS proxy
        You must modify the RCT to communicate through a SOCKS proxy server. The required settings depend on your operating system.
        Configuring the RLU to use a SOCKS proxy
        You must modify the RLU to communicate through a SOCKS proxy server. The required settings depend on your operating system.
        Configuring the web application server to use a SOCKS proxy
        To connect to HCL Unica through a SOCKS proxy, you must modify the configuration of the web application server. For Unica WebSphere® servers, you modify the generic JVM arguments. For Oracle Weblogic servers, you modify the SetDomainEnv script.
    - About downloading data from HCL Unica Hosted Services
    - Configuring a system user to access HCL Unica Hosted Services
      Deliver components must be able to access the HCL Unica hosted services without requiring manual entry of login credentials. To establish automatic login, define a system user in Platform that can provide the required access credentials.
    - Configuring secure communication for hosted email
      Communications between the email marketer and HCL Unica hosted services occur over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). You must change the web application server configuration to use SSL. Making the required changes requires using the Java™ keytool utility.
    - Deploying Campaign in Tomcat or JBOSS
  - Working with the Response and Contact Tracker
    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 .
  - Testing the Deliver installation
    To ensure access to all hosted email features, test the configurations and connections for your Campaign and Deliver installations after you enable Deliver, expand your Deliver installation, or upgrade the Campaign installation.
  - Unica Deliver REST APIs
    Deliver has exposed REST APIs which can be used to perform variety of operations like working with Email, SMS, Push, WhatsApp messages and communication templates, working with batch production and test message sending as well as transactional message sending. This chapter provides details of these APIs, how to authenticate and generate API token which is needed to call these APIs.
  - Configurations for Unica Deliver
    The Unica Platform provides various configuration properties to modify the behavior and appearance of Deliver. Some configuration properties are set during installation. You can change configuration properties at any time.
  - Utilities for Deliver
    Deliver provides several scripts that you use to administer Deliver functions.
  - About troubleshooting Deliver
    Unica Deliver provides various tools and techniques that you can use to investigate issues related to your Campaign and Deliver installations.
  - Managing user access to mailing features
    Campaign and Deliver use roles and permissions provided by the Unica Platform to control user access to messaging features in Deliver and Campaign. You must have permissions in Unica Platform and Campaign to make the required changes. You must also be familiar with how to configure roles and permissions in the Platform and how to define security policies for Campaign.
  - Technote (troubleshooting)
  - Deliver channel vendor account configuration
- Transactional Message Administrator Guide

Connection through an HTTP proxy

If your corporate firewall rules prohibit direct communication with the public Internet, you can connect to HCL Unica through an HTTP proxy server. Deliver supports connecting through a SOCKS proxy server that allows both HTTPS and SFTP traffic.

Deliver supports SOCKS Protocol Version 5.

The following diagram illustrates communication between the local and hosted environments when you use a SOCKS proxy.

You configure the SOCKS proxy server in the local On Premises environment. Before you begin configuring the proxy server, confirm that you satisfy the following requirements.

The proxy server must be a SOCKS proxy server.
The proxy server must be able to access the Deliver OD environment. The server must allow traffic to and from the ports that are configured for the data center that is used by your hosted email account. Unica maintains data centers in the United States, Europe, and India.
The Deliver OP environment must be able to access the SOCKS proxy server.

Rate this topic

5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star

Comment on this topic.

By clicking this box, you acknowledge that you are NOT a U.S. Federal Government employee or agency, nor are you submitting information with respect to or on behalf of one. HCL provides software and services to U.S. Federal Government customers through its partners immixGroup, Inc. Contact this team at https://hcltechsw.com/resources/us-government-contact. Do not include any personal data in this Comment box.