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Unica Journey integrations
Kafka integration
You must configure Kafka in Unica Platform for the Journey node.

Administrator's Guide
- An Introduction to Unica Journey
  Unica Journey is a goal-based orchestration solution to craft, execute, and visualize context-driven, personalized, multi-step omnichannel customer experiences.
- Unica Journey integrations
  - An Introduction to Unica Deliver
    Unica Deliver is a web-based, enterprise scale marketing message solution that you can use to conduct outbound bulk messaging and transactional messaging campaigns. Deliver integrates with Unica Campaign and with secure message composition, transmission, and tracking resources that are hosted by Unica.
  - Unica Deliver integration
    To integrate Unica Deliver with Unica Journey, you must make the following configurations inUnica Platform.
  - Kafka integration
    You must configure Kafka in Unica Platform for the Journey node.
  - Kafka Replication to Partition
- Process of Starting and Stopping Journey
- Journey user roles and permissions
  Before you begin using Unica Journey, you should assign roles and permissions to users.
- Journey interaction logging
  Interaction Logging for Journey is executed as a scheduled job. The scheduling parameters are set in application.properties file of the Journey Engine. The following is an example of the setting:
- Journey logging
  In Journey version 12.1.2 and earlier, the property JOURNEY_LOGGING, in the journey_master_config.properties file, was only used for tracing the audience.
- Journey Records Validation
  When records enter a Journey, users can set validation on the records.
- Journey GDPR
- Kafka authentication using SSL
- Configure Web Application servers Tomcat for SSL
  On every application server on which a Unica application is deployed, configure the web application server to use the certificates you have decided to employ.
- Mailchimp Configuration
  Configuration of Mailchimp as external source with Journey.
- Settings
  Use the settings menu to manage the Journey integrations like Email connectors, SMS connectors, CRM connections, and REST integrations.

Kafka integration

You must configure Kafka in Unica Platform for the Journey node.

Accessing Kafka_Configurations in Unica Platform

To access Kafka_Configurations, complete the following steps:

On Unica Platform, navigate to Settings > Configuration.
Expand the Journey node.
Select Kafka_Configurations.
Select Edit settings.

Mandatory configurations based on CommunicationMechanism value

In the (Kafka_Configurations) page, you can select one of the following values for the CommunicationMechanism field:

NO_SASLPLAINTEXT_SSL
SASL_PLAINTEXT
SSL
SASL_PLAINTEXT_SSL

Based on your selection, the following fields become mandatory:


Field name	NO_SASLPLAIN TEXT_SSL	SASL_PLAIN TEXT	SSL	SASL_PLAIN TEXT_SSL
KafkaBrokerURL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
TopicName	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
sasl.mechanism		Yes		Yes
UserForKafkaData		Yes	Yes	Yes
sasl.jaas.config.data Source		Yes		Yes
truststore.location			Yes	Yes
truststore.password.data Source			Yes	Yes
keystore.location			Yes	Yes
keystore.password.data Source			Yes	Yes
key.password.dataSource			Optional	Optional
ssl.endpoint.identification. algorithm			Yes	Yes

Make the necessary configurations and click Save changes.

Note: Running out of disk storage and abruptly shut down the kafka server due to the large size of kafka logs file.

Note: Once an audience type is used for configuration, then it cannot be used again for other configurations. While configuring CIF if one audience type is used, then same audience type cannot be used again in the same entry source.

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