Prerequisites for Unica Journey Installation or Upgrade

Before installing Unica Journey version 12.1.4, you have to ensure that a few prerequisites are met.

About this task

If a you are a new user, and if you have HCL OneDB, MariaDB, or Microsoft SQL Server as the database, you can directly install Unica Journey 12.1.4. Ensure that Unica Platform version 12.1.4 is operating correctly.

The supported upgrade path for Unica Journey 12.1.4 are as follows:
Table 1. This table describes the topics that are included in the Unica Journey Upgrade Guide and the list of sub-topics in the second column.
Base Journey version Upgrade path Tasks to be performed
In case of Oracle, the base Unica Journey can be:
  • 12.1.x
  • 12.1.0.x

In case of Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB and OneDB, the base version is 12.1.0.3 and later.

 In case of Oracle, the upgrade path can be:
  • 12.1.x → 12.1.4
  • 12.1.0.x → 12.1.4
In case of Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB and OneDB, the upgrade path is:
  • 12.1.0.x → 12.1.4
  1. Upgrade Unica Marketing Platform to 12.1.4
  2. Run upgrade Unica Journey to 12.1.4 installer
  3. Configure Journey application
  4. Deploy Journey application
  5. Run Journey application
Clean Installing Journey on existing Unica environment when you have system tables as OneDB, MariaDB and SQL Server databases In place upgrade to Unica Journey 12.1.4
  1. Upgrade Unica Marketing Platform and required Unica products to 12.1.4 except Journey.
  2. Run clean installer of Unica Journey 12.1.4
  3. Configure Journey application
  4. Deploy Journey application
  5. Run Journey application
Note:
  1. If Journey is not already installed on an existing Unica environment with Oracle database, install Unica Journey version 12.1.0 and upgrade to Unica Journey version 12.1.4. If Journey is already installed and the Journey version is 12.1.0, follow the upgrade path mentioned in the earlier table.
  2. If you do not have Journey already installed on existing Unica environment with either MS SQL Server, OneDB or MariaDB database then you can install Journey version 12.1.4 directly as clean install.

To prerequisites for installation, or upgrade, of Unica Journey are as follows:

Procedure

  1. Ensure that all users are logged out.
  2. Stop Unica Journey, Unica Platform, and all applications that are deployed with it. Also, stop all other components, for example Journey Engine, Kafka server, etc.
  3. Undeploy Unica Platform and Unica Journey web application from the application server.
  4. Stop the application server and clean the application server cache.
  5. Back up the Unica Platform and Unica Journey database and file system directory to any temporary directory.